Item Summary

Belarus, September 01, 2006. A member of the unregistered oppositional youth organization "Malady Front" ("Young Front"), dressed as a medieval executioner, participates in a flash mob "executes" a textbook on the history of Belarus for 10th-grade students.

The action illustrates how the President of the Republic of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, treats the real Belarusian history.

In 2006, Nine members of "Malady Front" were prosecuted and held criminally responsible for activities carried out on behalf of the unregistered organization.

Descriptive Information

Title
Untitled-31
Sort Title
untitled-31
Creator of work
Liankevich, Andrei
Language
Belarusian
English
Date Created
09.01.2006
Format
Photographs
Rights Statement
In Copyright

Discovery Information

Subject
Arts and culture
Photography
Children and youth
Youth
Youth--Political activity
Politics and government
Protest movements
Geographic Subject
Belarus
Geographic Origin
Belarus

Physical Characteristics

Height
40
Width
60
Page Count
1
File Count
1

Institutional Information

Collection
The photography of Andrei Liankevich
Box number
Digital box #1
Folder number
31
Barcode
00000000000000
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/ephemera_folders/84c49daf-6205-43b5-afee-8eb74d773e0b/manifest