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Republic of Belarus
Рэспубліка Беларусь
Flag of Republic of Belarus
Flag
Coat of arms of Republic of Belarus
Coat of arms
Location of Republic of Belarus
Capital
and largest city
Minsk
Official languagesBelarusian and Russian
Dominant mode of productionCapitalism with socialist characteristics
Leaders
• President
Aleksandr Lukashenko
• Prime Minister
Roman Golovchenko
Area
• Total
207,600 km²
Population
• 2021 estimate
9,349,600
CurrencyBelarusian rouble (BYN)


Belarus, officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe. In the aftermath of the Russian Revolution in 1917, different states arose competing for legitimacy, ultimately ending in the rise of the Byelorussian SSR, which became a founding constituent republic of the Soviet Union in 1922.

After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Belarus declared independence and sought to maintain its state-owned economy under president Alexander Lukashenko. Belarus is relentlessly harassed by the imperialist West for refusal to privatize their state assets and embrace the neoliberal world order.[1]

History

Early history

Lithuania controlled what is now Belarus from the 13th to 18th centuries, and it was part of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth after 1569. In 1795, Tsarist Russia conquered Belarus during the partition of Poland but Polish landlords and merchants continued to dominate the area.[2]

Soviet Union

Soviet Russia ceded the western part of Belarus to Poland in a 1921 peace treaty ending the Polish–Soviet War. The Red Army reunified Belarus in 1939.[2]

Capitalist era

In 1991, Soviet Union held a referendum on its preservation and 83% of Belarus's population voted to remain in the USSR.[3]

Stanislav Shushkevich, chairman of the Supreme Soviet of Belarus, signed the Belavezha Accords in December 1991 along with Leonid Kravchuk from Ukraine and Boris Yeltsin from Russia. This led to the illegal dissolution of the Soviet Union.[4]

2020 color revolution attempt

Imperialist Western countries criticized the election, while the socialist and anti-imperialist world congratulated the elected president
Green: Congratulatory remarks to Lukashenko Red: Expressions of concern Blue: Belarus

Following the 2020 presidential election where president Lukashenko was re-elected, Western Imperialist observers and their lapdogs criticized the results of the election, while promoting the anti-Lukashenko protestors in what appeared to be a US NGO-supported colour revolution.[5][6][7] The protestors were armed with Molotov cocktails.[8]

Arrest of terrorist Roman Protasevich

In 2021 the neo-Nazi terrorist Roman Protasevich boarded a flight from Greece to Lithuania. While the plane crossed over Belarusian airspace, it was ordered to land by state authorities.[9] Protasevich was a member of the neo-Nazi militant organisations Young Front, Pahonia Detachment, and fought alongside the neo-Nazi militant organisation Azov Battalion.[10]

The incident triggered a wave of denunciations by Western governments and aggressive sanctions on Belarus, since the US uses these neo-Nazi groups to advance their imperialist aims.[9][11]

Politics

The liberal Belarusian opposition is led by the Belarusian Popular Front and the United Civil Party.[8]

References