He scares, and he is scared

The youth of the leader is always interesting, and if we are talking about a contemporary who has been governing the European country in dictatorial regime for nearly 20 years, then it is doubly interesting. It is curious how such a character is forged.

Judging by the memories that I had to read, the future dad was still a schoolboy loved to terrify others. True, then he had neither the Chekists nor the police under the command and had to act alone. However, already in those years, Lukashenko learned all the benefits of being on top. He scared the fellow villagers, climbing the roadside spruce. Imagine a lone Mogilev peasant in the evening on a cart, plunged into gloomy thoughts or dozed off, when suddenly the victorious "ku-ku!" Citizens trembled strongly, but they were afraid to contact a tall junior. The peasants from this petty, funny, excusable foolish of a fellow countryman got used to it. After all, everyone has their own cockroaches in their heads. He who drinks and is chasing his wife with an ax, but Sasha sits on Christmas trees and dolls.

So his political style was developed.

He scared the West, threatening to closely rally with Russia. The Kremlin scared, threatening to expose the western borders of Russia. But most of all, according to the old habit, the Old Man was nightmare for compatriots, telling them the terrible stories about Polish spies and Russian imperialists, on whose money the local opposition intended to sow the turmoil and eliminate the blue -time Belarusian statehood. He scared - and many were scared, especially to the opposition, whose leaders disappeared under mysterious circumstances, were beaten in squares, and sat in prisons.

The system functioned properly, it must be admitted today. Since the effectiveness of any totalitarian power is determined only by two factors: the stability of the vertical and the so -called stability. As for the economy, it can be in a catastrophic state, this does not have a significant impact on the situation in the country. Until then until it crashes. So far, the rules of the game in totalitarianism are not violated and the authorities will not be as helpless in the face of criminals as a people under a boot of power.

In this, by the way, the main difference between totalitarian Belarus and authoritarian Russia. We have an unspoken public agreement initerly formulated, more freedom, and the Caucasus at the side: any terrorist attacks can be attributed to unfinished militants. The neighbors spawned the militants, not to mention the Caucasus. That is why the script such as "KGB explodes Belarus" look inaccurate. With all the oddities of the Fatherland, he eats soap with obvious reluctance and is not an enemy.

Therefore, today he himself is very scared. Perhaps for the first time in its entire political life. That is why his movements are so convulsive, bizarre of speech and the news coming from Minsk is so amazing. About the arrest of unknown panickers. About the "brilliant operation" of the special services, who had managed to calculate "terrorists without a day," roughly speaking, without leaving the offices. About some turners-bakers who are unknown why they committed a terrorist attack. About the “fifth column”, which, of course, is to blame for everything, but it is noticeable that Lukashenko will arrange a version associated with the “actions of a mentally unhealthy person”. Well, about the "fierce order and organization - the basis of our survival."

He managed to sit on a Christmas tree for so many years and do without injuries, he understands that it is about survival. About his own survival, since an inexplicable, inconceivable explosion in the subway is the first large -scale terrorist attack in Belarus (and the rest, previously not disclosed, Tokari -bakers also admitted) - can become a prelude to anything. To the attempt on his life, for example.

The most informed person in the country, Lukashenko, just in case, stigmatizes those who are not terrible for him. Who obviously did not blow up the metro and is generally not involved in the nightmare in which Belarus is immersed. Ordering to ignore the “cries and moans of foreign sufferers”, he collapses on Western human rights activists and the Strasbourg court. It is safe and politically competent. But it does not cancel the need to answer the most important question: who organized an explosion at the Oktyabrskaya metro station?

Of course, now he will even fiercely tighten the nuts, breaking the thread. To write off all the hardships that amaze the country, including wild inflation and fights in exchangers. Accustomed to scaring, he does not know anything else, although in his peculiar art he achieved perfection. Only today he turns this skill against himself, for the fears that he so successfully imitated, dealing with imaginary villains, suddenly became real. Someone shouted right over his ear “Ku-ku!”, And Alexander Grigoryevich looks around in horror, trying to understand what kind of cuckoo he was measuring his deadlines.