The Belarusian Fighters

The Atlantic ^ | September 7, 2022 | Anne Applebaum

[Dr. Franklin]

[G]athered in a basement on a quiet, tree-lined street, the Belarusians preparing to leave Warsaw to join the Ukrainian army look more like a bunch of computer programmers getting ready for a long car trip. Maybe that’s because they are a bunch of computer programmers—or anyway, some of them are—gathered in a basement on a quiet, tree-lined street, getting ready for a long car trip...If they are identified, members of their families could be visited, harassed, even arrested by the Belarusian police. “Our relatives are hostages,” one of them told me. Already, mothers of Belarusian soldiers fighting in Ukraine have been forced to make public statements denouncing their children.

{T]hey are young, in their 20s and 30s, and that they are on their way to join the Kastus Kalinouski Regiment, a military unit founded in March as a part of the Ukrainian army but with a separate, Belarusian status. [A]ppearances to the contrary, they and their leaders are thoroughly grounded in the international history of armed rebellion. They know their 19th-century antecedents: Kastus Kalinouski fought in the failed 1863 uprising against the Russian occupation of what was then the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. They know their 20th-century antecedents too, among them not just Orwell in Spain but Józef Piłsudski, a Polish general who fought with the Austrian army in 1914 because he hoped, eventually, to liberate Poland. Although Kalinouski was executed and Orwell’s cause ultimately failed, Piłsudski marched his Polish Legions into Warsaw. By 1918, he was the leader of independent Poland. The men in the basement are going to Ukraine both because they are, like Orwell in Spain, sympathizers with another country’s democratic cause, and because they hope, like Piłsudski in Poland, to eventually liberate Belarus from the dictatorship of Alexander Lukashenko, who has been in power for nearly three decades.

[Dr. Franklin]

The longer Putin's war in Ukraine continues, the more likely other parts of the former Soviet Union will also rebel and leave Russia's orbit. What's curious is that Belarusians get their heroes from old Polish speaking noblemen loyal to recreating the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, who called themselves Lithuanians, like Wincenty Konstanty Kalinowski, Tadeusz Kościuszko, and Józef Pilsudski, while Ukrainians created a hero out of a Polish nobleman who rebelled against it and its Ruthenian princes, viz. Bogdan Chmielnicki known to Ukrainians as Bohdan Khmelnytsky.

[Dr. Franklin]

Ukraine ping.

Sorry I don’t have the whole list. Feel free to ping more.

[AAABEST]

Pro NWO FReepers - down to posting trash propaganda from The ATLANTIC.

Ask me hownI know you're pathetically losing - pathetic loser.

[Timber Rattler]

Ad Hominum attacks are all you Putinistas have left.

[MercyFlush]

Pro-Putin FReepers, posting your usual constipation of ideas and diarrhea of words.

[Dr. Franklin]

Pro-Putin FReepers, posting your usual constipation of ideas and diarrhea of words.

Shortly, the rest of the troll farm will descend en masse.

[AAABEST]

Oh look - a gaggle-fk of mystery-meat n00bs, trolls and NWO sucklings don’t like me.

This is bad.

[FreshPrince]

Yes I have noticed that too....nothing but trash talking..

[FreshPrince]

Ah yes, lets revisit some putardrhea:

4/2/2022, 6:27:44 PM · 89 of 90
Kazan to Salohcin
“Encircled and about to die if they don’t surrender in eastern Ukraine. That you don’t know that means you nothing about what is actually other than propaganda you’re getting. It’s likely all going down next week.”

Looks like Kazan was the one eating propaganda....

[FreshPrince]

Zelensky is a fool.And I predict he will soon take his family and run. 4 posted on 5/24/2022, 7:09:29 AM by Sacajaweau ( )

[Robert DeLong]

Keep in mind what past “heroes” said after deciding to do this very same thing. The words fodder and abandoned come to mind. Those were the words of the survivors. The dead had no voice to describe their experiences.

[MercyFlush]

“en masse”. Some of those mutts will think you’re suggesting they’re all Catholics.

[MercyFlush]

I like you. Quite a bit really.

You exemplify the very best the pro-Putin camp has to offer to the world.

Carry on.

[Dr. Franklin]

“en masse”. Some of those mutts will think you’re suggesting they’re all Catholics.

Yes, they have problems with translations and transliterations on their troll farm which frequently give them away here.

[WMarshal]

A noob tries to push the leftist rag ‘The Atlantic’ in a poor attempt to convince us that the moron Biden and the communists globohomos will win their dirty war. The rag is pushing hopium. I suspect that Russian public opinion is solidifying its support of Putin. Meanwhile the BRIC alliance to topple the dollar moves forward in its plan to crush the global reserve currency status of the dollar and destroy America's economy while Europe goes into a period of hyper inflation and economic stagnation.

[JoJo354]

Zelensky was here in the US ringing the opening bell of the NYSE when his country is in the middle of a nasty war with Russia. What’s up with that? Was he here begging for more billions that seems to be going disappearing really fast. What’s up with that? I think a real leader would stay with his people and send a representative to ask for $$.I think he’s just having the time of his life and likes the limelight.

[Brellium]

Zelensky was here in the US ringing the opening bell of the NYSE when his country is in the middle of a nasty war with Russia.

Really?

pics or it didn't happen rashist dog.

[Timber Rattler]

Zelensky was here in the US ringing the opening bell of the NYSE when his country is in the middle of a nasty war with Russia. What’s up with that?

He did it from his office in Kyiv, remotely.

[Jan_Sobieski]

Worrying about 1 supposed communist 10,000 miles away is much easier than the 10,000 communists 1 mile away.

However, I’m certain the 10,000 communists will patiently listen to your objections and allay your fears. /s

[Krosan]

The author Anne Applebaum is a pretty decent person. She is famous for her many books exposing communist crimes.

Meanwhile Putinistas here post articles from the Communist Party USA and the Communist Party of Great Britain.