How can a dictatorship be prevented or destroyed? This question was asked by, if not every, then every second Belarusian in the country. This interest was partly based on the belief that people should not be suppressed and destroyed, which regimes always do.
Having personally suffered from the Lukashenko regime, I familiar with many people who suffered from repression and went through prisons, beatings, and humiliation. My students were people who fought against the fascist regime and survived. I talked with Belarusians who escaped death and with people who helped save them.
Through the testimony of the people of the insidious nature of the dictatorship, cruelty caused pain and anger, and cold-blooded courage delighted.
It hurts to think that any dictatorship leaves behind so much death and destruction. Interest and experience have given rise to the firm hope that tyranny can be prevented.
You can fight it without exterminating each other; you can defeat it and prevent it from re-emerging from the ashes. Fighting a dictatorship is not easy, but any form of struggle involves complications and losses. Naturally, confronting dictators will require sacrifices.
I want to convey methods of struggle that involve as little suffering and sacrifice as possible. At the same time, I cite examples of real participants in the struggle against Europe's last dictatorship.
This is how this book came about. It is far from perfect; nevertheless, it can help with predictions about what the Belarusian people have gone through and are going through in modern history.
Moreover, one should not think that if a particular dictatorship is overthrown, all other problems will disappear. The fall of the regime does not automatically lead to the realization of the utopian ideal; it opens the way for hard work.
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