Lukashenka Seriously Offended

The dictator raved in the Lahoisk church.

Lukashenka again criticized the youth. This time for a 'different' attitude to work. But it seems that the reason for irritation is much wider.

Lukashenka again criticized the young generation of Belarusians, contrasting it with people of his age:

— We all praise our young people. Yes, we have good young people. It as it is. There will be no other. But what worries me is that our young people are not as fastened to work as we are.

According to a person who has been ruling the country for three decades, there is a certain problem, if not a threat, in this circumstance: "Therefore, you will face a serious exam in the future."

It is not difficult to understand Lukashenka's resentment against young Belarusians. Firstly, this is a banal conflict of generations born in different centuries. Today's youth live in conditions that a student of the Mahiliou Institute could only read about in a collection of fiction.

Secondly, it is increasingly difficult to "fasten" modern Belarusians to work, as it was in the days of the ruler's youth. And in this case, it is worth looking at this clause more broadly.

It is not so much about the failure of many years of attempts to force young specialists to work out diplomas at the country's degrading enterprises.

We are dealing with nostalgia for the times when everything was subject to the principle "where the Motherland will send". He graduated from school, college or, if he is lucky, the institute — and forward to work achievements, until his retirement.

This is a longing for an era when everything and everyone obeyed the party line. Including young people, as in that famous phrase from the Soviet poster: "The party said: it is necessary! Komsomol replied: Yes!"

Hence, most likely, the "recipe" for solving the problem voiced by Lukashenko in the same place, in the Lahoisk church:

— We need to define a normal government, a normal president, a government that will indicate the way in which our country will develop. We will not avoid it. This is one of the directions, the essence of generational change.

And this is an important message to those who will enter adulthood tomorrow. As in the case of their parents and grandparents, today's young people are not going to ask their opinions about how to live, what they want. The regime is preparing to say to them: "We must!"

The question of how today's young people, from whom they are already trying to steal their future, will answer this remains open.

Artsiom Sinitsyn, Salidarnasc

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