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Yury Khashchevatski: Lukashenka's Value Is Zero

Yury Khashchevatski: Lukashenka's Value Is Zero

What the outgoing 2018 showed Belarusians.

The well-known Belarusian film director Yury Khashchevatski told about it to Charter97.org, looking back on the year.

– What, in your opinion, was the most important for Belarus and Belarusians this year?

– The most important thing this year was the gradual sobering due to a more clear understanding of the motives and tools of our closest huge neighbor - Russia. And as a result, a clearer view of the deep catastrophe Lukashenka's regime led us to.

Actually, economists, historians, and in general understanding people warned us where things were going. But in recent weeks, this situation has finally emerged and has become very evident. The value of almost a quarter-century of Lukashenka’s reign in the post that he had usurped was summed up.

We can say, that this year reveled the real value of the Belarusian dictator: what his “economic miracle,” stories of which have long made everyone sick and tired, is worth. It has become quite clear today, that there was no miracle but a sweet trap that Russia prepared for our country.

And all Lukashenka's “theatrics” that he “will defend independence,” went to pieces. The real value of these “theatrics” and twitches also became known. And their value is zero, as well as the value of the dictator himself. Because it was Lukashenko who led us to all this.

He has been destroying Belarusian independence, destroying freedom within the country, destroying the entrepreneurial spirit that is in the people, for twenty-four years. He did not allow businesspersons, journalists, or anyone else to breathe freely in Belarus.

He did everything to destroy civil society, to get rid of the people who thought differently from him, who saw the future of the country differently and opposed him. He either eliminated them or forced them out of the country. All this was done in order to achieve a goal, having come to which Lukashenka got terrified: he realized that he was bound hand and foot by an arrogant eastern neighbor. Now they dictate to him and he can do nothing. That is, he ended up with what he had been striving for.

This was clear to many people even earlier. But today – and this is the main result of the year – Lukashenka's price and the deadlock, to which he had brought the country, became obvious if not to all, then to the majority of the Belarusians.

So, this is the result, and it is a little alarming.

– And what can inspire optimism in this situation?

– Despite the fact that Belarus is not suitable for optimism, I was and remain an optimist by my nature.

And this optimism has been driving me for almost a quarter of a century. And I am still confident that there are forces in our society, and these forces will come together and will be able to resist our main opponent.

I will tell you frankly: my optimism often wasn't confirmed in further events.

But nevertheless, I see things that can cause optimism in Belarusians. For example, I see that well-known people talk about the value of the history of Belarus, the value of the Belarusian language and our culture more and more often, they understand that it is a priority for our citizens.

These interviews with patriotic Belarusians who appear in independent media over and over again warm my soul. Thanks to them, you understand: the regime failed to crush free forces in society.

There are very competent, wonderful young people who hold in their minds the image of the country of which I dream.

It gives hope. I’m not talking about some kind of an arrogant faith in the victory: these young people have a lot of work to do in order to get the country back on the real path.

I see Belarus successful in so many areas on this path in the future. First of all, we should return intelligence and education to the country.

Of course, a huge stone that we call Lukashenka's regime, lies on this path. I have been fighting with this regime for almost 25 years and I hope that there will be forces in society, which will move this stone off the path.

– If on the New Year's Eve you could make a wish for the future of Belarus that would come true, then what would it be? But only one wish and not personally for you.

– This is a hard question – one wish…

I would wish Belarus to have the best education system in the world. And that all people suddenly became educated. I do not say smart. Our people are already very smart.

I dream that people will be able to use all the achievements of thought that humanity has collected in its history. So that they suddenly saw it all, understood it and began to live basing on their knowledge. I want the world's best education system to appear in our country.

This is my greatest desire.

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