'Political wall' in Belarus will collapse, says opposition leader

Belarusian opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya made the comments to Euronews on the 35th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.

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00:00Berlin celebrates 35 years since the fall of the wall, a significant day, not just for

00:07Germany.

00:08Belarusian opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya has travelled to Berlin to mark the occasion.

00:14For many Belarusian citizens, the fall of the wall has a very special meaning, she says.

00:19For Belarusians, you know, Berlin Wall has very important symbolic meaning because this

00:24is what Belarusians to some extent experience at the moment.

00:29People in Belarus live under the constant threat of repressions imposed by Belarusian

00:34ruler Alexander Lukashenko, but only they themselves can stop him, says Tikhanovskaya.

00:41I'm fully sure that the wall in Belarus will collapse, but of course it depends on us Belarusians,

00:47but also on the world solidarity.

00:52A Berlin Wall, it didn't collapse by itself, just, you know, suddenly.

00:56It like was a monotonous work of many, many people at that time.

01:01Remaining united and persistent for a free Belarus.

01:06Change is often unexpected, but it has to be fought for, like the fall of the Berlin

01:11Wall 35 years ago.

01:14Diana Reznik, from Berlin, for Euronews.