Talaka
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Talaka was a cultural and enlightenment youth organisation in Belarus
under Soviet rule. It existed between 1985 and 1990 and was a predecessor and early part of the Perestroyka-inspired pro-independence movement in Soviet Belarus. Several key members of the Talaka later formed the Belarusian Popular Front.
Talaka was created in 1985 as an informal club for protection of historical architecture. Its creators were Siarzhuk Vitushka, Vintsuk Viachorka (later chairman of the Partyja BNF), Viktar Ivashkevich (later one of the leaders of the Belarusian Popular Front and the Partyja BNF) and several others.
The club organised celebration of traditional holidays, revived traditional ceremonies, participated in archaeologic research. It was active in Samizdat
publishing. Towards end of the 1980s the group started to more actively participate in pro-democracy and pro-independence political activities.
Belarus
Belarus , officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, bordered clockwise by Russia to the northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Its capital is Minsk; other major cities include Brest, Grodno , Gomel ,...
under Soviet rule. It existed between 1985 and 1990 and was a predecessor and early part of the Perestroyka-inspired pro-independence movement in Soviet Belarus. Several key members of the Talaka later formed the Belarusian Popular Front.
Talaka was created in 1985 as an informal club for protection of historical architecture. Its creators were Siarzhuk Vitushka, Vintsuk Viachorka (later chairman of the Partyja BNF), Viktar Ivashkevich (later one of the leaders of the Belarusian Popular Front and the Partyja BNF) and several others.
The club organised celebration of traditional holidays, revived traditional ceremonies, participated in archaeologic research. It was active in Samizdat
Samizdat
Samizdat was a key form of dissident activity across the Soviet bloc in which individuals reproduced censored publications by hand and passed the documents from reader to reader...
publishing. Towards end of the 1980s the group started to more actively participate in pro-democracy and pro-independence political activities.