In the Lenin Shipyards in Gdansk, 17,000 striking workers shook the authority of the Polish Communist state. Forty years later, Belarus rose.
On 27 November 1920 Belarusian insurgents took on the Red Army. It shaped the nation’s identity — yet most Belarusians know little about it.
In 1940 a young girl, her brother and her father were taken from Vilnius to Siberia. Eleven chapters of exile, war and escape — told in her own words.
Putin’s drive to realise ambitions of Russia’s global power is now risking the destruction of Russia’s own infrastructure.
From the 1920 Slutsk Uprising to the protests of 2020 — and one family’s journey from Siberia to Palestine.
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Belarus Society
A personal account of courage and memory — one woman’s story that echoes the experience of an entire generation.
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Belarus Society
Having marked essays written by people of many nationalities, a pattern emerges in how we are taught to think — and what we are taught to avoid.
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Belarus Society
I pass the fence every day and things keep changing. A small daily protest in red and white, and the people who keep removing it.
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Belarus Society
Caught between the Kremlin’s embrace and his own people’s anger, Lukashenko faces choices with no good outcome.
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Belarus Society
Behind official statements and state television lies a very different reality on the streets of Minsk.
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Belarus Society
One man, one conscience, and the price of refusing to stay silent in a country that punishes dissent.
In 1940 a young girl, her brother and her father were deported from Vilnius to Siberia. This is her account — eleven chapters following the family through exile, the Polish Army, Persia, Iraq and finally Palestine.
Short documentaries and talks on Belarusian history and the people behind it.
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Danuta’s Story
Released from the gulag, Danuta’s family joins thousands of Poles enlisting in General Anders’ army.
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Danuta’s Story
A perilous crossing of the Caspian Sea — and the first taste of freedom on Persian soil.
Search and filter every article, including all eleven chapters of Danuta’s Story in English and Russian.
Browse the archive“In the Soviet narrative, the victims are forgotten as if they had never existed. These stories are here so that they are not.”
Alan Adamou writes about Belarus — its European heritage, its struggle for identity, and the fate of his own family under Soviet rule.
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