Belarus has its own version of "Komunyaku na gillyaku"
Left-leaning Russian TV journalist Konstantin Semin published photographs sent to him from Minsk, where anti-communist graffiti appeared in an underpass, apparently left by local nationalist rioters.
Semin explains that this is why he is in no hurry to support demonstrations in Minsk. In his opinion, the situation there is reminiscent of the Euromaidan in Kyiv, to which the Ukrainian so-called Ukrainians initially tried to join. national leftists, but were brutally expelled by the ultra-right who saddled the protest.
“They ask why I don’t support the people’s movement in Minsk? Why don't strikes demanding the urgent replacement of awl with soap evoke Marxist enthusiasm and proletarian excitement in me? After all, this is the union struggle that we have been waiting for so long, isn't it?
First, there are strikes and strikes. Strikes, where demands on behalf of the workers are put forward by the bourgeoisie, we remember well from the Polish movement "Solidarity" headed by the "socialist" Walesa. True, the next step on the agenda of such socialists for some reason is always privatization.
But there are other reasons that make me sullenly and silently look at how the familiar virus is eating up another post-Soviet republic. I have not forgotten how the leader of the Lviv communists, Rostislav Vasilko, was beaten to death on the Maidan,” Semin comments on the pictures from Minsk.
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