Belarus: Wasted sovereignty. Modern history of Belarus [OSW Documentary]

In today’s video we discuss the history of Lukashenka’s Belarus. The authoritarian Belarusian president took power at the beginning of Belarus’s post-Soviet history. We discuss Belarus’s history timeline and Alyaksandr Lukashenka’s Russian ambitions. Do Belarusians want democracy? How are Belarus-Russia relations? Is Belarus a post-Communist country?

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  • @tubetotto
    @tubetotto4 ай бұрын

    This is way better than most of Netflix productions!!! I've watched it with excitement for every new thread and digression or personal opinions of the experts. LOVED IT!

  • @2711darkus
    @2711darkus Жыл бұрын

    Popieram produkcję takich filmów w języku angielskim.

  • @siphotheguy1870

    @siphotheguy1870

    9 ай бұрын

    Speak English here please.

  • @zuzannatruba

    @zuzannatruba

    6 ай бұрын

    @@siphotheguy1870 wtf? Does English own the internet in your opinion? Just use the translation button

  • @izoh90
    @izoh9011 ай бұрын

    Great doc, like its lenght.

  • @SoulSiedziBlizej
    @SoulSiedziBlizej Жыл бұрын

    Thanks for this

  • @siphotheguy1870

    @siphotheguy1870

    9 ай бұрын

    How could you be thank full for this?? It's terrible for the people of Belarus!

  • @SoulSiedziBlizej

    @SoulSiedziBlizej

    9 ай бұрын

    @@siphotheguy1870 I'm grateful that someone is making movies about this topic fool

  • @nightsyrkahcum
    @nightsyrkahcum Жыл бұрын

    great documentary

  • @amcespana2150

    @amcespana2150

    9 ай бұрын

    great garbage of western propaganda

  • @skullmaster6888

    @skullmaster6888

    Ай бұрын

    @@amcespana2150buzzwords

  • @logimw
    @logimw Жыл бұрын

    Very good video my friend

  • @marcinjan4137
    @marcinjan4137 Жыл бұрын

    A sensible description of the modern history of Belarus

  • @serz1885

    @serz1885

    9 ай бұрын

    how do you know?

  • @michaelogden5958
    @michaelogden595824 күн бұрын

    12:10 Gives a whole new meaning to "Dumber than a box of nails". In other words, there aren't many things as ludicrous to be charged with the 'theft' of a box of nails.

  • @yolomolo3889
    @yolomolo3889 Жыл бұрын

    Komentarz dla statystyk

  • @Hoyllandgeorge-qc5uz
    @Hoyllandgeorge-qc5uz9 ай бұрын

    God bless you man !!!

  • @siphotheguy1870

    @siphotheguy1870

    9 ай бұрын

    Thanks.

  • @lecoqjeannot3358
    @lecoqjeannot33589 ай бұрын

    Excellent historical documentary

  • @amcespana2150

    @amcespana2150

    9 ай бұрын

    excellent propaganda garbage

  • @robtrawick1

    @robtrawick1

    8 ай бұрын

    @@amcespana2150 The only people that believe it's propaganda are Trump/Putin supporters.

  • @Woloh
    @Woloh3 ай бұрын

    What are you talking about? Are you even looking around? - War in Moldova - 7 wars in Georgia - War in Azerbaijan (and in Armenia) - War in Tajikistan - War in Chechnia - Bink of war in Kyrgyzstan - And now the War in Ukraine (for 10 years already) Russia did not let any single country off the hook. Not a single one that tried to look West. NOT A SINGLE ONE!! You cannot compare Belarus to Poland, Slovakia, Czechia, Romania or any other NATO member. Unless you are ready to accept Belarus into NATO right now, immediately - no delays, no negotiations, no preconditions, no criteria, nothing, immediately, and move NATO troops inside of Belarus right away... if you are not ready for that - then the status quo (no war, no destruction, no deaths) is the best deal Belarus can hope for so far. Wake the F up! And compare apples to apples.

  • @viktormarkosolomon4116
    @viktormarkosolomon411610 ай бұрын

    La sovranità non é mai sprecata! Importante mantenerla!

  • @Koczu0
    @Koczu0 Жыл бұрын

    tactical comment

  • @praiagrande1579
    @praiagrande15799 ай бұрын

    Free Belarus 💪✨❤️

  • @amcespana2150

    @amcespana2150

    9 ай бұрын

    Belarus is already "free" unlike of the western europe colonies

  • @elliotjung1766

    @elliotjung1766

    6 ай бұрын

    there is no any freedom in nazist 'russian world'.@@amcespana2150

  • @bebrajmuhova7653

    @bebrajmuhova7653

    5 ай бұрын

    @@amcespana2150 yes, and now lukashenko fascist state can freely get rid off from any national symbols and national language, be faascist russia puppet - is the real freedm unlike, in EU, of course

  • @IDKMTO

    @IDKMTO

    5 ай бұрын

    Жыве Беларусь!

  • @IgnasLT1111

    @IgnasLT1111

    2 ай бұрын

    Thanks

  • @g4m3r222
    @g4m3r2229 ай бұрын

    they didnt build an independent nation with its own culture, own flag and language and sold themselves to russia, lukashenko adopted russian and decided to stay soviet

  • @herptek

    @herptek

    8 ай бұрын

    These are actions that one would expect from a demoralized nation without any kind of horizon for future or conscious will for self-determination.

  • @lisagrobbelaar-el6ls
    @lisagrobbelaar-el6ls10 ай бұрын

    Well done Belarus

  • @serz1885
    @serz18859 ай бұрын

    best country in this world

  • @jamaciek97
    @jamaciek97 Жыл бұрын

    Theese documentaries are great, but releasing them in this way isn’t very strategic. If You want wider public aim for quantity with shorter form movies. As far as I know it should stimulate algorithm much better. Love Your work either way! Good luck!

  • @orphandextro7046

    @orphandextro7046

    10 ай бұрын

    I, for one, don’t want super summarized videos on subjects like these, I want the gritty explaining of why things are as they are.

  • @chad12345678

    @chad12345678

    9 ай бұрын

    Screw the algorithm just focus on making great content

  • @michaelahern6821
    @michaelahern68219 ай бұрын

    That place should be squeezed ecomically

  • @ondaride777

    @ondaride777

    7 ай бұрын

    u can't. many structures function in Belarus without any currency. sanctions worked only on the news, but in reality Belarus continued to trade and purchase all necessary goods in and out. Today it's the safest country in Europe for foreigners to travel with lowest crime rate. No traveler notices any signs of aggression of government against population there and great sincere hospitality. check more videos on how people from different parts of world visiting Belarus instead of watching propaganda. Check out how many expats from Western Europe purchasing properties to retire in Belarus. Those are real factors, not propaganda.

  • @AdaZurpia
    @AdaZurpia9 ай бұрын

    Bela🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡

  • @andykerr3803
    @andykerr38039 ай бұрын

    We will find you all.

  • @mitchyoung93
    @mitchyoung9310 ай бұрын

    "Wasted" because the country doesn't dance to the EU/NATO tune? Seems to me that's true sovereignty.

  • @Ymma58

    @Ymma58

    9 ай бұрын

    KGB agent?

  • @mitchyoung93

    @mitchyoung93

    8 ай бұрын

    @@Ymma58 KGB?

  • @robtrawick1

    @robtrawick1

    8 ай бұрын

    I'm guessing you're an agent of the KGB or a Republican.

  • @JeeeeeZ289

    @JeeeeeZ289

    8 ай бұрын

    @@Ymma58cia agent☝️?

  • @elliotjung1766

    @elliotjung1766

    6 ай бұрын

    Joining EU/NATO is the only way to recover the country's language, culture, return a lot of people banished because they don't wanna be 'russian' nazists and be part of the moscovian empire. So it really means to regain sovereignty.

  • @peterjaniceforan3080
    @peterjaniceforan30805 ай бұрын

    🇷🇺👎🏼 🇧🇾 😢

  • @rubenjames7345
    @rubenjames73459 ай бұрын

    I like listening to these at night, but 95% of this vid isn't dubbed. Makes it worthless.

  • @johnsambo9379
    @johnsambo93799 ай бұрын

    So you have to do what daddy America says or your aren't a proper European country. Hmmm?

  • @durakbl1n

    @durakbl1n

    Ай бұрын

    no, it has to listen to its own people and not a killer from a different country

  • @nara808
    @nara8082 ай бұрын

    Gotta love this kind of blatant pro west propaganda.

  • @POCKET-SAND

    @POCKET-SAND

    Ай бұрын

    How exactly is it propaganda? Lukashenko came to power and immediately raised Russian to the status of official language and made it the language of his government. Russian language and culture is promoted over Belarusian and a minority of Belarusian young people speak Belarusian over Russian because of him. Additionally, he replaced all of Belarus' traditional flags and national symbols with Communist ones of Russian origin. He is a Russian puppet.

  • @thorlight697

    @thorlight697

    Ай бұрын

    @@POCKET-SAND Хз, кто там из молодняка говорит на чистом беларуском. А флаг бело-красный-белый читая каловая масса под закос на польский, что общего у Беларуси с Польшей хз...

  • @POCKET-SAND

    @POCKET-SAND

    Ай бұрын

    @@thorlight697 More in common than they have with "Russians." Belarusian language shares 77% of its vocabulary with Polish. Only 60% with Russian.

  • @God7OD
    @God7OD9 ай бұрын

    I hate how the word democracy is used synonymous with good

  • @sc1338

    @sc1338

    9 ай бұрын

    It is

  • @God7OD

    @God7OD

    9 ай бұрын

    @@sc1338 boofa

  • @Snaut1

    @Snaut1

    Ай бұрын

    Better than a KGB murder-police state.

  • @JemHadar422
    @JemHadar4229 ай бұрын

    This is BS where is the counter arguments only one sides crap

  • @Ymma58

    @Ymma58

    9 ай бұрын

    KGB agent??

  • @durakbl1n

    @durakbl1n

    Ай бұрын

    Oh, you can easily find it on every TV channel in Belarus

  • @evbuzzi6749
    @evbuzzi674910 ай бұрын

    The "authoritarian" Belarus never invaded, bombed or destabilize other countries. Otherwise, the so called democracies of civilized world... "This report reviews the latest research to examine the causal pathways that have led to an estimated 3.6-3.7 million indirect deaths in post-9/11 war zones, including Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Syria, and Yemen. The total death toll in these war zones could be at least 4.5-4.6 million and counting, though the precise mortality figure remains unknown. Some people were killed in the fighting, but far more, especially children, have been killed by the reverberating effects of war, such as the spread of disease. " -> "HOW DEATH OUTLIVES WAR: THE REVERBERATING IMPACT OF THE POST-9/11 WARS ON HUMAN HEALTH" sovereignty ? what sort of sovereignty european countries have ? europe is destroying its economies and taking a risk to be destroyed in a big scale war just to obey american/british interests ... what a sovereignty innt !!??

  • @ndwandwewasendwedwe7964

    @ndwandwewasendwedwe7964

    10 ай бұрын

    Great point. And when they say Belarus is a puppet of Russia they forget that USA has more than 30 puppet countries in Europe in the form of NATO and EU

  • @JeeeeeZ289

    @JeeeeeZ289

    10 ай бұрын

    You are absolute correct. As a Swede I recognize my own country as a puppet state for the EU/USA. We no longer for sovereignty

  • @ilokivi

    @ilokivi

    9 ай бұрын

    The EU is a peace project, intended to avoid conflict which led to two major wars in a generation devastating most of Europe from Brest to Volgograd. To prevent conflict, cooperation by trade is the means. Poland, Lithuania and Slovakia understand this and have developed their economies to the benefit of their people as a result. The UK left the EU in 2020 and has not prospered. The US is far away from Belarus. Russia is next door.

  • @donkoiot

    @donkoiot

    9 ай бұрын

    Can you make same calculation with communist/dictatorship caused deaths compared to democratic countries victims. Lets see.

  • @evbuzzi6749

    @evbuzzi6749

    9 ай бұрын

    @@donkoiot the only country i know that could be communist are venezuela and north korea, and these 2 countries never invaded or bombed other countries killing thousands

  • @SI-cd7xs
    @SI-cd7xs10 ай бұрын

    if you've actually been to belarus you know how developed it is, and before devastating western sanctions in 2014 it was doing much better by gdp per capita metrics than multiple former eastern bloc countries like Bulgaria and Croatia. This despite being a landlocked country with zero natural resources.

  • @BelarusLukashenko

    @BelarusLukashenko

    9 ай бұрын

    That’s because a good leader is at the helm, Lukashenko

  • @ondaride777

    @ondaride777

    7 ай бұрын

    that's because no one in Belarus will ever be able to cover farms into parking lots and offices and because they have large parts of the land that cannot be traded to any currency and finally because vast majority of the nation outside of progressive Minsk support current leader for as long as he has beating heart. Erdogan is also at power for over 20 years and there are no human rights issues there at all. On contrary, Turkey was always a leader on population growth. For those who wants to get "richer" off Western economies especially around Minsk or Homel he isn't favor, but for those who wants to be not fully dependent on Western currency he is father and family so go figure, because reality isn't a movie and nooz on TV.

  • @Name-og4th

    @Name-og4th

    7 ай бұрын

    @@ondaride777 Back in 2020 regions showed even more support to opposition than the capital.

  • @vortix8671

    @vortix8671

    6 ай бұрын

    ahahaha that's bullshit.

  • @bebrajmuhova7653

    @bebrajmuhova7653

    5 ай бұрын

    ​@@BelarusLukashenko no, lukasheska is bad leader he just fascist freak what dont do NOTHING good for country, fucking NOTHING

  • @AllAboutYouTubers13
    @AllAboutYouTubers139 ай бұрын

    *Belarus the west is waiting RIGHT NOW for your choice of freedom!*

  • @user-fr9mw9go7z
    @user-fr9mw9go7z10 ай бұрын

    Not truth inside

  • @boguszasmann6844
    @boguszasmann68449 ай бұрын

    Belarus saved from us occupation should be the title

  • @elliotjung1766

    @elliotjung1766

    6 ай бұрын

    You probably don't know that belarus language is being eliminted and replaced by 'russian' as well as culture and pretty much agressively. 3 big cities of Belarus are occupied by so called 'russian federation': briansk, pskov, smolenks. No americans have done anything that bad to people of Belarus.

  • @boguszasmann6844

    @boguszasmann6844

    6 ай бұрын

    @@elliotjung1766 how do you know? fake, Belarussian is fine and well

  • @1qmik

    @1qmik

    Ай бұрын

    You mean **saved from existing normally*

  • @Ese_osa
    @Ese_osa9 ай бұрын

    Yeah wasted sovereignty because they’re not American puppet 😂😂 Once you’re American puppet you automatically become sovereign and democratic

  • @Ymma58

    @Ymma58

    9 ай бұрын

    KGB agent??

  • @Ese_osa

    @Ese_osa

    7 ай бұрын

    @@Ymma58 nato bot 🤖??

  • @elliotjung1766

    @elliotjung1766

    6 ай бұрын

    Actually, Belarus doesn't have any power to compete with the nazist empire 'russian federation'. Being an 'american puppet' means returning be;arusian language, culture, religion (which are replaced for now) and have power to resist attempts of that empire to eliminate that country.

  • @harshvardhan556
    @harshvardhan5569 ай бұрын

    Sovereignty means American pet dog?

  • @sc1338

    @sc1338

    9 ай бұрын

    No it means being free and not poor. They’re pathetic compared to the west

  • @IDKMTO

    @IDKMTO

    5 ай бұрын

    Sovereignty: a self-governing state. So, if Sovereignty means American pet dog then USA IS AMERICAN PET DOG?

  • @aliciakennedy8138
    @aliciakennedy81386 ай бұрын

    Belarus will be far better off in the future with russia because russia has vast resourses of minerals and cheap energy while nato countries freeze and can produce

  • @bebrajmuhova7653

    @bebrajmuhova7653

    5 ай бұрын

    We hearded this from russia propaganda for all decades of lukashesku, dont need this shit more, russia is cursed, like their fascist corrupted system

  • @IDKMTO

    @IDKMTO

    5 ай бұрын

    Russia is selling itself to china while fighting meaningless war with Ukraine and common sense. Meanwhile NATO and USA are not perfect, but they can learn from their mistakes. I would rather live in "USA puppet state" than in "Russia puppet state" . By the way I am Belarussian.

  • @felixargyle3659

    @felixargyle3659

    3 ай бұрын

    Vast resources of minerals they can't afford to dig up, and fossil fuels to continue polluting the planet because they can't afford green energy either. Nice copium, I'll continue living in my cozy middle-class house with electric heaters powered by solar panels while the people of Belarus continue to suffer the economic wrath of the West.

  • @1qmik

    @1qmik

    Ай бұрын

    🇷🇺 bot

  • @rbrb5275
    @rbrb52759 ай бұрын

    More western propaganda

  • @Ymma58

    @Ymma58

    9 ай бұрын

    KGB agent filfy pig

  • @1qmik

    @1qmik

    Ай бұрын

    More ruzzian bots

  • @abdullahkarim4678
    @abdullahkarim467810 ай бұрын

    I’m studying History why you chosed Russia