On December 19, 2010, Ploscha-2010 took place, the largest protest action in Belarus at that time.
That day, according to various estimates, up to 40,000 Belarusians took to the streets of Minsk and other major cities in Belarus to express their disagreement with the large-scale fraud in the presidential election.
The CEC then awarded Lukashenko 79.65% of the vote, while opposition candidate Andriy Sannikov received 2.43%. Even before the results were announced that evening, presidential candidate poet Volodymyr Neklyaev was attacked. He was taken to the hospital with a broken head.
Other presidential candidates, ordinary opposition supporters, and journalists covering the event were also detained.
In total, more than 700 people were detained, many of whom were beaten by police during the brutal crackdown.
This became not only a prototype for even more massive protests in 2020, but also training the regime in large-scale election fraud and dispersal of protests by Lukashenko's security forces. The flywheel of repression only gained momentum.
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