Love this podcast support this show through the a cast supporter feature

It's up to you how much you give and there's no regular commitment. Just click the link in the show description to support now. It was political achievement and a political move to talk to a journalist in the street,

to talk on political topics or something related to

you know the society and God forbid to talk about the president of the republic. There are also unknown unknowns the ones we don't know we don't know.

One day all of the facts in about 30 years time will be published.

When genocide has been carried out in this country almost with a trinity it is near from briefly people talk about

intervention.

They will be met with fire, fury, and frankly power, the likes of which this world has never

seen before. This episode was reported just one day after the capital of the United States of America was stormed.

Though the subject is Belarus, a country that is pretty small and pretty far away.

We think there's some relevant lessons to be taken from it.

We hope you'll enjoy the episode.

Hello and welcome to Angry Planet. I'm Jason Fields.

And I'm Matthew Gault.

Sometimes referred to as Europe's last dictator,

Alexander Lukashenko has ruled Belarus since shortly after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Lukashenko, formerly in charge of a collective farm, has kept a tight grip on power and on the past.

Belarus has kept Soviet symbols and economic policies long after they've gone out of favor elsewhere.

Elections have been held regularly in the country, but have been neither free nor fair.

The latest in August 2020 is considered to be the least fair of all. Since then, there's been a cycle of lies, protests, and repression.

To help us understand the situation, we're joined by journalist and advocate Sergei Carrotona.

Thank you for joining us.

...