Belarus: An Ordinary Dictatorship
Mar 18 2018
•Documentary
It’s the last dictatorship of Europe, caught in a Soviet time-warp, where the secret police is still called the KGB and the president rules by fear. Disappearances, political assassinations, waves of repression and mass arrests are all regular occurances. But while half of Belarus moves closer to Russia, the other half is trying to resist…
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Alexander Lukashenko
Self (archive footage)
Aleś Bialacki
Self
Natalia Pinchuk
Self
Boris Yeltsin
Self (archive footage)
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