History May Repeat For Lukashenka

Who is leading the country to empty shelves?

State TV aired strange words about empty shelves in stores and protests, writes Salidarnasс:

"I remember the 1990s very well, the collapse of the Soviet Union. The time when you come to the store and there is nothing there. You stand there, waiting for bread, which is sold out while still hot. You go into a department store — empty shelves.

You could pass by these words, but still, this is not the case when you can remain silent. And there are several reasons for this.

Firstly, in 2020, people did not come out to make 'empty shelves' in stores. Quite the opposite, millions of Belarusians wanted and want to live better. At least, no worse than our Western neighbors.

They took to the streets so that they wouldn't be tortured at police stations for voting for those they thought necessary, and not for those they "should". So that their children would have a future, and not an attempt to drag them back into the past.

The propagandist doesn't want to go back to the "hungry" 90s. But does she understand that the shelves in department stores became empty not because of Poznyak or Gorbachev? But because the USSR wasn't about prosperity and a high standard of living, but about thousands of tanks and missiles, about guns instead of butter. And in the end, it overextended itself in the competition to see who would have more murder weapons.

It is precisely there, into the worst version of the new 90s, that Belarus is heading thanks to completely different people. Or, to be more precise, to one person. The same one who today was touched by the Moscow authorities, who returned to producing 'our Soviet car brands'.

Lukashenka, clinging to the past, makes the country and its economy increasingly vulnerable. An ineffective economy, increasingly reminiscent of the Soviet one. And extremely dependent on Russia, which is currently experiencing a new arms race.

The likelihood that history will repeat itself in general terms is absolutely non-zero. And this means that it will cover us too. And those who wanted change will not be to blame, but those who tried to stop time."

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