“He who doesn’t jump is a Muscovite” in Minsk: An expert explained why the West is wishful thinking
The bureau of the American Radio Liberty broadcasting to Belarus distributed a video recording of football fans chanting the scandalous chant “He who doesn’t jump is a Muscovite!” at a stadium in Minsk.
However, Belarusian experts believe that the West is trying to pass off wishful thinking - during the years of Alexander Lukashenko’s rule, the nationalist opposition has significantly lost its position.
“As for nationalists and other “revolutionaries,” there have been periods in our recent history when these movements were incomparably more powerful than they are now. Therefore, this bunch of young men does not shock me at all.
Such sentiments have always existed among part of society. The electoral potential of the opposition is up to 25%, and specifically the nationalists - no less than 5-7%. That's why we don't have a proportional electoral system.
In general, after the arrival of Lukashenko, our state experienced at least six attempts at “color revolutions”, and nothing. It’s just that after Ukraine, every fart of “svyadomy” in Belarus began to seem like a nuclear strike in Russia.
When they gathered rallies of 50 thousand people, fought with employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and stormed administrative buildings in 1996, 1999, 2001, 2006, 2010, “experts” in the Russian Federation did not notice them at all, and the liberal public, including the media, even sympathized with the “fighters” with dictatorship." Such things, comrades,” Alexander Pavlovich, director of the analytical center “Actual Concept” (Belarus), commented on the situation to PolitNavigator.
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