Sadly, regimes can hold on to power way beyond the point where the whole society is hostile to them. Poland had major protests against the communist regime in 1

Sadly, regimes can hold on to power way beyond the point where the whole society is hostile to them. Poland had major protests against the communist regime in 1956, 1968 and throughout 1980s (plus various inbetween), but really the regime fell when (a) it literally went bankrupt, (b) USSR was not in a position to invade, like it did with Czechoslovakia before. And even then it was touch-and-go. Good luck to the Belarusians though!