https://freedomhouse.org/country/scores
In Freedom House liegt Belarus in Bezug auf die Freiheit direkt über den von Taliban kontrollierten Afghanistan.
Scheint mir ein bisschen ausgefallen zu sein … aber andererseits weiß ich ehrlich gesagt nicht so viel darüber, wie die Dinge tatsächlich im Weißrussland sind – daher frage ich 🙂
Auch wenn jemand einige Details darüber angeben könnte, wie Repression im Rahmen des Regimes Lukashenko gewöhnliche Leute beeinflusst, wäre es sehr interessant.
Just how Repressive is life in Belarus?
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Von BjarkeBjoerna
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I’d say it doesn’t bother regular folk much. They just got used to avoid „risky“ political activities. Govs seem to be kinda trying to avoid confrontation with ones they considered to be a regular public. It’s far from being a healthy situation, but I’d say it’s not as bad as these ratings suggest.
If you are out of politics and don’t have anything to voice, have no investment abroad, travel only to Russia, speak Russian as main language, have no relatives that live abroad, have no history of working abroad and have no plans to try doing the things I listed your experience of life in Belarus won’t be that different from living say in Poland or Lithuania.
The moment you have one or multiple things from what I listed you will encounter „Speed bumps“ on each step of life.
Being too vocal or having family members who were politically vocal or had participated in the 2020 protests can make leaving Belarus very hard or at least very stressful.
Any foreign education is seen as a risk factor. So if you are a Belarus citizen and studied abroad and returned you may find increased interest in you from the state.
Other than that. If you are just „A small person“ with no plans for any of the above you would probably find Belarus to be a reliable place to live.
I guess if you follow the fundamentalist religious rules in Afghanistan the authorities are likely to just leave you alone. So Belarus‘ place in the rating seams plausible.
Romania
Free
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100
Political Rights 34 40
Civil Liberties 48 60
🤣🤣🤣🤣Lmao
Put the main opposition candidate in prison and declare the elections invalid, that is democracy and freedom 82/100🥰🥰🥰
I personally wouldn’t trust any of those „independent“ ratings, I don’t have any friends/acquaintances who got any repressions in Belarus. Maybe there are some, but generally (if you are not living in the delusional world where Lukashenko isn’t a president, where laws made by Lukashenko are illegitimate, where you don’t feel the need to follow those laws etc.) you are pretty much safe from any repressions.
Freedom House gets essentially all of its funding from the U.S Government and U.S. State Department. While it is classified as an „NGO“ it is just another arm of American propaganda. A majority of its board of trustees are/were federal staff. There have also been many accusations of them working directly with the CIA.
I am in no way giving a statement on Belarus’s ‚freedom score‘. I would just be wary of trusting any NGO on any matter that has Freedom, Liberty, Democracy, etc… in the name.
I have not experienced any limitations on freedom in Belarus. Yes, you need to be careful what you say regarding politics but increasingly is not that also true in the USA?
Others have mentioned issues traveling abroad or being educated abroad but I was educated in the USA and also Russia. I’ve had no issues with any of this, and I know Belarusians in the USA currently with likely plans to return. I know Russians also who are graduate students in the USA. The sanctions have not closed off educational exchanges or possibilities thereof though some things for financial reasons are more difficult.
To compare Belarus to Afghanistan as that nation is now is insane. In Afghanistan, women are finding the careers open to them greatly truncated whereas in Belarus plenty of women are in highly-educated medical, technical, and academic fields. In Afghanistan both men and women must dress very modestly in agreement with the Taliban’s interpretation of Muslim faith whereas in Belarus a Speedo is fine if I want to go swimming.
Note also that your linked list scores China very low as well, yet I have Chinese friends who are very happy with China, have earned considerable wealth, can buy luxury goods, can travel freely around the world, have very good educations, enjoy great safety and mobility in society. Maybe they cannot post on social media things critical of their government but all would say strongly they have very good and secure lives.
It is very peaceful and quiet, like a cemetery.