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Yury Khashchevatski: "Russian World" in Belarus Is Lukashenka And Power

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Yury Khashchevatski: "Russian World" in Belarus Is Lukashenka And Power

The Belarusian community builds up a fence against this disaster.

Well-known Belarusian film director Yury Khashchevatski, who has recently produced a new documentary "This crazy, crazy, crazy "Russian world", stated that in the interview to Radio Svaboda.

"The concept of the "Russian world" is based on property of people"

- On March 16 Belsat TV channel first presented the documentary "This crazy, crazy, crazy "Russian world". First of all, Belarusian spectators know you as the author of the legendary documentary "Ordinary President" about Aliaksandr Lukashenka. Your second film "Lobotomy" is about conflict about Russia and Georgia. And now you focus on the "Russian world". Why?

- The thing is that when you try to find the root of the problem we worry about, you have to move in different directions and to follow many things. Anyway, the investigation shows that we are under serious imperial influence of Russia. And I find interesting the core of this influence, methods and instruments of the Russian policy as tools to twist the situation and atmosphere in neighbouring countries with hard Russian influence.

After all, this is what we have been fighting with for the last 25 years. Anyway, the root of our problems we should seek there.

- And what conclusions did you come to? What are peculiarities of the "Russian world"? Well, it's a broad philosophical topic for a short interview to cover. But what is the difference between the "Russian world" and the rest of the world, civilized countries?

- In my documentary I cite a profound idea of a brilliant interlocutor Yury Afanasiyeu, who, unfortunately, passed away. Shortly before his death, I was lucky to interview him, and he gave a very precise difference between Western civilization and the Russian one on the territory of the Russian Empire.

The concept of the Western world is based on land ownership. The concept of the "Russian world" is based on people ownership." And if you try to imagine even our power, the Belarusian one, you will realize that this is a continuation of this concept. Every person is a bug, every boss is your master, he can do whatever he wants with you. Even an ordinary riot policeman thinks you're his slave and thinks he can do whatever he wants. And it's like that up to the very top. We live under "when I want your opinion, I will rattle your cage" system.

And despite the fact that these "Potemkin villages" are built in the form of democratic institutions; allegedly these are the "Parliament", a court, a civil society, "elections". But they are just fiction, or, as now commonly said, "simulacrum". And in fact, it is a usual slavery, which lasts for several centuries. It's serfdom but in a different wrapper, which is called "the contract system".

-In the film you reason that the person in Russia is considered as fuel, fuel for the state. But why are people willing to play this role? Why do they not protest against this, why do not try to quit this role?

- This is the habit of centuries, which has somehow twisted the mentality of people. People have stopped fighting for their dignity, and started struggling for being someone's masters.

Therefore, this slavishness, which is the reverse side of aggression, rooted into a person.

On the other hand, dignity and respect for human rights starts with respect for property rights. I wonder how the rights of an individual have evolved in Europe. First, it was about property rights. The rights of an individual followed it. After all, an individual began to be perceived not just as a biological organism, but as a person who had his home, family, property.

As far as our situation is concerned, we have never had this property right indefeasible. But this is the ground of the Roman law, the basis of the entire legal system of the Western civilization. We say the law doesn't work, and we need a strongman. Why? Because the main thing is violated, there are no class of owners who can force the authorities to obey the law. Society begins to support a strongman, as there is no other way to impose at least some freedom, some laws. And as a result, the society supports the power that makes it serfs; it's a vicious circle.

- You quote Paznyak in the film: "Democracy in Russia is a dark tunnel with Yeltsin on a tank at the end." You admit that you first took it as anti-Russian statement, but now you are more inclined to agree with Paznyak.

- Not just "now". I understood he was right in 1991, when I saw Yeltsin on the tank. There were tanks in Transnistria, and in Moscow in 1993, and in Vilnius. There were events in Tbilisi, the history itself, the course of events proved that Zyanon Paznyak was absolutely right. And so it continues.

-Your film symbolically ends with the final chord of the "Russian world" -the events in the Donbas, negotiations of separatists, who discuss the downed plane.

-Yes, they make a happy photo on the background of this plane. Look at their happy faces. That is, people who are deprived of any notion of morality, humanism. They like to kill, destroy, knee everyone. Watch the film to the end and you will understand what we are dealing with. We deal with degeneration of human race.

- Probably it's the key question - how much "Russian world" is there in Belarus? Do Belarusians have any historical chance to distance from it and get rid of metastases of the "Russian world"?

- Belarusian rulers, officials are adherents to the "Russian world". Despite the fact that they try to pretend like they are "fighting for independence". But they do not, they stand for their own independence, for their right to stay in power forever, or even to devolve power. They stand for their money, the right to turn everyone into serfs. This is the continuation of the "Russian world". Therefore, the "Russian world" in Belarus is, first of all, our power, starting from Lukashenka and ending with the last official.

As for ordinary people, here, I think, the situation is better. After all, the Belarusians gradually became convinced of aggressiveness and rudeness, especially where "guests from Russia" are. They experience rudeness on roads, in shops, during communication. And it seems to me that Belarusians are understanding it. Especially our youth, the part that is well-educated, which understands that the "Russian world" deprives them from the opportunity to express themselves, to build a career and decent life. In this sense, the development of our society, the Belarusian one, is the fence against the disaster coming from the East.

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