"And Then The Whole Regime Is In Shock."

15.09.2025, 10:43
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Stirlitz gave himself away.

What one can love Belarusian officials for is their directness. Shamelessly hanging their agenda on the interlocutor's ears is a trademark style of our functionaries. Fortunately, there is someone to learn from. The chief functionary successfully combines opposite points of view not only in one speech, but even within one sentence. The master, in a word, writes planbmedia.io

And how good it was!

The modest students, meanwhile, try to keep up.

The other day, for example, the deputy chairman of the Brest Regional Executive Committee Mikhail Batsenko got a platform to express his valuable opinion in the Polish publication Nczas info. Not the Wall street journal, of course. But for regional purposes it is quite suitable.

In the yellow pages of the ultra-right magazine Mikhail Leonidovich recalled with nostalgia the old times. When all the border crossings were working, buses and trains were running, and private citizens regularly went "for purchases".

In that almost candy-buffet period there was a great friendship and close cooperation between Brest region and the nearest Polish voivodships.

And then (characteristically, suddenly) everything broke down.

Mr. Batsenko is sincerely perplexed as to what exactly happened. In 2022, for some reason, some unpleasant sanctions were imposed, the border was closed almost completely, and Polish colleagues even stopped responding to letters.

Reading the interview and directly feel this mixture of indignation and incomprehension. Just like the character from "Our Russia" Ludwig Aristarkhovich, remember? He also spread his hands, made big eyes and said, "And who did it?"

I mean, according to the Brest official, it turns out that the Belarusians are great guys. Peaceful people. They traded, traveled, didn't touch anyone. They went to the market and to Bedronka in Bialystok.

And then these Poles unilaterally, unilaterally, without the slightest provocation from our side, and it's unclear why they got spoiled. They no longer wanted to cooperate. Suddenly.

Belarusian doublethink

The only thing that gives Stirlitz away is the fact that in the interview he justifies himself for something he supposedly does not even suspect.

Nobody asked him, but just in case you can mention, for example, that no Belarusian military is fighting in Ukraine.

And that we have the death penalty, but nobody has been using it for a long time.

And that freedom of speech is excellent. You just need to choose your words wisely.

And as for the way political opponents are treated in Belarus, that, excuse me, is our internal affair. And internal affairs should be treated with respect, understanding and not to meddle in them.

In general, we are good people in Belarus. And these sanctions, which don't bother us at all, are more harmful to Poland. Simple Polish entrepreneurs are sad at a half-empty market without Belarusian buyers. Polish farmers don't know where to put their Polish apples. In general, the sanctions, in fact, harm only

Poland. That's why it would be worthwhile to cancel them.

I admire you, really.

I think it's such a rare and unique gift to ignore objective reality.

No, of course, one can imagine that working in the system, one doesn't notice the dictatorship. Or doesn't see dictatorship as a problem. Well, dictatorship and dictatorship, so what!

And complicity in the war, let's say, also a person did not notice. Well, suddenly. Our soldiers in Ukraine really (so far) are not there. And the fact that missiles were launched from our territory - it was not us who launched them!

And if we are talking about the supply of components to the Russian military sector - it is still necessary to figure out whether it is really the military sector.

And let's say that the comrade has not heard about the smashing of Polish language schools. Well, he doesn't read the news and he doesn't subscribe to the GUBOPiK's Telegram channel.

And he hasn't heard about Poczobut. Who is Poczobut?

And why are you offended?

But it is very difficult to imagine that the deputy head of Brest region does not know about what is happening in this region.

Because it is there that hundreds of migrants storm the five-meter Polish fence every day. And bulldozers raze Polish cemeteries to the ground. And it's hard not to know about the oppression of Pole card holders, because every second person in Brest has one.

It turns out that this way of doing business is not due to lack of information.

It's the art of doublethink. When you know exactly about everything that is going on, but with marvelous simplicity you keep saying that black is white.

And then all the government officials are shocked: How can the border be closed? And ordinary Belarusians? They are in line! They are crying! (There follows a series of reports: everyone is really crying and rushing to Poland). And our exercises are peaceful. We can leave out arbitrary detentions of Polish citizens, so as not to confuse the gullible reader.

"And Then The Whole Regime Is In Shock."

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