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This is so interesting - from award-winning Dexter Filkins - that it's exasperating that it's being crowded off the news by Russia and covid.
The Accidental Revolutionary Leading Belarus’s Uprising
How Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya came to challenge her country’s dictatorship.
A few months before, Tsikhanouskaya’s husband, a journalist named Siarhei Tsikhanouski, had declared his own candidacy against Lukashenka, whom he had relentlessly derided as an incompetent autocrat, a “cockroach” who was despoiling the country.
He was arrested and thrown into a “punishment cell,” a dank concrete box without a window. Hundreds of others had already been imprisoned for questioning the regime.
With Siarhei in jail, Tsikhanouskaya decided to run herself.
The men then led Tsikhanouskaya to a dark room and closed the door. “Your campaign is over,” Pavlyuchenko told her. They gave her a choice, she recalled. She could go to prison, leaving her son and daughter to be raised by others. Or she could leave the country immediately; a car was waiting. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2...aruss-uprising
A few months before, Tsikhanouskaya’s husband, a journalist named Siarhei Tsikhanouski, had declared his own candidacy against Lukashenka, whom he had relentlessly derided as an incompetent autocrat, a “cockroach” who was despoiling the country.
Belarus is not a perfect place but it's a damn sight better than a lot of others. Lukashenko saved it from the rape which happened to Russia and other places.
This is so interesting - from award-winning Dexter Filkins - that it's exasperating that it's being crowded off the news by Russia and covid.
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How much money for that award came from CIA? 100% or just 99.9%?
Belarus is not a perfect place but it's a damn sight better than a lot of others. Lukashenko saved it from the rape which happened to Russia and other places.
I've been there more than once. I know.
It is a dictatorship, freedom is THE most important aspect of ANY society and Belarus is NOT a free society, it seems to me that a portion of people in the 21st century on this planet have forgotten how important freedom is. Our ancestors fought and died in their millions for freedom its absurd that in the modern age people are still fighting for it.
It is a dictatorship, freedom is THE most important aspect of ANY society and Belarus is NOT a free society, it seems to me that a portion of people in the 21st century on this planet have forgotten how important freedom is. Our ancestors fought and died in their millions for freedom its absurd that in the modern age people are still fighting for it.
There is no "freedom" when foreign interests are involved in the internal politics of the country.
When were your ancestors running for help from the foreign country to establish the new government in G.B., Easthome?
It is a dictatorship, freedom is THE most important aspect of ANY society and Belarus is NOT a free society, it seems to me that a portion of people in the 21st century on this planet have forgotten how important freedom is. Our ancestors fought and died in their millions for freedom its absurd that in the modern age people are still fighting for it.
News for you: There are not free societies in this world.
Why you think you are free?? Free of what??
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