Paphitis wrote:All I know is what the press tell me hey?
Just because you are a stupid old fool, and don't do anything but scratch your friggin tiny balls, doesn't mean belarus isn't ruiled by a vicious tyrant. How immature are you.
I friggin dare you to open a blog like The Saker criticizing Lukashenko and then go back to Minsk and see what happens. Or for you to go there and make any negative remarks about Lukashenko who is the only fully blown dictator in Europe.
Thanks for the videos about Belarus, and I totally agree this country is a dictatorship.
However like I said earlier you have to give those countries (and Russia) enough time to become truly democratic.
Freedom of speech and expression are actually limited in Western countries todate. E.g when the Queen came here she was shocked that people were throwing eggs at her Limo. Obviously such a thing would never be permitted in London.
Yet that's what freedom of expression is all about.
You thought that Greece became democratic after 400 years of slavery?? Not at all. Upto the 60s they were actually ruled by the palace who in turn were appointed by the Germans. As soon as they revolted they plunged into dictatorship. And that was 140 years after they presumably got their freedom.
In Cyprus it was somehow different. We were "lucky" enough to have the British educate us a bit on democracy, teach us their own law and order etc for about 80 years.
And after we got independent and we were given the freedom to rule ourselves we screwed up everything in just 7 years, hence the reason we today have de facto partition.