Opinion of Belarus

[Snowstalker Mk. II]

And we move out of the "A" countries.

[Wake Me Up When The Hard Border Ends]

Horrible Country by far.

[dead0man]

In the top 5% of the worst places on Earth.

[RedSLC]

Authoritarian and de facto dictatorship - Horrible Country, possibly the worst in Europe.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

And we move out of the "A" countries.

And into the A-hole countries.

[TDAS04]

HC.

[Goldwater]

Authoritarian and de facto dictatorship - Horrible Country, possibly the worst in Europe.

[freefair]

Politically, it's state is terrible, but it's not an evil, malicious or unpleasant nation to live in by any means- Peter Hitchens described it as "efficient communism"

[© tweed]

I'm a big Lukashenko fan, so FC.

[LastVoter]

I'm a big Lukashenko fan, so FC.

This is interesting, can you explain why? Is it just his "anti-imperialism"?

[dead0man]

Lets see....Lukashenko uses violence to crush critics, takes hostages to get things he wants, rigs elections, regularly blames minorities for the problems he's created, has one of the least free press in the world, is anti-union, anti-gay, anti-Jew, anti-Pole, jails political opponents and then tortures them and thinks Germany was greatest when Hitler was in charge....but he's anti-west too so he's clearly a hero!

[morgieb]

One of the few bad countries in Europe.

[© tweed]

I'm a big Lukashenko fan, so FC.

This is interesting, can you explain why? Is it just his "anti-imperialism"?

they've refused to sell the entire country to the highest bidder, unlike the rest of the post-Soviet world.

[dead0man]

That's enough for you to excuse all the misery he causes?  What would he have to do to be an HP?

[Mechaman]

That's enough for you to excuse all the misery he causes?  What would he have to do to be an HP?

Arrest the minorities and gays and grind them down into a nice little powder to be used in making pizzas.

But if I know some people on here well enough, they would just claim that it's okay because they were really Zionist Capitalists.

[politicallefty]

HC, both for all the reasons listed above and the fact that it is the sole country in Europe that retains and exercises the death penalty.

[Franzl]

Not sure how one can call Belarus a freedom country. Although curiously, I'd be somewhat interested in visiting it.

[PJ]

HC, both for all the reasons listed above and the fact that it is the sole country in Europe that retains and exercises the death penalty.

[LastVoter]

I'm a big Lukashenko fan, so FC.

This is interesting, can you explain why? Is it just his "anti-imperialism"?

they've refused to sell the entire country to the highest bidder, unlike the rest of the post-Soviet world.

Well wouldn't Putin be a bigger FF by that metric, since he re-nationalized a lot of key industry and jailed/killed/exiled the responsible capitalists for privatization when possible?