Zybitskaya Wants To Come Back

Don't believe your eyes.

I could hardly believe my eyes when I saw a post by Lukashenka propagandist Inha Khrushchova that strayed to my page. It turns out that she has settled down somewhere in Germany and has even become an activist among the protest Belarusian diaspora. Recently she has organized a music event with the creative people who left Belarus and is also planning to give Christmas concerts with the Belarusian musicians.

Most of all I was surprised (to put it mildly) by the number of seemingly decent and sort of anti-regime minded people, mentioned there as well as those who commented under the post in an adorable and joyful manner: musicians, journalists (sort of independent) and others.

From my subjective point of view, such odious personalities should be banned from "Europe" altogether. After all, she was creating this regime, extolling "the collective farm" as a model of a better life than in "dirty Europe".

Khrushchova was quite multi-vectored in her propaganda: she used to glorify the Lukashenka track and his "elections"; she was a member of the master's pool and even headed the department of political commentators at the Television News Agency, i.e. the main propaganda mouthpiece of the dictator.

And she was working as a propagandist and as the head of propagandists at the very time when Lukashenka was destroying the Constitution and rigging the elections, and the most important thing was that she was feeling perfectly well and was just moving up the regime's ladder after Lukashenka's opponents had been killed.

I remember her as a very cynical person who was faithfully serving her master and who was taking particular pleasure in smearing the opposition and citizens who were simply disloyal to Lukashenka, such as those who are now listed as her "friends".

What is frightening in this case is the tendency to pardon the lackeys of the regime who deserve to be tried in court, for example for having taken part in electoral fraud.

It would seem, hell with Khrushchova. Well, she has turned her coat, but not only she has done it. And yet, first she took a fling in Babaryka's press-service, and it was considered normal there, and now in Germany, and she has easily joined the ranks of those whom she used to abuse. And the fact that she is accepted and supported by the protesters is the most alarming thing.

For a long time, the regulars of the agro-glamorous establishments of Minsk, of the very same Zybitskaya, for example, thought that it was quite possible to live under Lukashenka. What is the big deal? A few people were jailed, it is nothing. They were not from our street. And only a dozen people were killed, it is not North Korea.

In 2020, something happened that was supposed to happen: the people rose up and absorbed Zybitskaya. And they became united. And it was great.

And now, signs of nostalgia for agroglamour, for the pockets of Europeanism that existed under dictatorships, for "liberalization" have begun to reappear. One can well understand it. The unsettled conditions in exile, the longing for a familiar life, make you think willy-nilly that things might somehow settle down, that they might even change.

And that is scary.

For they will not.

Things will get worse and worse.

After each blow of the regime at the protests, at people, whole families, children, and not a figurative blow, but quite a physical and crippling one, the dancing with "liberalization" would start, giving Lukashenka the necessary respite. New protests broke out, which rested Lukashenka suppressed with even greater cruelty, and this happened more than once, until he finally reached the year 20 and crossed all red lines, and then he dragged Belarus into a war with Ukraine.

After each "liberalization", which began with the assumption by a part of the society that it was possible, there were immeasurably more victims than after the previous one.

We know how to forgive, but acquitting criminals is not forgiveness, but complicity.

We will forgive after the war and after Lukashenka.

And right now, treating the builders of the regime as fighters against it is not even absurd; it is an attempt to destroy the spirit of protest and to help the chasteners to rule.

They are doomed and must know that the history of their crimes will follow them, even if they manage to take refuge abroad.

The way of redemption is known to them too, and it is in Belarus, and it consists in helping to get rid of this regime.

And then they will be forgiven.

Andrei Sannikov, Facebook