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They sold oil and gas with discounts, pushed for economic union, gave preferences. Belarusian government did not do anything to help private businesses, attract

They sold oil and gas with discounts, pushed for economic union, gave preferences. Belarusian government did not do anything to help private businesses, attract investors, go to new markets and industries. To keep their power, they sold country. About “taking responsibility” - people actually take responsibility for their future, family, children. That’s why they migrate. One can only take responsibility over what they can really change. Not everyone is born a hero to fight the system, very few heroes are successful, and we have only one life. It is safe to call for resistance from a cozy chair, but in fact, it is no romantic endeavor: people got tortured, imprisoned, disappear. Lives of common people can be sacrificed in revolutions for the ultimate benefit of new rulers.

gdy 7y ago
So now discounts and preferences are a bad thing suddenly? "Belarusian government did not do anything" How is that Russia's fault? "To keep their power, they sold country" What exactly did Russia get? Belarus is still a sovereign country. So you are saying that you would've stayed in Belarus if not for Russia?
- playing_colours 7y ago
  Too many questions, my friend, shallow questions. And it seems like not for a good discussion, but for pushing your personal opinion, manipulations, or some agenda. Please, do some research - on how a large country can make a small neighbour dependent on money injections, how they can ask to pay for credits with key state factories, keep hordes of agents and influencers in their governments, military, among politicians, on the history of Russian relations (btw, yesterday Finns remembered Winter War https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_War https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_War). “So you are saying that you would’ve stayed in Belarus if not for Russia” I never said that, bad try.
  - gdy 7y ago
    Or maybe it was too many unsubstantiated statements on your part? The questions don't look shallow to me, they are specific, and your response is hand-waving and 'please do some research'. And here I thought you did that research yourself before blaming Russia.

gdy 7y ago

So now discounts and preferences are a bad thing suddenly? "Belarusian government did not do anything" How is that Russia's fault? "To keep their power, they sold country" What exactly did Russia get? Belarus is still a sovereign country. So you are saying that you would've stayed in Belarus if not for Russia?

playing_colours 7y ago
Too many questions, my friend, shallow questions. And it seems like not for a good discussion, but for pushing your personal opinion, manipulations, or some agenda. Please, do some research - on how a large country can make a small neighbour dependent on money injections, how they can ask to pay for credits with key state factories, keep hordes of agents and influencers in their governments, military, among politicians, on the history of Russian relations (btw, yesterday Finns remembered Winter War https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_War https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_War). “So you are saying that you would’ve stayed in Belarus if not for Russia” I never said that, bad try.
- gdy 7y ago
  Or maybe it was too many unsubstantiated statements on your part? The questions don't look shallow to me, they are specific, and your response is hand-waving and 'please do some research'. And here I thought you did that research yourself before blaming Russia.