Why History Matters in Belarus

... IT-based information warfare, playing on the aspirations and naïveté of the educated urban class. They seek to encourage a colour revolution in the direction of liberal privatisation under the rule of a Westernising elite. As in Ukraine in 2013–2014, Western media portray this as a prospective bright new dawn for the people of Belarus. The reality would be darker. Belarus is at risk, because in the Lukashenko political twilight, there is confusion and fear. People have lost their ideological moorings, and there is no coherent national vision as was recovered in Russia under ...