Citizen Kovalkova, a confidant of the former presidential candidate of the Republic of Belarus (according to the opposition, the elected president) Tikhanovskaya, announced the creation of a coordination council for the transfer of power. Now it includes 35 souls, but the process continues, and 70 souls are promised.
In the outside world (yes, it seems, in Belarus itself), of the council members, the only partly known is the name of the Nobel laureate in literature S.A. Alexievich. Still, the international nomenclature. The rest of the names are obscure. Which caused the ridicule of skeptics.
The ridicule is hardly substantial. Georges Danton also explained that the revolution is not even 35 or 70, but as many as 100 thousand vacancies. And they are mostly occupied by previously unknown persons. Whatever revolution you take, the observer will be surprised to ask: "Who are all these people?" And why should it be different in Belarus?
Of course, skepticism can also be caused by the fact that the coordinating Tikhanovskaya is outside Belarus, in Lithuania (moreover, according to the trusted Kovalkova, “Svetlana Tikhanovskaya did not plan to come to Belarus, and I very much hope, I am sure that she will return to Belarus "- as you want, understand), and the coordinator is Aleksievich in Germany. But this has happened before.
IN AND. Lenin was hiding from the hounds of the Provisional Government in Razliv, which also did not contribute to coordination. Then there was the crossing of the border in the guise of a steam locomotive stoker, movement along the streets of Petrograd with a bandaged cheek, and Ilyich's appearance to the people took place only at the Second Congress of Soviets, when the matter was already over. As he wrote in the 20s. one simple-minded delegate to the congress, "and then the leader of the world proletariat, Comrade Lenin, appeared on the platform without any vegetation on his head and face." The conspiracy of "Lenin in October" generally looks quite operetta - in the spirit of silent movie stars Charlie Chaplin and Max Linder - which did not prevent him from doing big business after coming to power. And how is Tikhanovskaya and Alexievich worse?
Valid claims can be of two kinds.
First, the name of the newly formed structure is long and clumsy. "Council", in the sense of "meeting", by definition is forced to coordinate (link, match, coordinate) the opinions of its members, so the "coordinating council" is a tautology, butter. The foreign language "transfer" is also incomprehensible. The name “Committee for the seizure of power” - after all, everything is for this and for nothing else - it would be short and clear. And if the "seizure" is very rude and frank, well, "by the transfer of power." Why use foreign words unnecessarily?
Second, what will this council, whose committee, will do? The October coup was prepared by the Military Revolutionary Committee of the Petrograd Soviet under the actual leadership of Comrade. Trotsky. The VRK methodically seized control levers and, like a boa constrictor, immobilized the Provisional Government. When the Aurora's cannon boomed, the capitalist ministers no longer had any power.
Organizational talent comrade Trotsky was very great. It is possible that the coordination council also has its own Trotsky, but no one knows anything about him, and there are no practical cases of squeezing Lukashenko. And what is this transfer, is it a seizure?
Another, far from so victorious analogy is more appropriate here. Eight years ago, in October 2012, we also had an opposition coordination council. Moreover, in contrast to the completely openly self-appointed Belarusian structure, there was even a clever internet voting. Cyber activists democratically elected cyber activists.
When the synclite was formed, it also had to deal with the transfer of chi capture - otherwise, why bother building a garden at all? Moreover, the members of the council even then confidently reported that the Putin regime had only a few days, or at least months.
Instead, the members got bogged down in procedural issues from the very beginning, quarreled terribly at them, and then began to leave the synclite one by one, arguing that the structure was empty and meaningless. On October 19, 2013, the last meeting of the CC did not take place due to lack of quorum. The date for the election of the new composition was not set, and the Constitutional Court ended its existence. Now even few people remember about it.
In the near future it should become clear what the Belarusian experience is more like. On a very successful undertaking comrade. Trotsky or the much less successful undertaking of Russian activists.
The author's point of view may not coincide with the position of the editorial board.