Tsikhanovskaya recalled that there is a bridge in his honor in New York, in almost every city in Poland there is Kosciuszko Street, and in Australia a Polish geographer even named the highest mountain in his honor.

"What about Belarus?

Almost nothing.

After all, he fought against Russia - "brothers" according to the official propaganda of the regime.

After all, he respected his native symbols, history, language and culture - and the regime wants to replace them with "Russian language", "Union state" and the history of Belarus since 1941.

Lukashenka's regime is an awareness of everything that Tadeusz Kosciushka fought against," Svetlana Tikhanovskaya believes.

According to the leader of the democratic forces of Belarus, the regime is trying to erase from the history of Belarus those who fight for the rights of Belarusians to live freely and not obey Russia.

"This is how they try to erase not only Kosciuszko, but also all Belarusian political prisoners and opponents of Lukashenka.

This list is endless.

Will we be able to preserve their memory?

It depends on us."

- convinced Tsikhanovskaya.

Born on the territory of modern Belarus, Andrei Tadevush Bonaventura Kosciushka took an active part in the American War of Independence (1775-1783).

Upon his return to his homeland, in 1794 he led the liberation uprising of the peoples of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth against the Russian Empire.