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Дзень Волі ў Беларусь = Freedom Day/Independence Day in Belarus (Belarusian)

Omg, I finally finished this drawing for 3 monthes later, shot.

I wanted to draw something for Belarus' "real" independence day, March 25, but school was killing me these past couple of months. Thankfully, I graduated high school and I had loads of free time to finish this drawing.

This picture is based on this poster that celebrates Belarus' independence from the Russian Empire on March 25, 1918. However, sadly this newborn country called the Belarusian People's Republic (BNR) or Белару́ская Наро́дная Рэспу́бліка (БНР)* only existed for less than a year because the Soviets captured Minsk, the capital, and installed a communist regime called the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic (BSSR) or Беларуская Савецкая Сацыялістычная Рэспубліка (БССР). The outfit Belarus is wearing is based off of the girl's outfit in the picture.

I find it sad that Belarus doesn't officially celebrate it's real independence day, but I'm not surprised since Lukashenko seems to hate anything that would give Belarus an identity that deviates from its soviet past. This is why he moved the independence day to July 3 to celebrate the liberation of Minsk by the Soviets from the Nazis (not that this isn't an important holiday, but it helps dilute Belarus' history outside of the soviet period and helps Lukashenko's mission of russifying the Belarusian state). I hope one day, Belarus will be free from the dictator that controls her right now. Until then, it's up to good patriots like to continue to use and promote the Belarusian language and culture so that it doesn't die out and so that future generations of Belarus can continue to preserve the culture.

*Contrary to what one would probably assume, the BNR WAS NOT a communist state. The naming might throw some people off because a lot of communist states were officially called "the People's Republic of ...." (eg. Poland, North Korea, Romania, Hungary, China, etc). To help distinguish itself from similarly named communist republics, the BNR was also known as the "Belarusian Democratic Republic".

*Edit*: I forgot to say, I'm sososo stupid because I forgot to draw the Pahonia on the coat of arms in the top left hand corner because I had already started making the lineart before I realized my mistake. So, sorry about that....

Hetalia does not belong to me. It belongs to Himaruya Hidekaz.
The art belongs to me.

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Дзень Волі ў Беларусь = Freedom Day/Independence Day in Belarus (Belarusian)

Omg, I finally finished this drawing for 3 monthes later, shot.

I wanted to draw something for Belarus' "real" independence day, March 25, but school was killing me these past couple of months. Thankfully, I graduated high school and I had loads of free time to finish this drawing.

This picture is based on this poster that celebrates Belarus' independence from the Russian Empire on March 25, 1918. However, sadly this newborn country called the Belarusian People's Republic (BNR) or Белару́ская Наро́дная Рэспу́бліка (БНР)* only existed for less than a year because the Soviets captured Minsk, the capital, and installed a communist regime called the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic (BSSR) or Беларуская Савецкая Сацыялістычная Рэспубліка (БССР). The outfit Belarus is wearing is based off of the girl's outfit in the picture.

I find it sad that Belarus doesn't officially celebrate it's real independence day, but I'm not surprised since Lukashenko seems to hate anything that would give Belarus an identity that deviates from its soviet past. This is why he moved the independence day to July 3 to celebrate the liberation of Minsk by the Soviets from the Nazis (not that this isn't an important holiday, but it helps dilute Belarus' history outside of the soviet period and helps Lukashenko's mission of russifying the Belarusian state). I hope one day, Belarus will be free from the dictator that controls her right now. Until then, it's up to good patriots like to continue to use and promote the Belarusian language and culture so that it doesn't die out and so that future generations of Belarus can continue to preserve the culture.

*Contrary to what one would probably assume, the BNR WAS NOT a communist state. The naming might throw some people off because a lot of communist states were officially called "the People's Republic of ...." (eg. Poland, North Korea, Romania, Hungary, China, etc). To help distinguish itself from similarly named communist republics, the BNR was also known as the "Belarusian Democratic Republic".

*Edit*: I forgot to say, I'm sososo stupid because I forgot to draw the Pahonia on the coat of arms in the top left hand corner because I had already started making the lineart before I realized my mistake. So, sorry about that....

Hetalia does not belong to me. It belongs to Himaruya Hidekaz.
The art belongs to me.