11 Mar 2008
Belarusian Time Gap Overcome in Cyberspace
An interesting article about Belarus has been published by Plotki, a project from around the bloc as they call themselves. The article tells about the Belarusian propaganda and the Internet as a tool of democracy and the only platform left for free disputes in Belarus. It was written by Volha Dudko, a Belarusian living in Prague. This makes the article more emotional as the young woman has the opportunity to compare and see the difference between the country where she is studying and Belarus, where her family lives.
“For a long time the concept of time has been distorted in Belarus. At the moment you cross the border into the Belarusian State you enter into another dimension. Rules of the past still prevail, as well as a lifestyle inherited from the Soviet Union. The present has been lost in the dust of the past. The country is covered with propaganda, advertising a social and prosperous state “for the people”, with abundant Soviet symbols and Victory day parades in the city of Minsk. This dust of the Soviet past is everywhere and as we breathe it, it gets into our lungs and makes us allergic, as pollen in spring. But when pollen just makes you sneeze and tears up your nose, this dust of the past makes for a worse disease, one that affects people’s souls. People become cripples when their souls are touched with fear.”
We recommend you to read the whole article here.