People With Conscience Leave Vertical, Force Structures

Resistance to the regime is growing.

Political observer Aliaksandr Klaskouski wrote in his Telegram channel about why it will be increasingly difficult for Lukashenka to keep the situation in the country under his control:

- Lukashenka once again hesitated about privatization, and ordered to pay attention to the “educational process” in universities, - Aliaksandr Klaskouski comments on the picture of the day. - Such sentences were voiced when considering personnel issues. And they are inspired, one must think, by the current acute internal political crisis …

The state-run economy - to hell with it, no matter that it is ineffective - it remains important for him in terms of political survival.

It can be assumed that now the authorities will not only mothball the public sector, but will clamp down on the already formed business even more (without touching, of course, their own people). We already see how they take revenge on companies where the leaders have somehow shown solidarity with the supporters of change, helping the repressed.

In general, the attitude of the Belarusian ruler towards the bourgeoisie is akin to Lenin's. In an interview to the Russian journalists on September 8, he said: “We have got bourgeois, rich people, we have IT specialists, whom I created with these hands, providing them with the conditions that no one else can provide. These categories have appeared, they are living well. And what did they want? And they wanted power.”

Indeed, during the rule of Lukashenka, even in the harsh conditions, his models, and the structure of the economy, and the social structure of society have changed markedly. And Lukashenka is right in principle: the more people who create their well-being without relying on government rations, the stronger the need for changes in the society. Entrepreneurs, the middle class, the creative intelligentsia and other advanced categories of the population need rights and freedoms for normal work, self-realization, and a sense of fullness of life.

However, not only them. In these turbulent months, hard workers and pensioners alike come out to protest. And not for a penny, but with political demands. It is evident that not only the “bourgeoisie” has had enough of the anachronistic brutal regime. Moreover, people with a conscience break away from the vertical, power structures, not wanting to identify themselves with the repressive system.

The conservation of the economic model, repression, purges, squeezing out the unwanted from the country are called upon to save Lukashenka's power. Yes, that is probably how you can bring down the protest wave for a while. But these methods in no way remove the causes of the conflict between the regime and a significant part of the society. On the contrary, they sharpen antagonism.

The society has awakened and has shown a high degree of civil and political maturity. Belarusians are completely different now. The resistance of human material is increasing. And it will become more difficult to keep the country under control.