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Originally Posted by Scrat335
Tikhanovskaya has fled to Lithuania. Supposedly of her own free will. She asked for the protests to stop.
Like it or not there is a silent majority in Belarus. I spoke with my ex wifes relatives in Orsha and Gomel. They all supported Lukashenko. It's the Ukraine thing.
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Yesterday I was listening to one particular Ukrainian youtube channel ( the guy is actually one of the regular Ukrainian TV hosts, and as I discovered lately, few of them are actually native Russian speakers, who are simply not allowed to conduct their shows in Russian. But now they all started their own channels ( in Russian of course.)
And so he devoted that dispatch to the events in Belorussia (which was very helpful, since I am the least familiar with Belorussia - always has been. From little that I knew of them - they were coming across as the most demure, most quiet of the Russian variety - no boisterous gang-ho types as "Russians proper" or Ukrainians can be.
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So the TV host was asking the Belorussian guy ( married to a Ukrainian) about what Belorussians perceived as difficult part living under Lukashenko ( in terms of business, politics, finances - things like that.)
And the guy in his quietest Belorussian manner gave pretty good explanations.
From what I gather, whatever some blame Lukashenko in, comes unjustly from my point of view, because let's face it - Belorussia is a POOR COUNTRY, with nothing in particular to offer, other than good work ethics, hard-working people and penny-pinching president. ( Yes, the dairy products made in Belorussia are flying off the shelves in Russian stores before anything else, because of their quality - that's what Russians are saying. Unlike their own sh*t full of palm oil.)
But SOMEONE ( as usual) is whispering in their ear, that if ONLY, if ONLY Belorussians will "turn to the West," they will be so much "better off financially."
So the Ukrainian host was asking questions.
He said "We too thought back in 2014 that we'll turn into some "European country," but looking at us today, can you understand that what if, what if instead of turning into some "Germany" as you hoped, you will turn into some Gabon instead?"
Another interesting thing that they discussed was Svetlana Tikhanovskay herself ( I knew little about her as well.)
That part was even worse.
Some housewife, with philological/foreign languages education.
While she was riding in a car to the initial protests, she was urgently propped up on how the whole election system works, what branches of the government need to be engaged for that and so on, since she was obviously clueless, while initially promising to set the "re-election."
By the sound of it, she was totally clueless to ANYTHING in politics or governmental apparatus - period, her main peeve was "let's set free my husband and other political prisoners, and they will know what to do from there."
And that's why once she realized what she was up against, she refused to participate in the "protest" and so it didn't have any leader at all ( unlike during Ukrainian Maidan.)
And thus, the Ukrainian host was asking a reasonable question - "OK, so when you are ready to get rid of Lukashenko, whom/what are you going to have instead? It's like throwing away your old pants that you don't like, without having a new pair in your drawer."
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In Orsha there was a small protest of about 50 people. The cops showed up to save them from the locals. They weren't from Orsha.
Sound familiar?
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Yes, it does. *Someone* is stirring things up in that part of the world, and we know who it is.
From what Lukashenko is saying, there were plenty of *foreigners* that arrived to his country for the "event."
He mentioned the countries they were from, and interestingly enough, Russia was on the list as well ( other than those 31 Donbass fighters set up by the Ukrainians I assume.)
Sharij gave a hint that Lukashenko is becoming more and more inconvenient for Kremlin, but whatever insinuations he usually has against Kremlin, do not always make sense to me, knowing the "alternatives" under the circumstances.
But I'll keep listening to all the sources of info, that's how you get a better picture.
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