page_title: Slutsk uprising
section_title: Congress of Słuččyna
hierarchical_section_title: Slutsk uprising / Congress of Słuččyna
caption_attribution_description: Беларуская (тарашкевіца)‎: Сьцяг першага Слуцкага палку (Słucak) стральцоў БНР з Пагоняй (Pahonia)English: Flag of the First Regiment of Slutsk during the en:Slutsk Defence Action]
context_page_description: The Slutsk uprising or the Slutsk defence was an unsuccessful armed attempt to establish an independent Belarus. It took place in late 1920, near the end of the Polish-Soviet War, in the region of the town of Slutsk. It involved a series of clashes between irregular Belarusian forces loyal to the Belarusian People's Republic and the Soviet Red Army, ending in a Soviet victory.
context_section_description: On November 14, 1920 the Congress of Słuččyna (Slutsk region) started its work. There were 107 delegates from Słuck and its surroundings as well as several representatives of the Belarusian army of general Bułak-Bałachovič.
  The government of the Belarusian National Republic appointed Pavał Žaŭryd its commissioner to Słuččyna.
  The Congress passed a resolution declaring the authority of the government of the Belarusian National Republic and protesting against the Soviet invasion of Belarus. A decision was made to organize armed resistance against the bolshevik occupation:
  The First Belarusian Congress of Słuččyna, formed of 107 persons, salutes the Upper Rada of the Belarusian Democratic Republic and declares that it will give all its powers for the revival of our Fatherland and categorically protests against the occupation of our Fatherland by foreign and impostor Soviet powers. Long live the independent National Belarusian Republic in its ethnographic borders!
caption: Battle flag of the Słuck Defence Action
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