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I suspect most embassy staff are -- like the ones from Western nations -- generally pretty liberal, and probably secretly fairly supportive of this.
by peteretep 5y ago
I suspect most embassy staff are -- like the ones from Western nations -- generally pretty liberal, and probably secretly fairly supportive of this.
- js8 5y agoUm, probably not. I just heard an interview with a journalist, Jolyon Naegele, a Western correspondent in Czechoslovakia in the 80s (who worked for Radio Free Europe). He talked about how Czechoslovak secret services bothered him (often in a very crude, stupid ways) and also how they, in some sense, were afraid of him, since they assumed that he is a foreign agent. The assumption came from the fact that all the Czechoslovak foreign correspondents in the West actually _were_ agents of secret services. My point is, you cannot generalize the systemic features of Western liberal democracies to authoritarian countries. So I would be surprised if this is not true for diplomats as well. Most of them, if not all, are probably operatives of Belarusian secret services, and they probably have mostly conservative-authoritarian values.
- V-2 5y agoEven if they aren't, they've been vetted very carefully by the secret service. Embassies are among the last places where liberal-leaning individuals would be allowed by the regime to get.
- rad_gruchalski 5y agoI don’t think one gets delegated to an embassy for not being totally supportive of the delegating system.
- arkitaip 5y agoTypically embassy staff are well vetted for being loyal to their governments. Also, some embassy staff are straight up legal spies, tasked with carrying out clandestine work for their governments. These are not people who you would recruit if you weren't absolutely sure of their allegiances and beliefs.