So, as promised, in the framework of the project "Newspaper Age: Pages of Time" we read together the history of our country and people in the century-old newspapers.
We start with the most important event: announcement of the formation of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic on January 1, 1919 in Smolensk. The relevant Provisional Government’s Manifesto was released in the Zvezda newspaper on January 3, 1919 and in the Dzyannitsa newspaper published in Moscow on January 16. The document gave the go-ahead for the Belarus movement.
It was reported about the initiation of “suffering Belarus to the new free life”, equality of all Belarus citizens, cession of land from the large landowners and churches, as well as the announcement of all transport routes and means of communications, factories and banks to the Belarusian working class. The Dzyannitsa newspaper is also reporting about the enrollment of the children from Belarusian families living temporary in Petrograd (today: Saint-Petersburg, Russia) in first Belarusian school.
From today you also become free and fully legitimate owners of a free, independent Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic. (The Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic Government’s Manifesto)
