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"I've Been Neglecting The Regime Since 1994!"

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"I've Been Neglecting The Regime Since 1994!"

Where are adherents of Lukashenka?

Last weekend on my way Berezino-Minsk it was other time when I could fully realize that the logic of the masses was out of sense.

- I like Easter more than the New Year, one of passengers in the car noticed.

- Why?

- Well, you should wait for the New Year. And in the Easter you wake up and start the holiday.

This weekend I had a surprise from my relatives. Everybody gave the government a tongue-lashing (retirement age increase, drop of wages, high prices, and so on).

But one thing stopped me from being glad of meeting like-minded people - bright memories of 2004. Aliaksandr Lukashenka announced the referendum, which made an endless election possible for him. I was running about the house, but found no understanding.

For many years passive adherents of Lukashenka made up almost 100% among my relatives. Thus, I hope you'll understand my bewilderment when I find out that these people believe the country has been following the wrong way for long.

Some time ago I was deeply impressed by another my relative, who once said a few words, while discussion of the geopolitical situation in the world (what should people talk about?):

- I hate communists.

If my friends were there, they would shake his hand or even could give him a kiss. However, I was shocked by other thing, a man (50 years old) finally understood how much sorrow the communism had brought to the humanity, and for the Belarusians - Stalin's repressions. I was impressed that ... a member of the CPSU said it. And as far as I know, he never used to feel sorrow and regret.

So, it is now clear why it is so hard to find (marginal groups are an exception) supporters of Lukashenka, Jesus, damn-it! There is no one to argue with! The thing is that an empty stomach made the conscience wake up. All points of view or something else have disappeared. Nothing new has been found yet, but people understand that "something is wrong".

I will not be surprised that in five years a neighbour may say around a festive table: "I've been neglecting the regime since 1994!"

Ruslan Gorbachev, Salidarnasts

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