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Humanitarian Compass: https://t.me/peremenyiponimanie On February 19, representatives of the Central Belarusian Military Council of the Belarusian People's Republic (BNR), created (council) back in 1917, tried to establish their power in the city. On February 20, the Executive Committee of the Council of the All-Belarusian Congress published the 1st Charter, in which it announced the creation of the People's Secretariat of Belarus as a temporary government of the region. On the morning of the 21st, an advance detachment of German troops arrived by rail. At the station, they were met and greeted by representatives of the Polish wing of the Belarusian national movement: lawyer Pavel Aleksyuk and landowner Roman Skirmunt. But the occupiers did not appreciate this. On February 25, the Germans occupied the building where the People's Secretariat had previously been located, confiscating the cash register (300 thousand rubles), and removing the white-red-white flags used as a symbol of the Belarusian national movement from the facade... Support me on Boosty: https://boosty.to/ivanzaitsevskii My VK: https://vk.com/publiczaitsevskogo My Telegram: https://t.me/IvanZaitsevskii #BNR #IvanZaitsevsky #History #BelarusianPeople's Republic