Why History Matters in Belarus
... oligarchs to move into and exploit. The worst-case scenario would be a Polish-dependent, weak state dominated by an opportunistic, Western-oriented, new capitalist oligarchic class that would privatise state assets, close many factories and create mass unemployment ... ... Putin began to turn it around in 2000. Such people continue to bleed and destroy Ukraine‘s potential. Is there a future for Belarus as an independent nation, or must it now choose between being absorbed by the Poland—Lithuania—NATO constellation of power, or by metropolitan Russia, which is the real cultural homeland for most of its people? These are ...