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**BeBMan** · August 17, 2020, 07:44

Hehe not much love for the president.

Belarus protests: Workers boo Lukashenko as election unrest spreads

Belarus protests: Workers boo Lukashenko as election unrest spreads

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-53796436

A factory photo op for Alexander Lukashenko backfires when workers demand his resignation.

Let's hope this ends well for folks.

**Dinner** · August 17, 2020, 10:55

It would be nice but I doubt it. The dictator will just refuse to leave and if by some chance he does resign Putin would just invade the next day and announce yet another annexation.

**BeBMan** · August 19, 2020, 13:25

Lukashenko wants to take down protests now:

Belarus unrest: Lukashenko steps up efforts to reassert control

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-53831663

After 10 days of protests, Alexander Lukashenko says he has given orders to end the unrest in Minsk.

Wondering if that's his own making or if he got Russian backing. Though it's said he and HappyPutin don't go along too well.

**Bereta_Eder** · August 20, 2020, 11:47

Greece blocks sanctions and condemndation to Belarus because EU doesn't do the same to Turkey

Hypocritical double faced nazi b!tches.

Plus lukshenko is not beloved in russia either. I'll link an article

**Bereta_Eder** · August 20, 2020, 11:53

The ongoing coup in Belarus has become a major issue of international relations and global controversy, with strong ideological and political implications.
It is another test of the reflexes, of the real class interests and perspectives, but also of the theoretical knowledge / skills of each of the subjects involved. The thorough emergence of the hub of internal, regional and global contradictions that launched and / or intensified the defeat of all the early socialist revolutions in Europe, on the territory of which this conflict is escalating, as a component / front of the ongoing Third World War , requires special discussion beyond the limits of this note (See in this regard: Pateli D. Structural crisis war and prospects for development-way out of systemic impasses for the country and humanity , Pateli D. The logic of history and the tasks of the time. Part of the Epimeter in the 2nd edition of the book: Vasyulin B.A. The Logic of History. Issues of theory and methodology.
& The October Revolution and Early Socialism in the Logic of History. Issues of revolutionary theory, methodology and practice. Των Β.Α. Vaziulin, M. Dafermou, G. Kakarinou, D. Koulou and D. Pateli , KPSM, 1917).
Why are they targeting Belarus now? They have many reasons. First, from the mid-1990s (when Lukashenko took over the leadership) there was a strong attempt to preserve the achievements of the Soviet economy and the country's politics and development on that basis. Mr Lukashenko has risen to prominence in the wake of robbery privatizations and the ensuing crimes of mafia capital, chanting pro-USSR slogans calling for a "modern market socialism" with "social justice" and social structures. Through frightening difficulties (sanctions, international blockade, suffocating pressure from the West, suffocating pressure from the Russian oligarchic capital that was eyeing its potential and resources) the free health and education system was restored,kolkhozes and sovkhozes in the agricultural sector were strengthened and upgraded, and in particular, Not only was privatization and deindustrialisation halted, but the country's inherited industrial base was strengthened and developed . It is the only country that emerged from the dissolution of the USSR which managed to significantly (150%) develop its industrial production in important sectors :

Production of vehicles, means of transport with the flagship industry of heavy-duty dump trucks BELAZ (БЕЛАЗ) which holds 1/3 of the world market of this type of vehicles, necessary in construction and in the mining sector
Production by MAZ industry of trucks, buses and other means of transport.
Production of agricultural tractors and agricultural machinery.
Automotive: production and assembly of private vehicles in a joint venture with Chinese Geely and other groups.
Production of electrical equipment, electric motors, conductors, transformers of modern types.
Oil industry with exports to EU countries, Russia, Ukraine and elsewhere.
Fertilizer industry from the giant possessions Belarusian Potash Company, Belaruskali etc. Together with the Russian Uralkali, they are the largest suppliers of potassium salts in the world market.
Metallurgy, in the capacity of which more than 80 companies are active, the most important of which is the group ( holding ) "Belarusian Metallurgical Plant".

The country is developing new technologies and international collaborations in many fields (nanotechnology, rocket technology, space, PC and software). It has significant armed forces and a war industry. Almost all of the heavy special vehicles-carriers of weapons systems of the Russian military-industrial complex are of Belarusian production. In addition, the lame (mainly on paper) existing "Union State" Russia-Belarus, is associated with a single defense space-doctrine, common bases-facilities and infrastructure. Of strategic importance is the Early Alert and radio location base as well as the anti-aircraft-missile protection systems on the territory of the country, with an upgraded role,due to the concentration of forces of the US-NATO war machine on the border with Poland (a country that becomes a stronghold of this machine in Europe) and the three Baltic countries. The country, despite the time-consuming destructive efforts of the axis, is not deprived of international support. Participates as an observer in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) [consists of 6 members (Kazakhstan, China, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan), & 6 observer countries (Afghanistan, Belarus, India, Iran, Mongolia, 6 "Dialogue partners" (Azerbaijan, Armenia, Cambodia, Nepal, Turkey, Sri Lanka). , Egypt, Syria etc. waiting countries].It is a founding member of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) [an international organization of regional economic integration with 5 members: Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia].
Is the "Lukashenko regime" a puppet of the "Putin regime" as various irrelevant, unhistorical and ignorant "geopolitical analysts", professors [1] and sad journalists often claim ?
It is obvious that even the form of a state capitalism with important elements of central state planning-intervention in a small country of Eastern Europe (area: 207,600 km ², population: 9,408,400 inhabitants) could not be tolerated for long with these characteristics by the forces of capital, not only the West, but also by the capitalist-restorative ruling class of Russia. The latter saw and still sees as a necessary evil the "Lukashenko regime" in a relationship of "fraternal" competition. model ”of his country as a threat to its own territory. According to opinion polls of the time, in any elections in the Russia-Belarus Union or in Russia, Lukashenko's candidacy would secure an overwhelming majority.ικό The Russian capital oligarchy has sought and continues to seek the integration of the economy and society of the "sister country" into its own terms of the "big brother": on the basis of its own of the neoliberal "market economy", that is, with the condition that privatizations in its favor and the annihilation of every institution, element and acquis of the USSR that "spoils the post-Soviet market". The systematic propaganda against Lukashenko and the "demanding and capricious little sister of Belarus" by the Russian media is unspeakable.on the condition of privatizations in its favor and the annihilation of every institution, element and acquis of the USSR that "spoils the post-Soviet market". The systematic propaganda against Lukashenko and the "demanding and capricious little sister of Belarus" by the Russian media is unspeakable.on the condition of privatizations in its favor and the annihilation of every institution, element and acquis of the USSR that "spoils the post-Soviet market". The systematic propaganda against Lukashenko and the "demanding and capricious little sister of Belarus" by the Russian media is unspeakable.
Russian interventions - not just during the traditional annual oil and gas price negotiations / extortions in Belarus and the reciprocal benefits - are often rude and provocatively arrogant. Here are two of the most recent scandals:

The Russian side in the last presidential election , according to Belarusian sources, unofficially but clearly, tried to scandalously promote its own candidate: Viktor Babariko, until 12.5.2020 Chairman of the Board of the bank from the capital of Belgazprombank, 99% is jointly owned by Gazprom and Gazprombank. This gentleman, according to information from the competent authorities announced by Lukashenko, is involved in capital flows, has accounts abroad, property abroad (in Cyprus, Latvia, London)…
In the run-up to the election, on the night of July 24-25, 2020 , Belarusian special forces arrested 33 mercenaries of the notorious Russian Private Military Company "Wagner" in a sanatorium on the outskirts of Minsk . The motives, operational tasks and clients of this dark mission, which involves the services of Ukraine and various countries, remain unclear to this day. during the election campaign ". The mercenaries were released and returned to Russia on August 16, 2020. Apparently, the secret information about the scandal remains as papers for the upcoming bazaars…

With the bazaars and the short-sighted management of the war in Ukraine (and the targeted manipulation of the Donbass Anti-Fascist-Anti-oligarchic Uprising), with its short-sighted market tactics in Belarus and with the corresponding manipulations on all fronts of the Russia's bourgeoisie and its political personnel are captives of global and internal economic, social, war, administrative, ideological, etc. contradictions, the resolution of which is in principle impossible from bourgeois positions. The Belarusian coup is rapidly demonstrating the historical constraints of the Russian bourgeoisie that make it a dangerous anachronism. The very survival of Russia and the countries that emerged in the post-Soviet space,the salvation of these peoples and others who are being tested by the Euro-Atlantic axis is impossible from the positions of neoliberal capitalism. As I have mentioned elsewhere (Pateli D. The anti-fascist uprising in Ukraine as an episode of the Third World Imperialist War ), it is impossible from these positions the basic re-industrialization, a breakthrough in science and technology, the transition of the economy to a war trajectory. The inconsistency of this policy (but also of all political and ideological forces that do not propose alternative ways of salvation of the country and the people) is manifested in the background of the ongoing coup in Belarus, the outcome of which will depend on the directions and rhythms of global force correlations.
Every objective observer realizes that a country under Lukashenko was forced to walk on a tightrope, more precisely - on a noose of the stretched rope of the West-Russia-China tug-of-war, which led to ridiculous political upheavals in and leads to the limits of its popularity-legitimation, to the existence of dissatisfaction with its long-term rule, to the manipulation of which for its own benefit the would-be foreign conquerors and their local organs bet.
To achieve the coup as a "hybrid operation" on one of the strategic fronts of the ongoing war, several scenarios are activated from the Euro-Atlantic (US-NATO-EU) regime change manual / manual, the experience of Ukraine and Venezuela consequent ideological management, propaganda, "brainwashing" in a pan-army "against totalitarianism" (see also Patelis D. Anti-communism and ideologies about "totalitarianism"…). From the activation of NGOs in good cooperation with agents, diplomats, etc. in the "spontaneous popular uprising" (Maidan type), the long-awaited denunciation of the pre-emptive "fraud" of the elections (regardless of the result), until the self-proclamation and recognition of an "exiled government" (of the Guayaquin type) Тихановская Светлана Георгиевна), which the Western media, wikipedia and parrots unanimously consider victorious in the elections, and in fact with a percentage of 80% against 10% of Lukashenko, without the slightest documentation…
All this is happening in conditions of rapid strengthening of the US-NATO military presence in Poland, the Baltic countries and the wider region, with the presence of Greece. It goes without saying that the current and former governing bodies of the Euro-Atlantic axis in Greece, while showing no trace of understanding the complexity and stakes of the conflict there, drag us into all the war adventures of imperialism, making the country vulnerable.… Thus they engage in childish obstructions in the issuance of a text on the forthcoming decision for the next sanctions against the people of Belarus, linking their consent to it with acceptance of "favorable" for their confrontation with the Turkish bourgeoisie rhetoric… strategy… T …
We have to admit that the method of this coup also has excellent penetration and effectiveness, not only in the traditional public of the regime's capitalist vanguard and the "silent majority" in its favor in other EU countries and in Greece, but also in its circles. of the more Euro-Atlantic postmodern "left" and "left-mindedness" τελευταία The latter is now moving more and more steadily in the prescribed regime trajectory, on the basis of seats of dependent reflexes and "correct" stereotypes-clichés: In "outcast countries" under "bloodthirsty slaughterers" (Iraq, Yugoslavia, Libya, Syria, Bolivia, Venezuela, the People's Republic of Korea, Iran, Yemen, Nicaragua, Cuba, etc.) Belarus is simply added. … So,The total and blatant condemnation of the "Lukashenko regime", as the last bastion-fossil of "Soviet totalitarianism", tends to become a self-evident and self-evident position of "identity" (with a of the left mind »…
The tangle of Belarus is extremely complex, with the roles of most domestic and international players dark to toxic. However, a major stake for the Euro-Atlantic axis is one: the final dismantling of the last surviving remnants of the USSR and the isolation-encirclement of Russia in a desperate attempt by the powers that lose permanently and irrevocably to dominate the world at least or delay their immersion, even at the cost of a global holocaust. Any discussion of Belarus cut off from this strategy works delusionally and extremely dangerously. So the issue is not whether we like every Lukashenko, but what interests and what prospects are at stake in this region and globally, in the current context and era.
Let the supporters of the Belarusian coup know exactly who they are aligned with and who they are opposed to on a programmatic basis.
Here are the US-EU-NATO-Belarussian opposition program positions:

closed borders & hostile relations with Russia,
ban on "pro-Russian organizations" and deactivation of retransmission of Russian television channels and overall operation and circulation of Russian media,
exit from the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) and application for immediate NATO membership,
Enforcement of education in the Belarusian language (practically a ban on Russian, which is the mother tongue of the vast majority of the population)

This is the program called "Reform Revitalization Package for Belarus" or " Recovery Package" of the major opposition under the Western elite Svetlana Tikhanovskaya (see Google ).
In more detail, this "popular" and "revolutionary" program of the opposition, which some "leftists" are rushing to support, provides the following:

rapid and drastic "de-communistization and de-Sovietization" of Belarus;
the imposition of (originating from the feudal occupation of the country from Poland-Lithuania and the civil war and the troops of the Wehrmacht Battalion collaborators) the red and white flag and the coat of arms "Pursuit", now symbols of the nationalist-fascists under the national-state symbols.
imposing Belarus as the sole state language and granting the Russian language the status of a foreign language of international communication;
the spread of new "national heroes from the 19th and 20th centuries", in particular the leader of the uprising against the Russian Empire Kasto Kalinovsky "as the political founder of the modern nation of Belarus, symbolizing the struggle of the Belarusians for freedom and independence";
adaptation of the armed forces to NATO standards, start of training of military personnel with the deployment of the Belarusian army in training institutions and centers of NATO countries, submission of applications for membership in the North Atlantic Alliance;
assign the names of "Belarusian national heroes" to military units and educational institutions in Belarus;
to finally carry out large-scale privatizations, to establish "complete freedom" in the land and real estate market, which will ensure the attraction of investments and the "full utilization of the potential of the Multinational Companies";
restructuring, modernization, partial or complete privatization of large and medium-sized state-owned enterprises;
ban on the sale of Belarus infrastructure facilities to Russian companies;
preparing infrastructure for Belarus' accession to the future United States liquefied natural gas supply system in Eastern Europe;
inventory (privatization) and optimization of the number of institutions and employees in the field of education;
optimization (privatization) of health and care structures, abolition of state pricing of services provided by private centers;
reducing the number of hospital beds;
optimizing the healthcare management system and developing cost-effective technologies, while reviewing existing disease treatment protocols, with an emphasis on promoting cost-effective healthcare methods with private financial criteria;
promoting and developing a competitive environment in the housing market through its privatization and the development of private enterprises in all utilities (water, sewerage, electricity, telephony, networks, etc.);
full performance in the private business of hotel facilities, baths, household waste-sewage treatment, construction and maintenance of roads, squares, parks and parks, but also funeral homes.

The ban on the Russian media implies the mandatory activation / imposition of ideological mechanisms controlled by Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Ukraine (see US-EU-NATO), which is a raw ideological based on the ideologies of primitive anti-communism, anti-Sovietism and anti-Russianism. The slogans "communists and Russians on the gallows" are already increasing!
The autocephaly of the church in Belarus is also envisaged, as well as "orthodox national-nationalist" education in the education system in the little-known Belarusian language (rather dialect). The new bourgeois regimes in the territory of the states that emerged from the dissolution of the USSR and the capitalist restoration under the auspices of the Euro-Atlantic axis, as a result of "divide and rule", must have "independent" constructed "national, religious and Abusing history (Belarus has always been a geographical designation of Russia's Northeastern European regions) and being imbued with an ideology of nationalist hatred backed by corresponding institutions and ideological mechanisms.
Here is another shining field of glory for the repetition of that "feat" of the diplomacy-geopolitics of the American-inspired rascals (agents and / or "volunteers" of the Patriarchate of Constantinople and the Hierarchy of the Holy Orthodox Church) the miserable divisive recognition of the Euro-Atlantic rascals of Ukraine … In the absence of perspective, the barbaric multifaceted imperialist war must turn to ideological foundations, activating also medieval dogmatic ideologies, "constructs"
All this is done in the spirit of a fascist nationalism if not fascism, to which attempts are being made to attribute the characteristics of a "popular movement". After all, as we have seen in the Baltic states of the EU and NATO and in the Kiev junta, Nazism is well passed as patriotism and Europeanism και In this climate the Euro-Atlantic "fascist international" of the region (Ukraine, Poland, Lithuania etc.), assisting morally, materially and with "fighters". As the notorious Ukrainian neo-Nazi assassin of Donbass Dmitry Yaros's assault battalions admits, he has trained Belarusian extremists and taken part in actions against Lukashenko .
The pole of the declining power of the imperialist centers under the US, to avoid bankruptcy and to maintain world hegemony, to maintain global control of regions and resources, and to undermine, destabilize, destroy or at least prevent any antagonism. , is obliged to escalate the conflicts, to constantly activate explosions in the " geostrategic arcs of destabilization" that it plans.
The ongoing Minsk coup demonstrates that the fascist coup in Kiev, as well as those in Bolivia and Venezuela, were pilot projects to be propagated by the current Euro-Atlantic axis in the context of the "hybrid war". The colonization of the Eurozone region and the EU, Ukraine and the post-Soviet countries (with the corresponding spread and consolidation of Russophobia, anti-Sovietism and anti-communism) are components of a single strategy, driven by a single center. As in FP2, so today, in FP3, on the increasingly fascist or fascist front from above, only an Anti-Fascist Democratic and Anti-imperialist Front can be confronted. The transnational and transnational forms and the ways of the imperialist attack, dictate from the very beginning the international character of this front, on the basis of the dialectical unity of patriotism and internationalism.
Communists in crisis and war are not neutral, they do not keep "equal distances" in every crisis and conflict, especially when the acquis of the Great October Socialist Revolution is at stake. They do not build alliances based on out-of-place and out-of-date abstract ahistorical principles with the "pure and undefiled" imaginary forces of the hereafter of "pure ideas". They formulate their tactics on the basis of the creative application / development of Marxism, of theoretical strategic prediction, making the best use of the existing real action forces available (including the legacies of the early socialist revolutions and nationalist anti-liberals). the contradictions of the world capitalist system. Involved in the conflict,with their own flags and guidelines, strengthening the most consistent anti-imperialist forces, grafting and radicalizing the movement in a revolutionary direction, with their own strategy, which is the only savior and victor for the people of Greece and for all peoples: with the revolutionary perspective of socialism-communism, of the real unification of humanity!of the true unification of humanity!of the true unification of humanity!
* Dimitris Patelis is if. Professor of Philosophy at the Technical University of Crete, member of the Revolutionary Theory Group, the International School "The Logic of History" and the General Assembly. of the Association "We who Studied in Socialism".
[1] It is humiliating for the institution the increasingly frequent public appearance in the media of "materially competent" university and other "valid and reputable" analysts, who speak as representatives of the press office of the ministries and / or as US, NATO delegates. , EU and other benevolent institutions, praising the actions of the transnational regime of the axis and ruminating its crude ideologies with "patriotic" and / or cosmopolitan stomp and pose on a case-by-case basis…

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**BlackCat** · August 20, 2020, 14:10

**Bereta_Eder** · August 20, 2020, 14:16

Even the alleged disarming character of laughter doesn't work here

**Dinner** · August 20, 2020, 14:51

So the mad Greek approves of the dictatorship in White Russia. Typical.

**BlackCat** · August 20, 2020, 15:39

Originally posted by Bereta_Eder View Post

Even the alleged disarming character of laughter doesn't work here

That laugh was because the scribble brought me back to my teenage years back in the 70'ties where there were locals that would write such things and really mean it. Today, only some very few nutters fantasizing about a communist revolution would write such.

Especially this :

Dimitris Patelis is if. Professor of Philosophy at the Technical University of Crete, member of the Revolutionary Theory Group, the International School "The Logic of History" and the General Assembly. of the Association "We who Studied in Socialism"

made me laugh, I didn't think that any sane person would present him/herself in that way today

**BeBMan** · August 21, 2020, 05:45

Looks like in Russia they now what to do in such a situation - suddenly the Navalny guy dropped ill, but it was totally not poison

(not that he's great policy wise, but hey, why use politics to compete for majorities when you got polonium)

**Serb** · August 21, 2020, 14:39

Originally posted by BeBro View Post

Hehe not much love for the president.

Belarus protests: Workers boo Lukashenko as election unrest spreads

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-53796436

A factory photo op for Alexander Lukashenko backfires when workers demand his resignation.

Let's hope this ends well for folks.

Says the worshiper of Angela who is in power as long as Lukashenko.

**Serb** · August 21, 2020, 14:43

Originally posted by Dinner View Post

It would be nice but I doubt it. The dictator will just refuse to leave and if by some chance he does resign Putin would just invade the next day and announce yet another annexation.

Did Ukraine end up well?
IDIOT!
They end-up as a complete F*CK-UP, a failed state, just like any other revolution you have supported (and initiated in the first place).

YOU ARE JUST BRAINWASHED/OR LYING MOTHERF*CKERS, who doesn't see a thing or learn a thing!!!

**Serb** · August 21, 2020, 14:43

A ****ing idiots!

**Serb** · August 21, 2020, 14:44

Originally posted by BeBro View Post

Looks like in Russia they now what to do in such a situation - suddenly the Navalny guy dropped ill, but it was totally not poison

(not that he's great policy wise, but hey, why use politics to compete for majorities when you got polonium)

Drugs kill, sh!t happens, idiots never change!

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