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Anatol Kotau (former employee of the Presidential Administration):

"As for elections, this day was almost normal.

The same crackling glasses at the sites, the same music, but the people were different.

There was real interest to come and vote.

Secondly, despite the restrictions, people were wearing white ribbons and white clothes.

There were attempts to observe the process.

For the first time in 6 campaigns, after the 1990s, there was serious curiosity about the political process.

Maybe it's a little naive hope that the situation in the country can be changed through voting, if it is shown that the majority of people are against it."

Andrei Astapovich (former investigator of the Investigative Committee):

"On August 9, reinforcements began at 9 a.m., we arrived at work at 8 a.m., all in uniform.

Our uniform is combat blue, more similar to riot police.

At the same time, we were not given weapons, there are none in the SC building.

For the whole department, with 30-25 people, maybe 3-4 pistols were issued.

That is, if something happened, they would fight back in turn.

When the commotion started, around 7 p.m., until 1 a.m., we were all in the department, the investigators did not go anywhere, and our department is separate from the police, that is, we are in a separate building.

I don't think we would have been able to retake this building if the protesters had attacked us.

55-60% female composition.

Here it was just so that everyone was in one place, so that these same people could not go to rallies."

Alexander Azarov (former employee of GUBAZiK and teacher of the Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs):

"Protests started already when reports with falsified data began to be posted.

And then people became indignant.

At our station, they did not attack the employees, they just stood there and demanded that the reports be posted.

The commissions left them and said: you will hang them when we leave.

And reinforcements were called, cars arrived for each committee, a separate car and they were escorted away, and only then were the final reports posted.

And only when they arrived at the executive committee, they started talking about the beginning of protests and riots in the city.

We began to call our colleagues in other departments, and everyone began to tell me that everything was falsified everywhere, and they openly admitted this to their people as chairmen or members of election committees.

No one counted in their area at all, they wrote the numbers that the head of the commission said."

Svetlana Tsikhanovskaya (former presidential candidate):

"The regime probably did not expect such a number of people - they simply lost contact with Belarusians, they did not catch the mood of the people, they did not catch the changes that took place during this time, that a new generation grew up, that we have sources of information that help us understand that we can live well, we are a wonderful country with wonderful people, and we have room to move forward.

The Telegram channels that covered these events, I'll actually say for myself - I didn't follow the Telegram channels then, I didn't know who... what they were writing about.

You were just then in this process, meeting, communicating with people - that was it, your reality."

Svetlana Alexievich (writer):

"On the 23rd or 24th hour, I went to the window (there are big windows), it was a nightmare, as if a war had started in the city.

And before that, the equipment was running.

There was a lot of technology.

As if this is not your city.

And it was scary.

This cannonade was very long.

The whole sky is like a fire, a flame.

They called me, another friend came and said: "This is war."

A neighbor came and said: "Look out the window, there's a war..." Military equipment was coming.

A lot.

Where is she going?

Looking around, she went into the yard to be ready there.

It was an unusual technique.

Not that water cannons, it was military equipment.

Armored personnel carriers with unusual machine guns.

I was in the war in Afghanistan and I didn't even see such equipment there.

There was a feeling that something had started."

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The war against the people in August 2020"

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