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.