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This is not a guide to renaming Belarusian streets, squares and cities, although these names will certainly replace the surnames of communist vampires and imperial


werewolves on signs.

This is not a chronological guide, although hundreds of figures from the author's pantheon of the 18th-21st centuries appeared together for the first time in Svaboda (it was not possible to fit all of them under one cover).

This is not a monograph, although a new periodization of the national liberation movement is introduced here, criteria are developed, and classification is made.

This is not a documentary-archival study, although the dates, places and events have been verified, and many facts have been discovered and published for the first time.

This is not fiction or historical essays, although each chapter reads like lightning and impresses like a novel.

This is not a book of the dead, although it is composed of the destinies of people who are no longer among the living.

This is the author's encyclopedia of love for the homeland, freedom and independence.

This is the crown of our freedom.

Alexander Lukashuk, librarian of Svoboda