Academician Rubinau: Belarus has never been independent

The ex-speaker of the Council of the Republic discussed our country’s fate (its past, present and future) in SB. Belarus Today. “Belarus has never been an independent state,” Rubinau thinks. He sees nothing Belarusian in the GDL and calls the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth a suppressor of Belarusians. He did not even mention the Principality of Polotsk and the Principality of Turov and Pinsk.

The polonization of Belarusians was followed by russification, Anatol Rubinau noted. Then there was the Belarusian People's Republic and its politicians fawned upon the German keiser, he said. He only considers the BSSR a positive change and a step towards the creation of the Belarusian state in the future.

Belarusians voted to preserve the USSR in 1991 but the union collapsed. “The Belarusian Parliament voted for independence on an impulse”. However, there was no independence because Belarus ‘was 100% dependent on Russia’, the academician claimed. “The process of building up the Belarusian statehood” started only when Alyaksandr Lukashenka came to power in 1994.

Anatol Rubinau urged the people “to let Alyaksandr Lukashenka continue leading our country” at the end of his long article. It will help preserve Belarus, he believes.

Archive photo. Photo: Euroradio.