Alright Zig Forums how do we feel about modern day Belarus? Is Lukashanko actually an evil dictator who deserves to be overthrown in the name of "freedom" or is he actually worth a shit? Anyone here live or has lived in Belarus who can tell us about it?
Anything else about Belarus is welcome, at the very leased they have based aesthetics for their propaganda
What a loaded question OP. Nobody in this day and age is simply "an evil dictator who must be overthrown for freedom". More like, in this day and age, an autocratic government struggles to maintain power and stability after the massive shockwave that was the Soviet Union's collapse.
belarus is capitalist
belarus is capitalist
belarus is capitalist
belarus does not need "liberation" from other capitalist countries
belarus does not need "liberation" from other capitalist countries
belarus does not need "liberation" from other capitalist countries
No one that oppose the US deserve this
With the premise that Belraus has the highest standards of all ex socialist countries, he's a putin tier guy who understood that cashing in on soviet nostalgia would allow him to stay in power as long as he wanted too.
The KGB there is still called KGB proudly, there are still tanks and weapons parade besides that it's corrupt as fuck with mid tier standards of living. He's superior to gorby, yelstin and his predecessor but he's not even brezhnev tier.
That said Belraus it's one of the few place where you can revive ☭TANKIE☭ aesthetics, which makes it automatically better than most europe imho
I have some friends, acquired family and an ex lover there.
Friends now live in america an love capitalism, acquired family still shows me we pride their medals, photos and stuff from the USSR times. Specifically the oldest of these is still proud to wear the red army uniform everytime he has to dress formally.
Ex lover is kind of a mixed bag, never happy, doesn't like the weakness of people oustide of her home country and ex socialist states, proud to live there, wishes to have soviet union back but at the same time she low key wishes to have been born in America.
Anyway, fuck her.
It's not easy to enter (you can stay up to 5 days without visa if you are european), people there are always curios about what you are doing here, if you enter if some less than offical way and act strange i'm pretty sure you are gonna be tailed.
Everyone speaks Russian tho.
It's capitalism yes, but also ☭TANKIE☭ Disneyland. From clothes to architecture everything screams WE WHERE THE GREATEST THING TO EVER HAPPEN.
Basically slightly less corrupt Putinism with soviet aesthetics
It's interesting how communism has through contraction become a sort of WE WUZ KANGZ signifier in the former soviet union. It's an argument for the inherent failure of marxism too, it always devolves into a signifier for martial prowess and racial supremacy when it is imposed on a population.
Who let /r/neoliberal in?
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but then
Kek kill yourself liberal, Belarus is literally nothing more than a Putin proxy and life is still better than at least half the USA due to the programs retained from the Soviet days.
