Zianion Pazniak, leader of Concervative-Christian Party BPF and currently an exile, called all Belarusians, whose hearts were beating for our fatherland, “Take a stand! Support our youth! Go out to the square! Enough of paranoid loutishness! Enough of the officials calling people “imbeciles,” “scoundrels,” “degenerates!” Enough of them trampling on our language, our holy flag, our Francysk Skaryna! Primitive groups of the society are not supposed to govern the cultural nation.”