It just so happened that it was Belarus, close to us, that turned out to be an outpost of resistance to the popular political technology in recent years in the world, called the "color revolution".
It turned out that the state as a system has a huge margin of safety and if the leader does not run in horror in front of the opposition, like Yanukovych, does not bend under moral pressure, but fights, then it is very, very difficult to knock him out.
This turned out to be Alexander Lukashenko.
Even his opponents are unlikely to argue with this.
Citizens walking in huge crowds on the streets may impress, but not overthrow the government.
This requires a decisive organization, worthy leaders, and if they do not exist, then there is no revolution.
Yes, beautiful, inspiring for many, but the result is dumb.
This is more and more obvious in Belarus.
Last weekend, 16 protest actions were recorded in the cities of Belarus.
In regional centers it is more modest - up to 100 people, in Minsk the largest - up to 7 thousand. A total of 280 protesters were detained across the country on Sunday.
Most are in the capital.
This is how the official representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Bashkortostan Olga Chemodanova wrote about it in her Telegram channel: “In the area of st.
Oktyabrskaya at 14:30, scattered groups of citizens gathered, proceeding in the direction of Partizansky Prospekt, where they entered the roadway and blocked traffic.
Then we headed towards the Moscow Ring Road.
At 4:10 pm the movement of the protesters was blocked by the police officers and the internal troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs ... In Minsk, individuals actively resisted the police.
The downturn in street protest has allowed the authorities to change tactics.
It was announced by the President of Belarus personally.
“We will find everyone in a calm mode.
Modern means allow us to do this, which, by the way, we are doing.
And everyone will be responsible for their deeds.
I'm not threatening here.
We are working in this direction, ”he said.
Lukashenko is convinced that the Belarusian protests are controlled from the outside through the “center near Warsaw”, as well as from the Czech Republic, Lithuania and Ukraine.
At the center of the malicious web is, of course, the United States.
Everyone knows about the "center near Warsaw".
This is the notorious NEXTA-Live - Telegram channel, whose young authors (judging by the interview with Yuri Dud) do not give the impression of independent players.
That is, the actual promotion of the channel is probably their merit - grandfathers, people of the old school, do not know how to flicker like that, but they seem to be helped with the supply of information from the streets of Belarusian cities.
And it's not a fact that these assistants do not have diplomatic passports.
And some of them are likely to wear shoulder straps.
It was on NEXTA-Live that one of the main blows was dealt.
The court of the Central District of Minsk recognized the channel and its logo as extremist, which opens up an operational space for law enforcement officers.
The inclusion of the resource in the relevant list of the Ministry of Information will allow blocking the further distribution of materials in traditional media, and therefore, narrowing their audience and effectiveness.
However, the struggle is not over.
NEXTA-Live has re-branded, changing the logo to a confusingly similar one.
Trying to influence the young Belarusians led by the Poles, Lukashenko replaced the rectors of three universities, whose students showed themselves especially actively in street actions.
Two of them are in Minsk, one in Brest.
This is the second change of heads of educational institutions.
“There is no disaster there.
Students have always been violent and stormy, ”the President of the Republic of Belarus noted condescendingly.
At the same time, he made it clear that “to walk along the clean, comfortable streets of Minsk and think that tomorrow I will take the reins of government into my own hands” is a “dangerous delusion”.
Lukashenka is generally strong in psychology.
From the very beginning he understood that the state apparatus and the security forces would be his support as long as he himself demonstrates decisiveness.
Hence the running around with a gun at the ready, so the intelligentsia was amused.
Like, Old Man has lost his mind.
And he didn’t come down.
He just knows how the simple and unwise majority thinks.
Especially those in uniform.
“Do you think they will pity us / you?
- he turned to veterans of power structures, participants of the rally in support of the authorities.
- Yes, they will tear to pieces.
The veterans will tear, shake their heads, agreeing.
The special appeal to law enforcement officers is understandable.
Here Lukashenko is fighting in absentia for police souls with his main formal opponent, Svetlana Tikhanovskaya.
“You are used to following orders.
But we must understand that soon the orders will sound from the new, democratic government.
This is inevitable ... Five days left, ”threatens the wife of a popular blogger from faraway Lithuania, referring to her“ ultimatum ”, which expires on October 25.
According to him, the President of the Republic of Belarus must surrender power, but for some reason he is not surrendering.
While mobilizing security officials in his support, Lukashenko, as an experienced politician, does not forget to flatter the people, the source of his power.
And he does it literally on the edge.
“If suddenly the people decide that tomorrow they will be in the North Atlantic bloc, as these protests are suggesting here, they will go to NATO.
If the people decide to cut the country into pieces and distribute it, the country will be cut.
But if the people decide that we will live in a peaceful, calm, quiet, cultured country, then we will live in such a country. "
And what is it ?!
Engineer of Human Souls ...
At the same time, the head of Belarus is quite self-critical.
He understands that, apparently, he tired many in the country by the very fact of his presence at the highest post for a quarter of a century.
If you believe Yuri Voskresensky from the headquarters of the banker candidate Babariko, then Lukashenka, during his famous meeting with opponents in the KGB pre-trial detention center, said that he had “gorged” on the presidency and himself came up with an initiative to limit his tenure in the highest post to two consecutive terms.
It seems that Old Man, having strangled the revolution from below, is ready to lead the revolution from above.
The author's point of view may not coincide with the position of the editorial board.