Sergey Bulba: “Ní thosaíonn friotaíocht na ndaoine sa Bhealarúis ach”

Last month's protests in Belarus resulted in falsification of the election result. Lukashenko announced his own victory and hundreds of thousands of Belarusians went to protest actions to say about their disagreement with elections outcome. As a result of protests and mass strikes thousands of citizens ended up in jails of Lukashenko’s regime. Thousands of people suffered from systemic humiliations by the repressive apparatus. Dozens of people are missing.

We asked one of resistance figures to tell us about situations in Belarus.

Sergey Bulba was one of those who warned Belarusians in 1994 about perspectives of Lukashenko’s political power increase. Now Sergey is in a forced political emigration. Belarusian dictator’s regime ordered to own intelligent services to start hunt on Sergey years ago...

- Sergey, You are one of the few people who pointed out the possibility of establishing a dictatorship, before Alexander Lukashenko came to power...

- It was not difficult to foresee that Lukashenko would turn into a dictator. After all, Alexander Lukashenko, was a political instructor in prison. Raised by a real commissar, Lukashenko knew how to cynically and deceitfully manipulate the opinion of ordinary people, not to be afraid to shed blood. But after the collapse of the USSR, the Belarusian elites and society were not ready to build an Independent Belarusian State. Having changed the flag, and having made the first steps in cultural sensibilities the new government was not ready to offer the Belarusians an integral concept of the New State development. Then economic and political crisis began and this factor helped Lukashenko to become a leader with the support of the KGB (primarily the Russian part of the KGB, which relied on Lukashenko as a person who would restore the USSR.)

- Sergey, then in the 90s, you massively took people to protest actions. Why wasn’t it possible to remove the dictator Lukashenko from power?

- At that time, many Belarusian political parties, formed from the remnants of the Soviet Komsomol, sincerely believed that it was enough to bring a large crowd to the streets and Lukashenko would run away himself. The stake was not placed on systemic resistance and the formation of the New State model. Small political parties and social movements were pitted against each other by the KGB, and paid more attention to internal competition than to combat the emerging system of Lukashenko's dictatorship. Those who behaved differently - were either exterminated, or, as in my case, were taken to the forest - beaten to such an extent that I survived clinical death from blood loss, and left to die there. But I survived.

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- Has the situation in Belarus changed after your forced departure for political emigration?

- We will never stop working until the majority of Belarusian people will understand that it is impossible to live in an anachronistic social model of society... When the whole world is on its way of developing. After the spread of access to the Internet, it became much easier for all of us who worked to eliminate the totalitarian system in Belarus to convey our opinions to conscious citizens... If you pay attention, exactly youth who know how to use modern information technologies represent the basis of the new protest movement. It is the "new generation" that rebelled against the prospect of living the rest of their lives in the old "Lukashenko's concentration camp" ...

- Did Belarusian youth support new political leaders?

- I would not say so ... It would be more correct to say that the Belarusian people took advantage of those who wanted to become: “the new political leaders”. The desire for Freedom and life in a normal democratic, European society was awakened after Lukashenko tried to make it appear that elections were democratic. The Belarusian people voted: not "for Tikhanovskaya", but voted "against Lukashenko." Against the system of deception that inevitably leads the country into an economic and political abyss ...

- In your opinion, what is the role of Moscow in the processes now taking place in Belarus?

- Undoubtedly, the Kremlin is interested in a more manageable leader in Belarus. After all, the "Belarusian dictator" is unambiguously deceiving the Russian rulers in their striving for further common integration. Moscow is no longer interested in Lukashenko, and is striving to create a number of political projects that will guarantee full control of Belarus by Russia ...

- Don't the people of Belarus see that further flirting with the pro-Moscow forces will lead Belarus to the fate of Syria?

- The informational, economic, political influence of various groups from Moscow is very strong in Belarus. But more than 75% of Belarusians see the future of their country in development apart from the system of Russian totalitarianism. Russia has nothing to offer Belarus except: corruption, crimes, violence and oligarchy ...

Our people: able to provide quite tough resistance to attacks of Independence. If Russia continues to implement the “Syrian scenario” in Belarus, then the Belarusian partisans will be able to repeat the exploits of the “Grand Duchy of Lithuania” ... (laughs) ...

- How is Belarus able to resist Moscow's aggression without having enough strength?

- The strength of the People is not in arming, but in the determination to defend their own Will! The experience of Ukraine shows that one can effectively resist without even having sufficient resources ...

In the army and law enforcement agencies of Belarus enough smart and decent officers who saw how Russia acted with the officers who betrayed "independent Ukraine". Those officers who will betray Belarus in the interests of Russia will face the fate of all traitors: Moscow has always brought down those who served it!

The history of Crimea, Donbass, and now Armenia also shows that it is impossible to cooperate with Moscow. The Belarusian people have enough strength and understanding to provide a worthy rebuff to the Russian aggression!

- Sergei, is it true that Russia has already sent aid to Belarus to protect Lukashenko's regime?

- If you look closely at the video shooting of protests in Belarus, you can pay attention to the “people in black”. Some of them are dressed in black uniforms without identification marks, these are the "assistants" brought from Russia to Belarus. Exactly these “people in black” are making the most harsh harassment of the Belarusian civil protest …

In fact: Russian armed hybrid aggression against Belarus has already begun! Having received tacit approval from Lukashenko, Moscow introduced several thousands, as they like to say: "they are not there." Russian special forces, dressed in "black uniforms", beat civilians, abused and detained political Protestants, rape women and kidnap resistance leaders ...

The world community does not want to see - it is obvious that the harassment of people in Belarus is not even political repression of Lukashenko, but a typical hybrid aggression of Russia !!!

- Do you think the Belarusians will surrender to open violence and stop resisting ???

- I believe that the real Belarusian Resistance is just beginning! “Women with flowers” will be replaced by men. Officers, for whom the word "Honour" is real, will join. The youth of Belarus is capable of Actions ...

A truly free people are born only in an irreconcilable struggle!

- How do you see Belarus: “after Lukashenko”?

- The task of the political movement in Belarus today is the coordinated development of a new model of the state, a new model of the economy, training of future civil servants-managers who will be capable of carrying out economic and political reforms in a short time. Lukashenko - representative of the Soviet information space - and, we, - are bringing new, sometimes revolutionary approaches to both the economy and the social sphere - a new electoral system, a new territorial-administrative division. Etc

The life experience of thousands of Belarusians, who for decades did not stop resisting the dictatorship of Lukashenko, is capable to become a “core for the New Power”, which will prevent the establishment of a puppet anti-democratic pro-Moscow government in Belarus.

Sergey Bulba, Belarusian public figure, active participant in a number of democratic and patriotic organizations.

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