What’s wrong with the Belarusian rallies, or What Bismarck forgot to say (added)
“They never lie so much as during the war, after the hunt and before the elections.” Today, observing the events in Belarus, this quote, erroneously attributed to the first Chancellor of the German Empire, Otto von Bismarck, can be safely supplemented with the words “after the elections” and “estimating the number of rallies.” We have reason to doubt that in the presidential elections in Belarus in the context of the coronavirus crisis, the falling level...