Comrade Future
Man from Zeerust
- Location
- USSR
- Pronouns
- He/His/Him
A nuance - but Lukashenko's Union State would most likely not be much different from Putin's Russia, and perhaps would be worse. Since his state is in closer contact with the oligarchy (not even counting Lukashenko's own hidden enterprises), and much more strongly attacks the labor rights of workers.Or at least till Lukashenko's achieved a tail wags dog/moopsie moment of taking over Russia via the Union state or some shit that is.
The contract system is complete trash. They hire you for a probationary period without guarantees, then, if you suit the employer, they ask you to sign a contract for 1-3 years. If you don't want to sign a contract, they start intimidating you, forcing you. Really, feel like a serf. I worked at MAZ, refused to sign a contract, the management threatened to fire me under the article, and women came from the offices, said, "Hey, quickly go to the 3rd floor, sign the contract." I have never seen such an attitude towards people anywhere, to be honest. I wrote a letter of resignation, a month later I collected signatures on the bypass sheet, but it didn't work out. The site manager said that he would not sign anything, he told me to go to work, otherwise I would have a bad entry in my work record. I barely quit, reached the director of the plant, fortunately, they didn't give a damn about the work record, people with loans and families are in complete slavery. There was a practice of fines, according to the plan, everyone had to take at least something from their salary every month, it didn't matter that the person worked impeccably, they didn't give him a bonus, they fined him. Work always started 40-60 minutes before the start of the conveyor, they worked an extra hour for free, but once a month they told you that you were late for work today and would be fined.) An hour before work started, you were already working hard, and they told you that you were late).
In fact, up until 2020, Belarus rather deftly maneuvered, and the transformation into a satellite of Moscow is the result of the events of 2020. For example, after the Ukrainian democratic coup of 2014, for example, there was a warming between Minsk and Kiev, communication at the closest level and even statements by top officials about the need to protect the territorial integrity of Ukraine at any cost. And the period 2014-2020 was actually a period of relative Liberalism and strong rapprochement with the European Union. And the only major political repression was the "Regnum Case", which was carried out against pro-Russian media inside Belarus (Moscow did not react in any way). And when the protests began, there was an opinion that they were provoked by Moscow and pro-Russian candidates, and the EU was not even particularly eager to break off relations. That is, of course, it is necessary to maintain the façade of liberalism, but everyone is accustomed to such a scenario in Belarus - first elections, then protests with minimal repression, then sanctions, then another Thaw, and a gradual resumption of dialogue with "Europe". And in addition to the excessive dispersal of protests, the circumstances of Protosevich's arrest and the migration crisis played a role. That is, in the fall of 2021, Syrian refugees who settled in Minsk began to storm the Polish border, and this served as a pretext for the breakdown of relations between Warsaw and Minsk, and as a result, a full-fledged economic blockade, and as a result, Belarus has no economic partners except the Russian Federation.In the long term yes, as Belarus wouldn't be a Russian client state