The plan to overthrow Europe’s last dictator
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The Times
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🗓️ 28 June 2023
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Belarus’ dictatorial president Alexander Lukasheko is getting ever closer to the Kremlin - this week he even brokered a truce between the Wagner group and president Putin to prevent a march on Moscow. But most Belarusians don’t want to be an arm of Russia and - outside of this small country’s borders - a group of exiled pro-democracy protesters are taking up arms and training themselves to fight back. So can they overthrow Europe's last dictator? And if they do reclaim their country, could it be pivotal to the war in Ukraine?
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| 0:39.8 | In Belarus, a storm is brewing. |
| 0:44.0 | All because of one man, the leader of almost three decades. |
| 0:48.2 | Sandwich between the European Union, Ukraine and Russia, Belarus is known as Europe's last |
| 0:54.2 | dictatorship. |
| 0:55.2 | And not everyone is thrilled. |
| 0:56.8 | How old are you? |
| 0:57.8 | I am 22. |
| 0:58.8 | So your whole life lived under one residence. |
| 1:01.8 | How does that feel for you? |
| 1:02.8 | Well, it feels like shit. |
| 1:06.8 | President, dictator, Alexander Lukashenko, is increasingly in the news these days and he's |
| 1:12.2 | been getting closer and closer to the Kremlin. |
| 1:15.5 | Russia raising the nuclear stakes and moving tactical nuclear warheads to its neighbor |
| 1:20.5 | Naly Belarus. |
| 1:22.8 | That's according to the country's president, Alexander Lukashenko. |
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