Аннотация: Venezuelan-Belarusian model. Lukashenko's visit to the hospital, thoughts of TV-master Bibikova, remarks of doctor Solovey. A political essay.
Venezuelan-Belarusian model. Lukashenko's visit to the hospital, thoughts of TV-master Bibikova, remarks of doctor Solovey. A political essay.
1. An euphoria.
Yesterday, November 28, 2020, Lukashenko visited the 6th hospital in Minsk.
Some reports of the event hinted at some sort of euphoria of Lukashenko. A kind of relaxation, jokes were mentioned - something like euphoria from expressions of loyalty on the part of the rebellious, humiliated, obedient masses of people, dependent on the authorities.
2. A local riots, a replacement of independent people with loyal screws.
Interesting in this regard is the opinion of TV-master Bibikova, who has worked on television for about 20 years:
'I think we had false optimism, self-deception caused by the euphoria - that we stand together under the walls of Belarusian TV-radio-company and speak the truth.
Then, after reflection, I realized: even if the leadership, for example, said: 'Yes, we will do everything in a new and honest way', tomorrow Belarusian TV-radio-company would be headed by other people. And we will must to do what they will say. Nothing would have changed ...
Nothing will change on television until the government [system of state management] changes. Everything else is local riots that end in harsh persecution and repression. And then new screws appear in the mechanism [new screws instead of a protesting people]. After all, a lot of people are not necessary to make propaganda stories [plots]. And there will always be people willing to do this. Well, instead of entertaining, intellectual, cultural content, you can play [play back] endless replays [an old creative product] taken from the [archive] funds. " ('Mom and daughter left TV and survived the arrest. Natalia Bibikova and Alexandra Bobkova about the seamy side of TV-work.' Belarusian portal TUT.BY. November 23, 2020 at 10:13. Polina Kuzmitskaya.) (Https://lady.tut.by /news/work/708798.html)
3. The humane authorities are separating the population to parts and offering emigration as an option for the dissatisfied.
A remark of doctor Stanislav Solovey: 'This is the question that struck me the most in the police department ...... The officer asked:' Why don't you leave [abroad] if you don't like it? ' I didn't even find what to say. " ('There was a camera [movie camera] nearby, there was a small microphone. ... I was asked something like this:' Will you continue to treat [in the hospital] people in uniform? ') (' Will you treat people in uniform? 'The doctor - about 15 days of arrest, a beloved gynecology and a fight against COVID-19. Belarusian portal TUT.BY. November 26, 2020 at 19:24. Lyubov Kasperovich.) (https://news.tut.by/society/709090.html)
Summation. Lukashenko's transition to survival mode by any means. There is a real control center for Belarus. Yard internet chats and yard communities are not sufficient to overthrow Lukashenko's regime.
1) The Lukashenko's regime has switched into a mode of survival by any methods and means.
The "Maduro model" is used. It doesn't matter how the country lives and what happens to it. Society is divided into those who agree with the existence of an absurd and ineffective regime, and those who disagree. Those who disagree are 'humanely' squeezed out abroad. Within the country, stable domination of those loyal to the regime is achieved. Venezuela is a country rich in natural resources. Such a model can exist in Venezuela for one or two generations. Belarus is not so rich - this model can exist during 0.5-1 generation ...
2) Periodic, very precise, replacement of soiled, stained and psychologically tired ministers with new, clean and fresh ones, mention of the 'Polish nationality' of the new minister of culture, organization of mid- and high-level handshaking sessions right after the most morally dubious (for the regime) events (mass torture on August 9-13, 2020, murder of Roman Bondarenko November 12 [11], 2020 ...). - All these actions, events testify to the fact that at the top of a Belarus state system there is a manager or managers who surpass in their intellectual level the Lukashenko's primitive cunning.
3) Yard internet chats, self-organization 'from below' and similar concepts, although they have some value, are not sufficient - they could not help to defeat the Lukshenko's regime ... The Belarusian people need legal state self-organization ...
November 29, 2020 05:58
Translation from Russian into English: November 29, 2020 10:56.
Владимир Владимирович Залесский 'Венесуэльско-белорусская модель. Визит Лукашенко в больницу, мысли TV-мастера Бибиковой, замечания доктора Соловья. Политический очерк'.