Why Protests in Belarus Won't Stop

There are five reasons to win.

And in Minsk, and in Khabarovsk, and everywhere in the post-Soviet space, groups that illegally hold power over countries hope that they will be recognized, that they will agree with their power, as with the power of the Bolsheviks, that they will be considered "real" presidents, ministers, generals, businessmen. They see that a protest movement is growing against them, that a fire breaks out here and there. But they keep hoping, what if people get bored, and what if they get scared, and what if they get tired and there will be peace and quiet again. If you steal people's goods, falsify elections, defiantly poison or imprison a few who have seen the light, the majority will still bat their eyes in front of the TV screen, believing the well-paid agitators of the authorities.

And there is none of this more, neither in Belarus, nor in Khabarovsk, nor in Kushtau, nor in the docks of Vladivostok, nor in Bishkek - anywhere.

Yes, people may get tired of protesting, but their views will not change from this. Rather the opposite. Realizing that the robbers who seized power in an amicable way will not leave, people will look for other methods of struggle. The initiative is in their hands.

For some time, the protest can move from the streets to the kitchen so that at the first slack or mistake of the powerful robbers, it can again go out to the square with tenfold strength. At the same time, discontent will dilute the defenders of the regime. It is natural for the security officials to stand guard over the state but to stand guard over the clique of bandits hated by the people?

Understanding the essence of the current government will illuminate the minds of an increasing number of citizens, and soon the regime will no longer be able to convene a sufficient number of accomplices for defense. Everyone will almost slowly disappear before the contemptuous gaze of their neighbors, fellow villagers, and colleagues.

Why didn't they disappear in the Bolshevik era? There is a whole set of unique factors here.

First, the Bolsheviks falsely proclaimed the popular idea of social justice in a society suffering from long-standing social injustice. Therefore, many followed them. What kind of social justice can the current ones talk about? What to appeal to? To Navalny?

Secondly, at first, the Bolsheviks began to share the plundered with the majority of the people - land plots to the peasants, etc. Many were flattered and got on the hook of complicity in the robbery. These not only did not share but were ready to squeeze out the last of the robbed people. And therefore, they evoked universal hatred.

Thirdly, from these, seduced and bound by the mutual responsibility of murder, the Bolsheviks formed their own power structures. Nowadays, there are no deceived or tied in blood on such a scale as there are no hundreds of thousands killed at the hands of the Chekists. The current power bloc, unlike the Bolsheviks, is unreliable and draws its strength from nostalgia for the past a hundred years ago, and not in the hope of a future happy life under the sun of a wise leader.

Fourth, few consider the current leaders to be wise demigods. They are seen as the leaders of the gang, even by their own, and the leaders are easily changed.

Fifth, the Internet has basically destroyed the monopoly on truth. The Iron Curtain was scrapped in the dashing 90s along with copper wires and high-precision machines. Now everyone can get whatever information they want. Revolutions are now made not by leaflets, but by telegram channels. And the powerful bandits have practically no weapons against them. Therefore, young people living in a world of digital technologies are all against them, and Soloviev can still fool the elderly. But how much can provincial old people, also deprived of decent pensions, medicine, and everything else?

Therefore, hoping for deflation of the protest is a pitiful self-deception of the authorities. Even if instead of hundreds of thousands, only dozens of people come out to the square, nothing has changed strategically. Those who remained at home did not change their thoughts and did not lose their hatred of tyrants and their self-respect. They just stayed, speaking in partisan language, at the rear base, and they will certainly speak themselves and bring their comrades when the moment comes.

And the moment will come soon. There is no doubt about that. The power, which nobody believes and which nobody loves, cannot exist for long.

Andrey Zubov, Facebook