Andrei Zeltser: An Act of Resistance to the Dictatorship

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https://charter97.org/en/news/2021/10/1/439032/ Andrei Zeltser: An Act of Resistance to the Dictatorship Igor Yakovenko 1.10.2021, 21:08 22,370 He is a hero. Programmer Andrei Zeltser offered armed resistance to Lukashenka's Gestapo men who broke into his apartment, killed one of the attackers, and died. The legal side of the case would be obvious if there was a law in Belarus. The attackers were not in uniform, there was not even a district police officer with them, the programmer Zeltser did not receive any summons, so he had every right to offer any resistance to the thugs who burst in and defend his home, wife, and child. Moreover, when the attackers began to break down the door, Andrei Zeltser called the police and asked for help. Andrei Zeltser, as follows from posts on one of his accounts on Instagram, actively participated in the 2020 protests against the results of the presidential elections in Belarus and even wrote a kind of manifesto in which he called on those who disagree with the award of victory to Aliaksandr Lukashenka to “go to the end.” Perhaps it was because of this manifesto that they came to him. Andrei Zeltser had a choice: to submissively go to Lukashenka's prison, where torture and humiliation awaited him, or fight back and die a hero. He chose the second option. Lukashenka, intensifying repressions, pumping out the air of freedom from the country, is pushing Belarusians to the moment when many people will say: “I / WE are Andrey Zeltser.”