In Poland we call him "king of potatoes", because all other names given to him by Belarusians on our side of the border aren't very suitable for polite conversation.
@@Alhajfnfncudj He wants you to see him that way, the dude strategically acts like a bumbling old man so Putin doesnt get too powerful. The make a colonel in the soviet army was to tell Putin that Soviet Union is gone and Putin isnt his boss for example.
I can't believe that Lukashenko calls HIMSELF 'The Last Dictator' like it's a compliment or something? I genuinely can't think of another dictator that goes "Yeah, I'm a dictator".
0:55 - Chapter 1 - A stuntedtransition 2:45 - Chapter 2 - Europe last dictator 10:05 - Chapter 3 - Life under dictatorship 15:20 - Chapter 4 - The bellarusian protest 17:50 - Chapter 5 - A return to the familiar 18:45 - Chapter 6 - The 2020s, the mask off 21:45 - Chapter 7 - Potential routes ahead
"I'm not corrupt. I'm just a psychopathic dictator. Don't think of me as a Charles Taylor. I'm more of a Stalin-lite sort of guy." -Lukashenko probably
I was privileged to visit Belarus in 2002, and a piece of my heart has remained with the country and its people ever since. Thank you so much for this great analysis of the history and current condition of the country.
For the Chechens and Ingush, it wasnt only a deportation, it was a genocide. The Soviets locked entire villages inside of barns and burned them down. They destroyed some villages, and trucked in people from Dagestan to replace the Chechens in others. Half of all Chechens and Ingush died. The word in the Chechen language for this event, Ardaxar Maxkax, literally means "Expulsion of the Countrymen". Many people were shot on the side of the road.
Funny, because even he calls himself "the last dictator", he is not actually the last and it is clearly dependent on another dictator for his survival that will probably survive longer than Lukashenko (if external forces do not dispose of him).
Thank you for covering Belarus! Few things came to my mind: 1) From three video it looks like the Belarusians only took to the streets in 2020. In fact, there were mass protests in 1995, 1996, 1999, 2006, and 2010. 2) There could have been more discussion on Russia's influence and continued support of Lukashenka. In fact, it was Russia that saved him during the constitutional crisis in 1996 when Lukashenka was being impeached. 3) It's worth mentioning that Lukashenka has been balancing between being a Russian vassal and losing independence (and his own power) altogether 4) Pronounciation😀 starting from 'Belarussians'😀 and so on Thanks again!
I’m friends with a man who fled Belarus in 2020. He had to leave his wife and child behind because they were going to imprison him for assisting and hiding Babaryka before his eventual arrest. He ended up fleeing to Mexico and then seeking asylum in the US. The stories he tells of Minsk and the rest of Belarus are depressing.
I like to make a few statements regarding the protest in Belarus. Lukashenko didn't survive the protest himself. He had help from Putin. Surely, you've seen that one video of Lukashenko's body language... he looked as if he was essentially begging Putin to send his people there and deal with it which Putin im sure gladly did!. Lukashenko would've been LONG gone so Aleksandr did not survive the protest himself, he is only alive and still in power because of Putin.
One correction, not Putin, but Russia. Lukašenka would be impeached in 1996 unless Russia intervened on his side and thretened the Belarusian parliament.
@@Janshevik No, the protestors were local, and they spoke local languages. As the protests have lasted for several months, no foreigner would stay here for so long. The only foreigners involved was a group of Wagner. However, they have been arrested before the elections and could not take part in the main protest action.
It saddens me to know that the situation in our neighboring country is even grimmer than after the protests were extinguished. Many of the people who have left Belarus have settled abroad. Some of them have made a great attempt at learning the local languages and integrating into the new ways of life. Kudos to them, and I hope that in the near future the situation will change in such a way that people will not be forced to leave their home countries.
Lukashenko describes himself as an "Orthodox atheist" and has said that he believes that a president should be a conservative and avoid using modern electronic technology such as a tablet or smartphone. He used to play the bayan, a musical instrument similar to an accordion.
How many political prisoners do they have in Hungary? It is several thousand in Belarus. Overall, 30 000 people went through jail due to their political activities since 2020 in Belarus.
@@Name-t9fbd Im not saying Belarus is not lol im saying Victor Orban is well on his way to ALSO being one...read my friend, read! Some people comment on youtube just simply to start useless fights. Most (if not all) of those 30k in Belarus came AFTER the 2020 crackdown (and mostly due to russian troops help)...however, hes been known as a dictator for nearly 30 years...the number of people in prison for political reasoning doesnt = a dictatorship the two are separate...you are a dictator if you dictate policy outside of your countries government system (which they both do) Also according to this the number of known political prisoners in Hungary is not really a publicly known figure, so you are pulling numbers out of thin air...again for literally no reason because i was not comparing the two or saying one was even close to the other...simply saying one is well on his way there too...(you would now this if you read before commenting but oh well) Nice try though ;)
No. Lukaschenko and KGB run Belarus had no lockdown or mandates unlike far right Canada which gives Ukrainian fascists a standing ovation. See videos from no lockdown Belarus from Anfisa Belarus or Irish Partizan (based in Belarus)
Very sad situation for Belarus, it really is a beautiful country and the people were kind. I was fortunate enough to have an athletics competition there in 2019, right before the protests started. It was crazy to see all of those events go down in the beautiful squares and public spaces I was just in less than a year before.
You forgot about his other dictator in the caucasus... Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan. Committed genocide against the 150,000 Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh with Putin's green light. Hope you cover this in a future video!
@@sk-dr8zu They project 7% of natural gas will be fueled by Baku by 2029 if Russia continues the war in Ukraine. If the war in Ukraine ends, then the EU can finally hold dictator Aliyev accountable in the Hague.
That's second worst thing after death of 4 trillion billion of bazillion Armenians death by Turks 😥 now we talked about Armenians like every fking history video under you can shut up
@@deputykirsanov7314 I feel like your response has quite a bit more of a negative emotional weight to it than my original post did. What part of this am I supposed to be crying about?
@@DanSoloha The Ural Mountains and the Ural River are the definitive boundaries between the Asian and European continents. Therefore, as the Russian Federation currently straddles both plates, Russia is in Europe and Asia.
@@DanSoloha To be fair, Eastern Europe geographically is basically only Russia so people tend to generalize "Europe." Where eastern Europe to some people is actually in the western part. The term now a days refers to the cultural divide of the iron curtain, not geography. Russia is European though. It has Europe's largest city.
@@nicholasgutierrez9940 And fairly enough, as they proved in the last decade, geography is the single quality by which they belong here. That's an Asian horde, and I really didn't mean to offend decent Asian nations.
Idk why someone decided to start playing a door alarm as background music on your videos lately. But you need to get them to stop it. It's enough to make me stop watching the video because it's all I can hear.
Have you ever seen pictures of Lukashenko back when he took power in the 90’s? He looks exactly like a stereotypical con man! Which, honestly, is incredibly fitting.
Huh? The pilots received a transmission from ATC that there was a bomb on board and directives to divert. So they did. How would they or Ryanair have known this was an elaborate trick set up by the government to arrest some guy who happened to be on board?
This video should be on the Into The Shadows channel since Simon made a bio on Enver Hoxha on that channel. Putting biographies on a channel that was only about battles in wars is confusing
You omit a few important facts to put it into perspective: - Even before the Ukraine's war, Belarus' GDP per capita was almost twice as big as that of Ukraine, and actually closer to that of Poland than to Ukraine - Georgia lost 20% of its territory; Moldova lost 12% of its territory; Ukraine lost 25% of its territory and countless population. There is a clear price for pro-Western choice. But the West isn't quite willing to put its skin in the game for them. - Lack of rampant privatization in the 90s helped to avoid the rampant rise of the oligarchs, like in Ukraine or Russia. Sure, the old economy stayed unreformed. But this is why all the money went into the new economy - into IT, which made Minsk into one of the largest IT hubs in Eastern Europe before 2020. - The opposition's Viktar Babaryka is the former Gazprom's top executive. Lukashenko knows perfectly well, that his real game is not against the West (which is mostly rhetorical) but against Russia (which controls much of his KGB, army, and police). - Lukashenko had to bow to Putin with the Ukraine's war. Otherwise, the war would have been against him. Belarusian cities would have burned, and the population would have been slaughtered. Nevertheless, despite initial Putin's pressure, Belarus' army somehow stayed away from the war, somehow Russian missiles stopped flying from Belarus, and Ukrainian missiles do not fly into Belarus (because Ukraine understands that game). - Do you really think Russia is happier to see the country of Belarus than the country of Ukraine? No. And you have to be smart (or shrewd) to survive in those conditions. - Sure, Lukashenko is a criminal and a dictator. But how many people did he kill? Maybe a dozen. How many people did Putin kill? Hundreds of thousands. The difference is incomparable. When the dust settles, do you think anybody will ask how Belarus stayed intact, its population survived, and its cities didn't get destroyed? In the neighbourhood of a dying empire where the West doesn't want to give much protection. * And for god sake - stop saying BELARASHAN - there is no such word and it hurts the ear. The country is called Belarus, the adjective in English is BE-LA-RU-SIAN. Pay attention to single "s". English is your native, after all.
I so wish we would stop calling something that was so obviously not communism, communism. I get that they called themselves that but North Korea calls itself democratic what matters is the policy put forward not the dressing
Yeah they keep doing it to Capitalism too. They get mad when they point out something bad in capitalism only to be told “that’s not true capitalism”. Works both ways.
Raman Protasevich was released in Minsk, and did impromptu Street interviews, after that I've not heard of him again. I think that he's broken now. The art of installing fear in someone is a artform in Belarus...
Gosh that annoying repetive soundtrack, behind Simon's Voice. It sounds like im getting Spammed by messages every 3seconds... PLEASE change that Bi-Ding! Sound 😢 It makes it so hard to focus...
OFF_TOPIC: Does anyone know more about this guy's lighting solution? It is impeccable! PERFECT spotlight just on him. Backround dark, but not too dark. But most impressive off all: No distracting reflections in his glasses. HOW!?
You won’t probably see this, but let me tell you, I’ve seen a lot of videos where you mispronounce russian, belarussian or Ukrainian names and surnames. You can’t use Czech to pronounce those, the sound for “CH” will be like Czech letter “č”.
Belarusian with one is the correct spelling. The Belarusian language uses Czech alphabet, so the pronunciation of Belarusian names would be correct if only he used it systemically.
@@TheWedabest Irrelevant to the discussion. But, "Europe's last dictator" comes from Lukashenko himself, not necessarily facts. Just a sort of catchphrase.
I don’t get how the eu can enforce a ban on Belarus using their airspace for commercial flights. Is France or Germany really gonna shoot a commercial plane full of civilians out of the sky cause it’s flown by a Belarusian company. I find that dubious at best.
If needed, yes. No plane from Belarus, civilian or military, is allowed to overfly EU member airspace. Any plane from Belarus that does enter EU airspace will be met by that nation’s military aircraft and given a choice: either turn around and leave, or land at the nearest airport where the plane and cargo will be impounded and people taken into custody while the authorities decide what to do with them. Failure to heed those directions when there is a military aircraft right next to you is a good way to be declared a national security threat.
I don’t get what how lukashenko has so much support he has not been overthrown. Ukrainians stood up against their Russian puppets. lukashenko seems to have a lot of support and enablers. How else does he stay in power.
Ironically enough, that response by the authorities is par for the course in the US. If not worse. Obviously the end result still falls mildly within constitutional bounds (I guess). Probably shouldn't be the model though
Isn't Putin also a dictator or have they moved continental boundaries several hundred miles west to put Western Russia in Asia ?..Most of Azerbaijan is in Europe too,also a dictatorship on the Belarus model..So get your facts right !
@@0El_Presidente0 The Caucasus mountain range is a ridge that runs south east through its highest peak Mount Baraduzu..Which puts the north east of the country along the Caspian coast including the capital Baku and where most of the population lives in Europe from your standpoint..However both Georgia and Armenia which are south of the mountains draw the border on relgious cultural lines seeing themselves as defending Europe's Christian frontier..Muslim Azerbaijan may want to see themselves as Asian for similar reasons..In Roman times Europa was a small province basically what is today Eurpean Turkey..In the 8th century its capital Byzantium took on the role as blocking Islam on the other side of the Bosphorus Strait so Chrisitian leaders came together and declared their lands Europe including Armenia which extended way into modern day Turkey..Armenia could soon be a member of the EU which hardly makes it an Asian country,especially with Turkey being rejected due to shall we say too much Asian baggage..
I still don't understand why Russia and Belarus haven't been excluded from the international banking/financial institutions... that would level their economies and probably force Putin to stop the highly illegal war in Ukraine 🇺🇦
@@TheWedabest I just checked that channel. You are right Simon is longer hosting that channel. I just find it strange how Simon is putting some biographies on this channel and others on the Into The Shadows channel. This channel was originally about famous battles in wars.
Belarus had better be exceptionally careful. There is a country named Poland that has that wonderful human thing called generational memory. With Poland in Nato, if there were to be a conflict, God help Belarus and Russia, because they are going to be treated as they were.
he might be the only one in power atm, but there are still a whole bunch of other "angry old men" here in europe & the east, that are close to/really want to be, godkings 🥴 quite the #shameforhumanity !
@@mr.z3664 wow, what a weird and off pudding thing to say, considering i was referring to how Simon makes seemingly mundane subject incredibly interesting and in no way was referring to any political affiliation with any university (or its so called "political indoctrination". so i ask that you kindly goose step your ass up out of these comments back to your kremlin, a lick Putins toes.
@@mr.z3664 What a terribly off topic thing to bring up considering i was speaking on the way Simon makes learning about the seemly mundane subjects interesting and engaging. In no way was i making a comment about the political affiliations of any university or their subsequent "indoctrination programs" so do me a favor a goose step ass out of these comments and back to your kremlin to lick Putins toes. Russian Bot. Slava Ukraini!
In Poland we call him "king of potatoes", because all other names given to him by Belarusians on our side of the border aren't very suitable for polite conversation.
And we call all Poles and your president "Psheks"
There's always a Mussolini to a Hitler.
Mussolini was hitlers role model to begin with. It’s only in 1944 when he was rescued by Hitler when he became a puppet
Except this guy is like plankton 😂 trying but failing to be evil
@@Alhajfnfncudj He wants you to see him that way, the dude strategically acts like a bumbling old man so Putin doesnt get too powerful. The make a colonel in the soviet army was to tell Putin that Soviet Union is gone and Putin isnt his boss for example.
He seems like a coward.
you fell for yankee nazi propaganda lol
As a citizen of Belarus and an ethnic Belarusian, I am grateful to you for talking about the situation in my country.
Long Live Belarus⚪🔴⚪
Hope you're using NordVPN 😅
@@ProbablyNotLegit Always, i don't want to be in jail third time😅
ZHIVE BELARUS 🤍❤️🤍
@@secularsekai8910 Žyvie Viečna!⚪🔴⚪
@BlackCatVitushka Are Belarus jails like Russian? Interesting discussion tbh
I can't believe that Lukashenko calls HIMSELF 'The Last Dictator' like it's a compliment or something? I genuinely can't think of another dictator that goes "Yeah, I'm a dictator".
Bukele has branded himself as the 'world's coolest dictator'.
@@ElectriKong-Bukele is one of the best leaders this world has.
@@DEC3TheWokeProject And it will come back to bite the ass of its people for giving too much power to only one person.
@@DEC3TheWokeProjectmaking back room deals with gangs does not equate to being one of the world’s best leaders.
@@miked451Which he didn't. That was the previous government. He simply arrested them.
The dulcet tones of Simon Whistler once again getting me through another work day
Whistling with Simon on the company's dime, nothing better
enjoy your nazi propaganda hahol.
0:55 - Chapter 1 - A stuntedtransition
2:45 - Chapter 2 - Europe last dictator
10:05 - Chapter 3 - Life under dictatorship
15:20 - Chapter 4 - The bellarusian protest
17:50 - Chapter 5 - A return to the familiar
18:45 - Chapter 6 - The 2020s, the mask off
21:45 - Chapter 7 - Potential routes ahead
"I'm not corrupt. I'm just a psychopathic dictator. Don't think of me as a Charles Taylor. I'm more of a Stalin-lite sort of guy." -Lukashenko probably
What's wrong with being Stalin lite?
@@karendarrenmclarenSure, yeah. That makes total sense. /s
@@jimtalbott9535 hm?
@karendarrenmclaren Because he's just Leonid Breznev with extra steps! 🙄
@@PaulRudd1941 no. They very different and in some shape even opposite. While brezhnev still wasn't any kind of bad... not good, but still not bad
I was privileged to visit Belarus in 2002, and a piece of my heart has remained with the country and its people ever since. Thank you so much for this great analysis of the history and current condition of the country.
For the Chechens and Ingush, it wasnt only a deportation, it was a genocide. The Soviets locked entire villages inside of barns and burned them down. They destroyed some villages, and trucked in people from Dagestan to replace the Chechens in others. Half of all Chechens and Ingush died. The word in the Chechen language for this event, Ardaxar Maxkax, literally means "Expulsion of the Countrymen". Many people were shot on the side of the road.
"Come and See"
Замечательно. Надеюсь скоро повторим. Русский народ от вас устал, и от вашей привилегированности, горные обреки.
Funny, because even he calls himself "the last dictator", he is not actually the last and it is clearly dependent on another dictator for his survival that will probably survive longer than Lukashenko (if external forces do not dispose of him).
Putin is an autocrat there's a difference
How is he dependent on another dictator? In case that NATO invades Belarus as is its habit when a country doesn't bid to USA interests?
@@Janshevik Without your master, he has no power.
@@GrievousReborn The difference is largely academic of course.
Thank you for covering Belarus! Few things came to my mind:
1) From three video it looks like the Belarusians only took to the streets in 2020. In fact, there were mass protests in 1995, 1996, 1999, 2006, and 2010.
2) There could have been more discussion on Russia's influence and continued support of Lukashenka. In fact, it was Russia that saved him during the constitutional crisis in 1996 when Lukashenka was being impeached.
3) It's worth mentioning that Lukashenka has been balancing between being a Russian vassal and losing independence (and his own power) altogether
4) Pronounciation😀 starting from 'Belarussians'😀 and so on
Thanks again!
In 2020, media in other countries wanted to divert news of their own protests, so they focused on Belarus.
I’m friends with a man who fled Belarus in 2020. He had to leave his wife and child behind because they were going to imprison him for assisting and hiding Babaryka before his eventual arrest. He ended up fleeing to Mexico and then seeking asylum in the US. The stories he tells of Minsk and the rest of Belarus are depressing.
Funny that Babaryka was prorussian
Europe's Last Dictator ... so far
Europe is full of democratically elected dictators.
is putin not a dictator?
@@thetitanofwallstreet7839 technically not, he just “won” another election. But it’s all a farce.
Well, Russia is for a large part in Europe, so we may say, Lukashenko is Europe's SECOND-LAST dictator?
@@thetitanofwallstreet7839 technically not, he just “won” an election. But it’s all a farce
That open car door with the keys left in the ignition chime is driving me spare.
1:30 This deserves it's own video if it's possible
Warographics.....To Save the Soviets: Russia's Last Communist Coup Attempt
There's a bunch actually. The end of the Russian first democracy, party because of the Clintons. Hilary openly acknowledged her shortsightedness.
Lukashenko opposes the war because unlike Putin he has self preservation, but he played the wrong side and has no choice now. Sucks to suck.
you inhaled too much yankee propaganda and now could not be further from the truth.
What wrong choice? Better than Ukraine, where are like almost million dead and many more displaced. How many dead in Belarus?
I like to make a few statements regarding the protest in Belarus. Lukashenko didn't survive the protest himself. He had help from Putin. Surely, you've seen that one video of Lukashenko's body language... he looked as if he was essentially begging Putin to send his people there and deal with it which Putin im sure gladly did!. Lukashenko would've been LONG gone so Aleksandr did not survive the protest himself, he is only alive and still in power because of Putin.
One correction, not Putin, but Russia. Lukašenka would be impeached in 1996 unless Russia intervened on his side and thretened the Belarusian parliament.
Delusional, Lukashenko didn't even need to use the military to counter the " protests"
Putin is the leader and the face of modern day Russia 😂 @@Name-t9fbd
After all many protesters were from abroad too. Poland and Lithuania still dream of commonwealth period from centuries ago.
@@Janshevik No, the protestors were local, and they spoke local languages. As the protests have lasted for several months, no foreigner would stay here for so long. The only foreigners involved was a group of Wagner. However, they have been arrested before the elections and could not take part in the main protest action.
It saddens me to know that the situation in our neighboring country is even grimmer than after the protests were extinguished. Many of the people who have left Belarus have settled abroad. Some of them have made a great attempt at learning the local languages and integrating into the new ways of life. Kudos to them, and I hope that in the near future the situation will change in such a way that people will not be forced to leave their home countries.
Only things that saddens you is that you don't get a piece of Belarus in your delusional commonwealth dreams
Lukashenko describes himself as an "Orthodox atheist" and has said that he believes that a president should be a conservative and avoid using modern electronic technology such as a tablet or smartphone. He used to play the bayan, a musical instrument similar to an accordion.
Alright! A Belarus video. Thanks for this upload, Simon!
Victor Orban is well on his way and Vucciq or whatever its spelled
I had to search up who you meant and i found him.
Oh you meant the Serbian guy.
@@ReySchultz121 dang i forgot to say Serbia but ya that guy
Victor isn't a dictator. He is a legitimate authoritarian.
How many political prisoners do they have in Hungary? It is several thousand in Belarus. Overall, 30 000 people went through jail due to their political activities since 2020 in Belarus.
@@Name-t9fbd Im not saying Belarus is not lol im saying Victor Orban is well on his way to ALSO being one...read my friend, read! Some people comment on youtube just simply to start useless fights.
Most (if not all) of those 30k in Belarus came AFTER the 2020 crackdown (and mostly due to russian troops help)...however, hes been known as a dictator for nearly 30 years...the number of people in prison for political reasoning doesnt = a dictatorship the two are separate...you are a dictator if you dictate policy outside of your countries government system (which they both do)
Also according to this the number of known political prisoners in Hungary is not really a publicly known figure, so you are pulling numbers out of thin air...again for literally no reason because i was not comparing the two or saying one was even close to the other...simply saying one is well on his way there too...(you would now this if you read before commenting but oh well)
Nice try though ;)
Thought you where talking about Canada for a second thanks for the clarification in the beginning 🇨🇦
Well, he is Castro's son after all, lol.
@@VisibilityFoggy lols
No. Lukaschenko and KGB run Belarus had no lockdown or mandates unlike far right Canada which gives Ukrainian fascists a standing ovation.
See videos from no lockdown Belarus from Anfisa Belarus or Irish Partizan (based in Belarus)
@@rjames3981 How's the weather in Moscow, "James." Shouldn't a good vatnik be on the front line?
Minsk is the capital of Belarus 🇧🇾
Well covered, cheers!
Very sad situation for Belarus, it really is a beautiful country and the people were kind. I was fortunate enough to have an athletics competition there in 2019, right before the protests started. It was crazy to see all of those events go down in the beautiful squares and public spaces I was just in less than a year before.
Something like that is about happen in Venezuela
who left their car door open? that chime is so annoying. 3:20
Are you talking about the background music? It sounds completely fine to me
It is extremely annoying
I heard Makarov at 8:30
Simon playing too much Call of duty
You forgot about his other dictator in the caucasus... Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan. Committed genocide against the 150,000 Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh with Putin's green light. Hope you cover this in a future video!
That is not technically Europe. Also, let's not forget about Vladimir the Unlikely, occupier of the Kremlin and Destroyer of the Realm!
@@lucemiserlohn That's correct, it's it's in the Caucasus (Eurasia).
as long as the oil and gas from Baku keep supplying to Europe, nobody is going talk about iliham aliyev .
@@sk-dr8zu They project 7% of natural gas will be fueled by Baku by 2029 if Russia continues the war in Ukraine. If the war in Ukraine ends, then the EU can finally hold dictator Aliyev accountable in the Hague.
That's second worst thing after death of 4 trillion billion of bazillion Armenians death by Turks 😥 now we talked about Armenians like every fking history video under you can shut up
Love your content brother 😁
Man I love this channel
I went to school with a Belarusian boy in the mid 2000s and he would just use the terms "Belarus" and "Russia" totally interchangeably.
Because they are. Belarus and Ukraine are the extentions of Russia. They form the Holy Rus
@@patrickmunneke8348maybe about 150 years ago mate not anymore
@@Aussie_swagger430 If you say so.
Because we are in the union state, and 80% of the people want that. Cry about it
@@deputykirsanov7314 I feel like your response has quite a bit more of a negative emotional weight to it than my original post did. What part of this am I supposed to be crying about?
Wait I thought Simon dropped a video on Lukashenka, a real good one, I could never find it again.
Any link to Simons other Belarus video will be greatly appreciated, I cannot find it anywhere.
Thanks for the Stream and all the info provided … 💙💛💙
That beeping in the background was annoying as hell
The background music is annoying.
He looks kind of like Putin but with a mustache
and fat
and a foot taller
@@sk-dr8zu and wider. Putin's hand looks like a third of sasha's
It is him he's just putin on a disguise
No u dunces hes clearly stalin in disguise wake up people. Lenin had to flee to Venus tho
Ha, a Russian Stooge claiming the other guy is an American Stooge is just so absurd.
Love these videos but the background music is so distracting I can hardly focus on the content.
Quote Putin: "Luke I'm your father!" 🤣🤣🤣
I love your narrations fact boy. You're my favorite Brit by far.
Sending love across the pond to Prague ❤
0:52 what's Pedro Pascal doing there?
Dr. Phil has really let himself go
I kinda see vibes of like a younger John Cleese (especially in his younger pictures)
Simon what's that background chime. Did someone leave their car door open with the keys in it.
Interesting, I was wondering what happening in Belarus
And you chose a British guy to learn about it, genius.
See Anfisa Belarus for a more realistic view of life in no lockdown party time Belarus.
@@gauravtiwari8313 Indeed lol.
Background music was to present for me. Constantly thinking a reminder clock was going of.
I recall when the Belarusian people revolted a few years and how the police used Gestapo style tactics
Well according to you western hypocrites insurrection is bad and illegal. Riiiiight ?
and the police is still using this tactics. the repressions continue for 4 years.
@@happy_golden_retriever all because some old man says so...
Last time I was this early, it was still the Byelorussian SSR
Lukashenko: I am the last dictator of Europe.
Putin: Am I a joke to you?
Russia isn’t Europe, though
@@DanSoloha The Ural Mountains and the Ural River are the definitive boundaries between the Asian and European continents. Therefore, as the Russian Federation currently straddles both plates, Russia is in Europe and Asia.
@@DanSoloha To be fair, Eastern Europe geographically is basically only Russia so people tend to generalize "Europe." Where eastern Europe to some people is actually in the western part. The term now a days refers to the cultural divide of the iron curtain, not geography. Russia is European though. It has Europe's largest city.
@@nicholasgutierrez9940 And fairly enough, as they proved in the last decade, geography is the single quality by which they belong here. That's an Asian horde, and I really didn't mean to offend decent Asian nations.
Ah, finally something about the hockey-potato-funny moustache man.
Chonkie Putin
I really hope Lukashenko leaves office asap and pays for his crimes.
Idk why someone decided to start playing a door alarm as background music on your videos lately. But you need to get them to stop it. It's enough to make me stop watching the video because it's all I can hear.
2:26 - might want to double-check on the country names
What about that guy in transnystria?
I think he done a video on the man, his son and country
Transnistria isn't really a country. But true
It's the Sheriff corporation or something.
@@calebbean1384 Moldova isn't a real country too tbh
@@Janshevik The Orkistan Federation owned by China isn't a real country.
I don’t bother going anywhere besides this channel for commentary and updates on geopolitics and current events
Echo chamber much
Have you ever seen pictures of Lukashenko back when he took power in the 90’s? He looks exactly like a stereotypical con man! Which, honestly, is incredibly fitting.
I won't fly Ryanair under any circumstances, given their complicity with Lukashenko's dictatorship,
Does that mean you want eat, drink or use anything made by huge corporations that work with dictators and brutal governments!?
Huh? The pilots received a transmission from ATC that there was a bomb on board and directives to divert. So they did. How would they or Ryanair have known this was an elaborate trick set up by the government to arrest some guy who happened to be on board?
Bit of a weird take, they didn't have a choice. The plane was escorted by military jets and forced to land.
That will show them!
Nice vid!
This video should be on the Into The Shadows channel since Simon made a bio on Enver Hoxha on that channel. Putting biographies on a channel that was only about battles in wars is confusing
You omit a few important facts to put it into perspective:
- Even before the Ukraine's war, Belarus' GDP per capita was almost twice as big as that of Ukraine, and actually closer to that of Poland than to Ukraine
- Georgia lost 20% of its territory; Moldova lost 12% of its territory; Ukraine lost 25% of its territory and countless population. There is a clear price for pro-Western choice. But the West isn't quite willing to put its skin in the game for them.
- Lack of rampant privatization in the 90s helped to avoid the rampant rise of the oligarchs, like in Ukraine or Russia. Sure, the old economy stayed unreformed. But this is why all the money went into the new economy - into IT, which made Minsk into one of the largest IT hubs in Eastern Europe before 2020.
- The opposition's Viktar Babaryka is the former Gazprom's top executive. Lukashenko knows perfectly well, that his real game is not against the West (which is mostly rhetorical) but against Russia (which controls much of his KGB, army, and police).
- Lukashenko had to bow to Putin with the Ukraine's war. Otherwise, the war would have been against him. Belarusian cities would have burned, and the population would have been slaughtered. Nevertheless, despite initial Putin's pressure, Belarus' army somehow stayed away from the war, somehow Russian missiles stopped flying from Belarus, and Ukrainian missiles do not fly into Belarus (because Ukraine understands that game).
- Do you really think Russia is happier to see the country of Belarus than the country of Ukraine? No. And you have to be smart (or shrewd) to survive in those conditions.
- Sure, Lukashenko is a criminal and a dictator. But how many people did he kill? Maybe a dozen. How many people did Putin kill? Hundreds of thousands. The difference is incomparable.
When the dust settles, do you think anybody will ask how Belarus stayed intact, its population survived, and its cities didn't get destroyed? In the neighbourhood of a dying empire where the West doesn't want to give much protection.
* And for god sake - stop saying BELARASHAN - there is no such word and it hurts the ear. The country is called Belarus, the adjective in English is BE-LA-RU-SIAN. Pay attention to single "s". English is your native, after all.
I so wish we would stop calling something that was so obviously not communism, communism. I get that they called themselves that but North Korea calls itself democratic what matters is the policy put forward not the dressing
Yeah they keep doing it to Capitalism too. They get mad when they point out something bad in capitalism only to be told “that’s not true capitalism”. Works both ways.
Communism is an ideology. It was the ideology of the USSR. Why would we call it anything else?
Raman Protasevich was released in Minsk, and did impromptu Street interviews, after that I've not heard of him again. I think that he's broken now. The art of installing fear in someone is a artform in Belarus...
Gosh that annoying repetive soundtrack, behind Simon's Voice. It sounds like im getting Spammed by messages every 3seconds... PLEASE change that Bi-Ding! Sound 😢 It makes it so hard to focus...
Calling him the last dictator in Europe is weird, not like Russia isn’t in Europe, or at least Moscow
Muscovy was a vassal state to the Golden Horde, now it's a vassal of China, nothing to do with Europe or Rus
He calls himself the last dictator...
@@mitchelldurward8863 doesn't change my point, people are still referring to him as Europe's last dictator all the time
Belarus implements its own machinery, its own production, agriculture and its own IT. That's enough
IT is dead in Belarus already. almost all the companies are in exile now.
OFF_TOPIC: Does anyone know more about this guy's lighting solution? It is impeccable! PERFECT spotlight just on him. Backround dark, but not too dark. But most impressive off all: No distracting reflections in his glasses. HOW!?
I like when he gave Putin a tractor for his birthday.
That dining ask over 4 min mark is kinda annoying
I genuinely feel bad for the migrants. They deserve to live happy and peaceful lives.
time point 2:26, please change the text Latvia to Lithuania, and move Latvia between Lithuania and Estonia.
Currently USAs government would stop out democracy. If this doesn’t give you an idea of the state of things here.
Realize we give way to much power to government leaders. Take it back
You won’t probably see this, but let me tell you, I’ve seen a lot of videos where you mispronounce russian, belarussian or Ukrainian names and surnames. You can’t use Czech to pronounce those, the sound for “CH” will be like Czech letter “č”.
Belarusian with one is the correct spelling. The Belarusian language uses Czech alphabet, so the pronunciation of Belarusian names would be correct if only he used it systemically.
The BGM really turned me off from this video. It could've been your best one ever, but i will never know...
So he's a dictator, proud of it, and still kind of beloved by his people.
Is he Victor Von Doom??
He's not the last dictator in Europe. Have you heard of Aleksandar Vucic, president of Serbia? Google him, do some research on him and you'll know
Didn't he just win an election ?.
Serbia is small and insignificant country. Especially compared to belarus!
@@TheWedabest Irrelevant to the discussion. But, "Europe's last dictator" comes from Lukashenko himself, not necessarily facts. Just a sort of catchphrase.
@@ALLMINDmercenarysupportsystem so we are not supposed to take him serious? Just a politician talking out of ass.
@@TheWedabest It's not unusual for politicians to do that, so generally, yes.
I don’t get how the eu can enforce a ban on Belarus using their airspace for commercial flights. Is France or Germany really gonna shoot a commercial plane full of civilians out of the sky cause it’s flown by a Belarusian company. I find that dubious at best.
If needed, yes.
No plane from Belarus, civilian or military, is allowed to overfly EU member airspace.
Any plane from Belarus that does enter EU airspace will be met by that nation’s military aircraft and given a choice: either turn around and leave, or land at the nearest airport where the plane and cargo will be impounded and people taken into custody while the authorities decide what to do with them.
Failure to heed those directions when there is a military aircraft right next to you is a good way to be declared a national security threat.
It's an overused joke I know but: "last dictator for now."
Trump salivating in the wings
I don’t get what how lukashenko has so much support he has not been overthrown. Ukrainians stood up against their Russian puppets. lukashenko seems to have a lot of support and enablers. How else does he stay in power.
You should realy do a video about The battle of Hhasam. I am going to keep reminding you through videos, just in case, you know. VIDEO 1
You forgot to mention how Russia literally announced their plans to annex Belarus by 2030
Ah, the reason Wargaming took their $$ and moved to Cyprus.
I can’t title the video Europes last dictator when Putin himself is essentially a dictator
"At least I gots the NATO AND McDonalds, tractor boi!" - Viktor Orban
Some people consider some of the other Eastern Europe leaders to be dictators in one form or other.
Is this really called “Europes last dictator”?!? 🤣😭😂
What's wrong
Ironically enough, that response by the authorities is par for the course in the US. If not worse. Obviously the end result still falls mildly within constitutional bounds (I guess). Probably shouldn't be the model though
Isn't Putin also a dictator or have they moved continental boundaries several hundred miles west to put Western Russia in Asia ?..Most of Azerbaijan is in Europe too,also a dictatorship on the Belarus model..So get your facts right !
Putin isn't a self-declared dictator
It's Lukashenko's claim, not based on any facts.
Azerbaijan is in Asia, east European borders are Urals and Kaukasus mountains
@@0El_Presidente0 The Caucasus mountain range is a ridge that runs south east through its highest peak Mount Baraduzu..Which puts the north east of the country along the Caspian coast including the capital Baku and where most of the population lives in Europe from your standpoint..However both Georgia and Armenia which are south of the mountains draw the border on relgious cultural lines seeing themselves as defending Europe's Christian frontier..Muslim Azerbaijan may want to see themselves as Asian for similar reasons..In Roman times Europa was a small province basically what is today Eurpean Turkey..In the 8th century its capital Byzantium took on the role as blocking Islam on the other side of the Bosphorus Strait so Chrisitian leaders came together and declared their lands Europe including Armenia which extended way into modern day Turkey..Armenia could soon be a member of the EU which hardly makes it an Asian country,especially with Turkey being rejected due to shall we say too much Asian baggage..
Aka Steven Seagal’s second best mate
That music was a little bit distracting though... Informative otherwise
I still don't understand why Russia and Belarus haven't been excluded from the international banking/financial institutions... that would level their economies and probably force Putin to stop the highly illegal war in Ukraine 🇺🇦
And who will come after him when his days are over Im curious.
To say that anything surrounding Yeltsin was democratic is not accurate at all.
That dingong in the background makes it unwatchable
Are we forgetting about the dude in turkey?
You just know that, at some point, this guy has an appointment with a highrise window...
This is a good video but on the wrong channel. This should be on the Biographics Channel
To my knowledge, Simon isn't on biographics channel anymore.
@@TheWedabest I just checked that channel. You are right Simon is longer hosting that channel. I just find it strange how Simon is putting some biographies on this channel and others on the Into The Shadows channel. This channel was originally about famous battles in wars.
@100domathon my guess, Simon is too buys with other channels. It's not the first time that he has left a channel for bigger and better things.
Belarus had better be exceptionally careful. There is a country named Poland that has that wonderful human thing called generational memory.
With Poland in Nato, if there were to be a conflict, God help Belarus and Russia, because they are going to be treated as they were.
he might be the only one in power atm, but there are still a whole bunch of other "angry old men" here in europe & the east, that are close to/really want to be, godkings 🥴 quite the #shameforhumanity !
I would like to go to university where Simon teaches every subject.
You can simply go to university. It's not like left wing opinions and indoctrination are hard to find.
@@mr.z3664 wow, what a weird and off pudding thing to say, considering i was referring to how Simon makes seemingly mundane subject incredibly interesting and in no way was referring to any political affiliation with any university (or its so called "political indoctrination". so i ask that you kindly goose step your ass up out of these comments back to your kremlin, a lick Putins toes.
@@mr.z3664 What a terribly off topic thing to bring up considering i was speaking on the way Simon makes learning about the seemly mundane subjects interesting and engaging. In no way was i making a comment about the political affiliations of any university or their subsequent "indoctrination programs" so do me a favor a goose step ass out of these comments and back to your kremlin to lick Putins toes. Russian Bot. Slava Ukraini!
@@mr.z3664 How many rubles were you paid for this comment Dima from Texan Oblast