Lukashenko Is In For A Good Old-fashioned Rake Blow
- 8.07.2025, 11:46
Belarusians see the increasing helplessness of the authorities.
Why do the authorities need a "single day of cleaning?"
The authorities want to introduce a single day of cleaning in Belarus in order to "accustom" Belarusians to order. The new initiative of the authorities will cover not only state institutions, but also the private sector.
"There are rules, where it is clearly spelled out what and who should do what. This will also affect the private sector. It will include grass cutting and its frequency. In such a regime, even chaos lovers seem to get used to order," propagandists say.
Yes, these are the same propagandists who are so fond of telling about the horrors of life under the Poles in Western Belarus, and who now propose to fine for uncut grass. Everything is just as it was in "pan-Polish" Poland.
No matter how hard the officials try, inventing beautiful metaphors about clean Thursdays, they will get the same old blow with a rake, forgotten in the grass after the next subbotnik.
These subbotniks returned to our life with the arrival of Lukashenko, thirty years ago. And cleanliness has not become any more, if you have to introduce "clean Thursdays" and fines, "to teach cleanliness and order".
How many copies were broken in the fight against slackers, in an attempt to "teach them to work", but in the end those who did not want to work, successfully do not want to work until now.
But at the same time the state machine rolled over thousands of those who wanted and worked, but because of Lukashenko's specific economic talents found themselves unemployed.
Something similar awaits the new initiative. With the same consequences - close to zero effect and embitterment of people, which will have to be controlled somehow.
The question here is also what is really primary: the desire to restore order or the desire to force people per se. It doesn't matter what - the main thing is that it should be done in formation, on command, in a single impulse.
But people, seeing the increasing helplessness of the state in trivial situations, have not started to organize themselves again.
Artyom Sinitsyn, "Salidarnasts".