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Nevilledog

(51,120 posts) Thu Mar 25, 2021, 05:30 PM Mar 2021

Broad-daylight authoritarian repression in Belarus.

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John Scott-Railton
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WOW... the abduction in the background of this interview.

Broad-daylight authoritarian repression in #Belarus.

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Broad-daylight authoritarian repression in Belarus. (Original Post) Nevilledog Mar 2021 OP

I wonder what became of her soothsayer Mar 2021 #1

Omg, that's horrifying to watch...... poor woman secondwind Mar 2021 #2

An expert on authoritarian societies said that 99% "collaborate" Hortensis Mar 2021 #3

soothsayer

(38,601 posts)

1. I wonder what became of her

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Thu Mar 25, 2021, 05:32 PM

Mar 2021

secondwind

(16,903 posts)

2. Omg, that's horrifying to watch...... poor woman

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Thu Mar 25, 2021, 05:54 PM

Mar 2021

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)

3. An expert on authoritarian societies said that 99% "collaborate"

Reply to Nevilledog (Original post)

Thu Mar 25, 2021, 06:03 PM

Mar 2021

with their oppressors (the discussion was about various forms of collaboration with authority) in order to get along. As the other pedestrians presumably are. It's normal to be so protective, too normal to wonder at.

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