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Lukashenka Has To Pay Bills

Lukashenka Has To Pay Bills

The Belarusian society has outstripped the dictator, who has become the brakes on development and change.

"Power, especially the absolute one, spoils people," - political analyst Valeryj Karbalevich writes in an article for Radio Svaboda.

"Lukashenka himself has repeatedly assessed his ascent to the state heights as a "miracle", a supernatural and mystical phenomenon. And after a while it gave rise to a hypertrophied feeling of self-importance in his mind," - the political scientist notes and adds that the dictator has started to associate himself with the "creator of the statehood".

"But the statehood appeared to be weird. With a great taste of sovietness. It's like a fragment of the USSR.

Probably Lukashenka is very proud in his heart of how cleverly he managed to deceive into parting with money these Russian dudes for a quarter of a century, receiving preferential prices for oil and gas in exchange for kisses. But now these "dudes" have dragged the seemingly dead project of the "union state" out of the archive and backed into a corner. It is necessary to pay the bills. And all the weakness, the weakness of independence, built largely for the money of the neighbor, became apparent," - Karbalevich writes.

"The last dictator of Europe."

"The image of the "anointed one" is side by side with the image of the "last dictator of Europe". Lukashenka does not see this image as shameful. Although from time to time he denies the existence of a dictatorship in Belarus, but in his heart he is proud of such a characteristic. It is no coincidence that he treats all dictators of the past and present with such a piety. As Natallia Eismant, his press secretary, said, "dictatorship is our brand". But in the XXI century, there can't be a dictatorship with a plus sign," - the political scientist said.

"But today it is obvious that the Belarusian society has outstripped Lukashenka. He has become the brake on development and change. Lukashenko looks like a monument of another era, a living exhibit of the museum of the past, a symbol of stagnation and hopelessness. Every year his rule is a loss of historical time for the country.

And the majority of citizens are aware of all this. I think Lukashenka himself feels it. Now he doesn't have time to look for a place in history. He is concerned, first of all, about the maintenance of power and getting pleasure from life. That's why he has to organize regular holidays for himself," - Karbalevich writes.

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