In the dead end of deceit

It looks as if enormous chaos and misunderstanding of the processes going on in the country prevail in the heads of representatives of the regime, as in their speeches they contradict their own propagandist doctrine.

In this case I’m talking about the recent speeches of the presidential administration head Uladzimir Makei and Belarusian Foreign Minister Syarhei Martynau.

In the rage of indignant criticism of the European Union policy towards the Belarusian regime, the both politicians unknowingly confirmed the fact that there is no democracy in Belarus. And it was done despite the fact that official mass media, propaganda and ideology day after day are doing their best to persuade the population that Belarus is the freest and most democratic country in the world.

To make the picture complete I will offer you a few quotations. Thus, Makei, urging Europe to conduct “a sane policy”, said the following: “If you (Europe) want Belarus to consistently follow the path of developing democracy, in the European understanding of this word, if you want the civil society of Belarus to continue developing, and want it to be politically developed and knowledgeable, for the political system to improve, for the European values to be further implemented, you should act in completely different methods.” Martynau added to Makei’s words: “If there were not for the harsh and unjustified sanctions adopted in January 2011 after the presidential election in December 2010, Belarus would probably go a longer path of internal improvement.”

So it follows from Makei and Martynau’s words that there have not been and there is no democracy in the European understanding in Belarus, the country is in the state of political underdevelopment and immaturity, and huge efforts should be applied; that there is no free and fair election in Belarus, that is, the results of all parliamentary and presidential elections had been rigged, and it means that the Belarusian regime and many political institutions are illegitimate.

Besides, the statements of official politicians confirm the fact that the law and constitution are not observed in the country, that means, the current powers that me, including the mentioned politicians,  stay in power illegally and retain it by forcible means, ignoring rights and freedoms of citizens totally.

In this connection a logical question suggests itself: how the regime which treads on the laws of its own country, is going “to improve itself internally”? The only possibility for the state’s development is a change of the illegal regime. Otherwise all the processes of “democratic improvement” would be limited to banal imitation. As “a political immaturity” of the Belarusian society is a result of the regime’s power exclusively, not of an influence of external forces. That is why a desire to follow the path of democratic development in no way depends on the European Union, but entirely on the will of Belarusian authorities, which is absent today and which is unlikely to appear in the future.

Pavel Usau, for charter97.org