When freedom reigns in Belarus, streets and squares with Soviet names will be rededicated to heroes and friends from the present and the past. I hope, for example, to see a thoroughfare named after Ivonka Survilla, president of the Rada (Council), the exiled body representing the short-lived Belarusian Democratic Republic of 1918-1919. Lithuania deserves one too, and especially its foreign minister Linas Linkevičius, who has championed the cause of democracy in his country’s southern neighbor.

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