Valeria Novodvorskaya: “To Subsidize Lukashenka’s Dictatorship is Ruin and Disgrace” :: Charter'97 :: News

“As a patriot of Belarus, who reads Belarusian authors without a dictionary and knows the anthem Pahonya by heart, I can say that the union with Russia is not needed, it is a noose. Belarus has almost lost its national identity because of all these talks about this union. Everybody who disappeared without traces, who was murdered, they all have perished as a consequence of these talks about the union, because Russia allows anything at all just to continue these honey-words,” the leader of the party “Democratic Union of Russia” Valeria Novodvorskaya said in her interview to the Russian service of Radio Svaboda. “And as a patriot of Russia I can say that we do not need it either. We do not need to have a millstone about our neck; we do not need one with a plough, seven with a spoon. We do not need to feed anybody, everybody should support oneself. And we must not pay for dictatorship by a cheap gas, as in this way we support the dictatorship financially, we subsidize repressions, subsidize a kind of Cuba. It’s a real ruin, it’s a real disgrace. As the situation with the dictatorship and absence of freedom in Belarus is getting worse, Russia is dragged further in this direction as well”.

As said by Valeria Novodvorskaya, Russia has always wanted to implement a plan Hitler Germany had realized concerning Austria, referring to family sentiments, “being one family”, neighbourhood and the same German language”.

“This phenomenon is called Anschluss, and it’s better to avoid it. Until Moscow deserves it, others would desire to make things lively for Russia. And as long as Russia is intermeddling in others’ business with its hoof, not even with a hand, it would be spited. As a Russian patriot I can say that we have deserved everything we hear from the Baltic states and Ukraine now, and we deserve even more,” the leader of the party stated.