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The Clock Ticking: Denouement Is About to Come

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The Clock Ticking: Denouement Is About to Come
Photo: reuters

Time works for those who stand on the side of the future.

In a commentary for dw.com, Anton Kashlikau, publisher of the Belarusian Internet magazine 34mag.net, speculates on the time needed for changes to happen in Belarus:

- It will soon be a year since the announcement of the presidential election in Belarus.

We all wish the happy outcome to come sooner. But history (we are living through an undoubtedly historical moment) has no concept of fast-forwarding.

The regime, which has chosen the tactic to "hold out for a while", bets on violence multiplied by time. As if every new arrest and new day distances them from the dreadful pictures of August with hundreds of thousands on the streets. But what does it bring? Over the past months, it has become clear to everyone that one cannot forget everything, talk away, or turn the page.

One remembers everything - this phrase about the victims of the Great Patriotic War had a hidden implication, referring to the victims of the Stalinist terror. Unleashing terror on its people was the worst thing a regime could do. Even the most peace-loving nation would not forgive such a thing. They pretend to control everything, but every new film on ONT, every new statement about the criminal case, every leak from that side proves the opposite. There's no plan.

Both sides want to wear each other down with resistance. The regime hopes that the people's strength and faith will run dry. The people assume that the regime will run out of money. Even yabatkas (those of them who are capable of primitive logic) already feel that nothing lasts forever under the red-green moon.

An entire country up in the air in an extremely uncomfortable position. Waiting for the climax and the denouement. Is this we are getting closer to every day? Many wise columns, accurate observations have been issued recently. But the main one is the image of a battlefield where the past resists the future. One may take it as something pagan-naive, but the winner is always known in such a confrontation.

Therefore, no matter how hard the system may resist, time works for those who are on the side of the future. The main thing is not to waste it.

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