Comments on: Go for it, Belarus! http://www.european-democracy.org/archives/2006/03/21/go-for-it-belarus/ EUlogical reflections Wed, 09 Jul 2008 02:05:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: beatroot http://www.european-democracy.org/archives/2006/03/21/go-for-it-belarus/#comment-6599 beatroot Tue, 21 Mar 2006 23:51:28 +0000 http://www.european-democracy.org/archives/2006/03/21/go-for-it-belarus/#comment-6599 I would honestly love to see change there too. But...what all the coverage in the West misses is that Lukashenko <i>does have lots of support in Belarus.</i> OK, the media is not free and that limits the possibility of coming to rational conclusions. But lots of people there have seen capitalism in Poland etc and they are scared witless by it. 'Lukashenko looks after us, he's OK'. And the Belarus opposition has not really been a threat. I would honestly love to see change there too. But…what all the coverage in the West misses is that Lukashenko does have lots of support in Belarus.

OK, the media is not free and that limits the possibility of coming to rational conclusions. But lots of people there have seen capitalism in Poland etc and they are scared witless by it.

‘Lukashenko looks after us, he’s OK’.

And the Belarus opposition has not really been a threat.

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