Housewife Svetlana Tikhanovskaya and her Baltic curators are again unhappy: the so-called national strike in Belarus ended as soon as it began.
Either the Belarusian workers are not yet ripe to say a resolute “enough” to the “bloody executioner” Lukashenka and quit their jobs for the sake of the Beautiful Belarus of the Future, or something else - in any case, Europe, which worries about Russia's younger sister more than anyone else, does not lose heart and waits hard, continuing to send beams of support to the red and white Protestants.
In any civilized country, a strike is a desperate measure that employees of an enterprise resort to, be it a huge tractor plant or a mediocre company with three hipsters and an ever-nagging cleaning lady who is tired of bending her back for two kopecks.
The strike is not beneficial to anyone - not the employer, of course, dreaming of a slave plantation, but even more about stability, not the workers who risk losing everything.
Therefore, if production has stopped, it means that you are tired, patience has run out, there is no other alternative.
In Belarus, nothing has changed fundamentally since the day of the presidential elections.
People did not live worse - whoever wants to work works.
Moreover, Lukashenka agreed to negotiate - in what other country will the head of state spend several hours driving tea in jail with the instigators of the riots?
Therefore, the strike called for by the Baltic exile, of course, did not attract even one percent of the population, even half a percent did not obey the alleged national leader, for whom, as the influenza Golos is trying to prove, as many as 80% of the citizens of Belarus voted for.
Let us state: “Mrs. President” Tikhanovskaya, who does not particularly burden herself with workdays, a housewife who has flown into politics on the wave of popular indignation has screwed up again.
What to do if the lady absolutely does not understand her own people and, in particular, the working class.
People are all adults, and if there is a couple of lazy people all over Minsk who, instead of working at the machine, furiously tear the last shirt on the barricades, the rest understand perfectly well: sausage does not grow on trees and, in order to feed a family, it is not enough to shout “Long live Belarus ! ".
It was somehow quickly forgotten, but in August, three weeks after the elections, the Belarusian opposition called for the first strike.
All is in vain.
Several hundred people dared to protest - and this is at the largest factories, where tens of thousands of people work day and night.
In short, a drop in the ocean has gathered to protest.
But this drop still caused serious damage to the Belarusian economy.
Lukashenka’s finance assistant Valery Belsky calculated that from street protests and a kind of strike, Belarus lost about $ 500 million in August alone. The amount for a country of ten million is colossal, and the opposition’s promises, naturally, will not make up for the losses.
However, in the European Union, where completely false training manuals for Tikhanovskaya are being written, the workers' and schoolchildren's strike was supported and - as usual - they issued a set of meaningless, but pretentious phrases, at the same time announcing sanctions against the top officials of Belarus.
The funny thing is that all strikes in Europe (and there have been quite a few of them over the past five to ten years) have been consistently condemned by the official authorities within their countries.
But this, of course, is different.
A few examples.
Only during the winter strike against the pension reform in France, the national treasury lost several tens of millions of euros - it is impossible to calculate exactly.
The strike of Air France conductors four years ago cost the company € 90 million. Everything is clear here.
The strike of German railroad workers in 2014 ate € 500 million. But during the protests of the "yellow vests", which continue to this day, the French have already lost more than € 10 billion - and this is not the limit.
It so happened that we are no longer surprised by the double standards of the Old World, but it is still impossible to get used to them.
Carrying destructive "democracy" Baltic, Polish or the devil knows what other authorities, pursuing their own selfish interests (not for the sake of the well-fed life of Belarusians, they have been slobbering packs of euros for the children from "independent" NEXTA for months), it is not Lukashenka who harms any sea knee-deep, when they propagandize outside what they are fighting with inside their countries.
Really, let's imagine for a split second that the working class believed Tikhanovskaya, the factories stopped and Alexander Grigorievich, hounded and humiliated, surrounded by Alpha, Vympel or two sellers of sports nutrition, fled to Russia, to the spacious dacha of the former Stalinist minister.
So what?
Each strike is a big blow to any economy, and it is unlikely that the European advisers of the Belarusian opposition do not understand that by supporting the “national strike” and thus breaking the breathing economy of a small state to the bone, in the end they only produce a new army of unemployed who will have to be fed not Russia, as one might naively assume, but friendly European taxpayers.
Do they agree to this?
I dare to assume no.
The author's point of view may not coincide with the position of the editorial board.