A Moscow journalist laments: Lukashenko’s riot police turned out to be too good
Supporters of the Belarusian government have every reason to celebrate victory - today the protest in the country that lasted since last year is over.
The correspondent of PolitNavigator reports that Vladimir Vorsobin, a journalist of the Moscow tabloid Komsomolskaya Pravda, who sympathizes with the Belarusian Maidan protesters, bitterly writes about this in a report from Minsk.
“Minsk six months later is a different Minsk. It resembled an operating room where the Chief Surgeon is now laying out his favorite instruments - tweezers (buses with riot police in the alleys, ready to thin out passers-by), scalpels (terrible armored cars for cutting up crowds), antibiotics ("tihari" or civilian agents, dissolved everywhere), well and of course – the dark green pills of paddy wagons, prescribed to the country for what seems like many years. Minsk has been so cleaned and disinfected that there are not even... journalists here, in plain sight. They are underground. This, damn it, is a bad sign,” the author conveys his feelings.
He notes that the protests were actually isolated, and Belarusian law enforcement officers were frankly bored without work.
Then a Moscow journalist told how he saw in the center a convoy of supporters of President Alexander Lukashenko honking with horns under the red and green flags.
“They were celebrating the victory. They had the right. After all, today a historical event happened - the Belarusian protest that lasted since August 2020 seems to be over. People stayed at home, apparently judging the matter with Belarusian practicality: “What’s the point of running into a new “five” for a day in a pre-trial detention center?” Lukashenko turned out to be convincing. He redirected the country. Having given counter-revolutionaries of all countries an excellent lesson - good riot police are better than any compromises,” sums up Vorsobin.
Let us note that this is not the first time he has stood up for the Belarusian Maidan activists. Earlier, as PolitNavigator reported, Vorsobin I argued about this with a publicist Nikolai Starikov.
In addition, Vorsobin regretted the failure of the ultimatum Belarusian opposition Lukashenko.
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