Crackdowns have caused many to abandon dissident politics entirely. But despair has led some to consider more radical methods
In a Warsaw safehouse, one dissident preparing to return to Belarus fidgeted nervously with a lighter. “We are waiting, but we don’t know what we are waiting for,” he complained. “Everyone is frustrated. Everyone is scared.” Crackdowns have caused many to abandon the dangerous game of dissident politics entirely. That despair has, however, led some to consider more radical methods.
So they have set about creating that army themselves. In December the Cyber Partisans merged with the Kastus Kalinousky Regiment, Belarusian volunteers who are fighting the Russians in Ukraine. The Cyber Partisans say they are using terabytes-worth of hacked data to help Ukraine and some Western countries root out Russian and Belarusian spies.
“Belarusians need to be prepared,” says Pavel Kutkha, a recruiter for the Kalinousky Regiment in Warsaw, with boxes of equipment destined for his soldiers fighting in eastern Ukraine’s stronghold of Bakhmut stacked around him. “The only way Belarus will change is through force. If we want to be free, we have to win our freedom with weapons and blood.
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