Belarusian Popular Front Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description
Belarusian Popular Front "Revival" or BPF (Belarusian: Белару́скі Наро́дны Фронт "Адраджэ́ньне", БНФ) is a political party created in Belarus during the perestroika times. Its first and most charismatic leader was Zianon Pazniak.The main idea of the Front was the revival of the national idea. Initially its orientation was pro-Western, in particular, pro-Polish and anti-Russian. At one moment they propagated the idea of the union from the Baltic Sea to the Black Sea that would involve Ukraine, Poland, Belarus and Lithuania.
Initially the Front had significant visibility because of its active public actions that almost always ended in clashes with police and KGB. The BPF adopted the historical Belarusian symbolics: white-red-white flag and the Pahonya coat of arms . The same symbols were used by the unfortunate BNR. This fact allowed communists to label the BPF as "fascists". People used to get arrested in the street for wearing a white-red-white scarf.
Among the significant achievements of the Front was uncovering the truth about the burial site of Kurapaty near Minsk, where the NKVD performed its secret killings.
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