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Lukashenka Missed The Moment

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Lukashenka Missed The Moment
IRYNA KHALIP

People voted for REP; the ruler has no more electorate.

If you enter "REP Trade Union" in every browser, the all-knowing Internet will immediately show you lots of links with headlines "REP Trade Union Helps The Worker To Win The Case", "Headline-Making Case Won By REP Trade Union", "REP Trade Union Helps The Worker To Avoid Lump-Sum Payments", and so on. However, first you will see links related to the trial of REP leaders. One links follow others.

I remember the phrase voiced last year by lawyer of the Trade Union Yury Belyakou: If the REP Trade Union comes to you, you'd better to surrender at once!" It was not a show-off; the Trade Union won almost all cases. People got their jobs back, benefits, had their verdicts revoked. People had articles changed in their employment books. It was clear that one day there would be an attempt to destroy the Trade Union.

Not because of benefits and unpaid salaries. What do these pennies mean for officials? It's just dust. They still believe that someone can live on this salary. They are proud of receiving different salaries (there is no more to be proud of). High officials can't stand that the Trade Union won without a fight. People voted for REP; Lukashenka has no more electorate.

Remember, Lukashenka has been fond of telling stories that the fifth column is people's enemy, a bastard, and it does not worth paying attention to. And true people, working people, will always support their leader, and there are millions of them. From time to time he had a Freudian keyslip, he called people small, but in the main he met the image. He kept it on repeat for so long, was so sincere standing in front of the mirror and enjoying the image of the people's leader that he missed the moment when others became leaders. I mean members of the REP Trade Union.

He thought that a dismissed worker would rush to the nearest Executive Committee to beg and be grateful for a vague promise to "learn the issue". But the worker rushes to a Trade Union. Legal inspectors of REP go to court with him, not to the Executive Committee. And they win the case. You know, it's possible even in our courts, especially if a judge had not been ordered to voice a certain decision. As soon as REP welcomed such outstanding people like Leanid Sudalenka, Zinaida Mikhnyuk, Halina Smirnova, credibility hit all records. It turned out that "small people" had chosen other leaders, and the ruler was informed too late. Opponents were subject to immediate liquidation.

But they manage to survive, bastards. On the contrary, they increase in number and are getting stronger. Last October it turned out that within several months the Orsha district department with only 14 people in it had managed to welcome several hundreds of new members. Leader of the district department Vasil Berasnyou reported. That plenary meeting was held in late October. It was dangerous to enter REP, because Henadz Fyanynich and Ihar Komlik had already been tried for several months. Big-league politics was in the air, not labor disputes. And the Trade Union was expanding. Fyadynich and his teammates managed to cope with things the state with its Belaya Rus and other sourced did not: REP is everywhere now. They are people's leaders.

This is the reason for conviction of Henadz Fyadynich and Ihar Komlik. Of course, it will be conviction, because it's not a labor dispute, but the case when the judge had a call and an order. And those naive still think that the sentence can be a stop sign.

They would better think of their souls.

Iryna Khalip, especially for Charter97.org

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