Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya Quotes
We have two options - to continue living in poverty and empty promises or build a Belarus that we deserve.
Tsikhanouskaya, Sviatlana. Televised Campaign Address. Belarus 1, National State Television and Radio Company of the Republic of Belarus, 21 July 2020.
Historically, there are two situations where major changes are made in societies: 1) After great crises—wars, depressions, plagues etc. 2) At times of great prosperity when people are feeling very generous and magnanimous.
What is also neglected very often is that America and the other developed nations exploited and destroyed much of their own environment in the process of developing yet they express concern that the lesser developed nations will do what they do.
Tibet and some other ethnic enclaves of China have been almost impervious to the general improvement in the standard of living that China accomplished at the end of the 20th century and beginning of the 21st. China is not the only nation to have this difficulty. Some would argue that America still has it with some of its Native American nations. The great challenge is trying to develop and modernize a culture that does not want to be modernized at the moment but still wants many of the benefits of modernization.
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Sviatlana Heorhiyeuna Tsikhanouskaya or Svetlana Georgiyevna Tikhanovskaya is a Belarusian human rights activist and politician who ran for the 2020 Belarusian presidential election as the main opposition candidate. She is married to activist Sergei Tikhanovsky, who was a candidate for the same election until his arrest on 29 May 2020; she subsequently announced her intention to run in his place.
