Puskin left jail for Orsha battle field :: Charter'97 :: News

16 September in Orsha artist Ales Pushkin and youth activist Alyaksei Yanusheusky were released from remand jail. They had been convicted to 7 nights of arrest for minor disorderly conduct charges after being detained at the “Orsha Battle- 2007” bard song festival.

Around 11 a.m. activists from Minsk and Orsha arrived to meet Ales Pushkin and Alyaksei Yanushkevich at the remand jail.

But the militiamen decided to break their meeting and guarded the artist and youth activist to the Orsha railway station ahead of time. The released were found only in the train.

Ales Pushkin asked his friends to take him to the Krapivinskaya field were the “Orsha Battle- 2007” bard song festival was to take place last weekend.

16 September the access to the field of the glorious Orsha battle of 1514 was free. There were no traces of the 3 days-long mine clearance actions.

Ales Pushkin told the Radio Svaboda that he had intended to visit the place before going home.

“We all have families, spouses and children , but we also have Belarus and the priorities that everyone chooses for himself .That is why , firstly, to the Krapivinskaya field and then to my wife , children, to painting, to digging potatoes, to making a stained-glass window in the Talochin Catholic Church.

Poet from Orsha Yauhenia Kazlova dedicated her poem about the Motherland and devotion to Belarus to the meeting with Ales Pushkin and Alyaksei Yanusheusky:

Our truth is sacred. We shall overcome trials,
Jails and deaths of fighters;
Truth is with us and God the Mighty saving us.
Our Republic is to become free again.

“God the Mighty” hymn was sung yesterday at the memorial cross erected at the Krapivinskaya field for commemoration of the Belarusian fighters perished here. The hymn usually opened the “Orsha Battle” annual bard song fests. Yesterday it was sung by those who had been prohibited to do that a week before on the Day of the Belarusian Military Glory.