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Hea ülevaade sündustest ja noorte meelsusest (enda näitel, inglise keeles) ühelt valgevenelasest redditis. Ajajoon kattub üsna hästi ka siin foorumis arutatuga. Huvitav vahepeal lugeda ka kohalike noorte perspektiivi (kes seal ju põhiliselt ka mässavad):
(allajoonimine minupoolne, muul kujul muutmata, kirjavead jätsin sisse)I'm so tired of the constant barrage of comments about everything being in vain, or even worse – that all of this will just lead to some kind of merge with Russia.
We don't care about Russia. At all. I'll describe you briefly what my thoughts were during all this. I'm sure I'm not alone with this process.
Pre-2019. I never supported Lukashenko. I voted against him twice already, even though I knew they did not count the votes. Still a lot of people supported him, and it was really unclear how old school opposition is going to win in the upcoming elections even if they were fair. However the economy is struggling a lot, the income is not growing. The government is very reluctant to make any reforms.
End of 2019. A lot of scary talks with Russia about the merge. A lot of secrecy, lack of trust is beginning to show. People who are against the merge are scared for the independence, people who are pro-merge don't understand very vocal Lukashenko with anti-Russian agenda.
2020. Coronavirus. This is US levels of fucking things up with coronavirus. But without Dr. Fauci or a number of governors that take a stand. Just unbelievable lack of human qualities from the government. People are angry.
May 2020 Babariko, Tsepkalo, Tikhanovskii decide to run for the presidency. People begin to understand that there's an alternative. I personally carefully listen to their interviews, try to find a flaw and see who I can support. I find flaws in all of them.
June-July 2020 During the campaign it's becoming apparent that the regions are fed up as well. It's something new. Meanwhile the government jails or shuts down all true opposition leaders. People are getting more and more angry.
At the beginning of June I laughed at the thought of voting for Svetlana. A wife of the video-blogger. What a joke. I'm sure Lukashenka had the same thought when he let her to become the candidate. Fatal mistake. By the end of July when all three opposition leaders combined their forces it became apparent: we are many. We have the chance. And the message was loud and clear – new and fair elections.
1-8 of August Unbelievable amount of bullshit opposition has to deal with just exposes how really unfair the system is to a vast amount of people who have never thought that it might be the case. A beautiful strategy on behalf of opposition. Trying all legal ways to deal with corrupt government just to show how corrupt and unfair it really is. How it's laws only apply to regular people. Russian citizens get captured. Hitmans, rented guns, came here to make a revolution. Nobody takes this seriously. You just can't constantly lie, get caught in your lie, and then lie again and again and expect that people are gonna believe you.
9th of August We vote. A lot of people vote. It's clear, that a lot of people are voting for a change. I go to the polling station in district where I leave (not the one that I voted in) just to see the results. There're like 50 ordinary people just waiting for the results as well. They don't announce the results in the precinct and teachers that are supposed to count the votes are scared and call the police for help. 20 good men comes and saves the day for them. But in the meantime I get the call from my friend: Tikhanovskaya have won the elections in 3 of their precincts. With like 80 to 90% of the votes. I tell this to strangers around me, and people are ecstatic. They are shouting and clapping.
That night I don't go to protests and come home late. And what I see is the new and mind boggling amount of violence that the government is using against the protestors. And even though it breaks my heart, it also gives me faith. We've won. We've actually won. You won't be able to run the country like that. People across the country are protesting.
And with every passing day since that night I believe more and more that this regime will fall. It's not gonna last five more years. This amount of brutality will turn off even the most loyal people. Lukashenka's hand is empty. The king is naked. And almost every single person knows it.
It's gonna be a journey, I don't know how long it's gonna take, but for the first time in my life I see a national idea for Belarusians being born, nursed and let free. To get rid of Lukashenka.
We don't care about Russia. A nation is being born right now. You can literally see our flag from the legends being worn on the streets: a streak of blood on a white cloth. And with all that's been going on it is scary. It is sad. It is unsettling. But it is also beautiful.
