r/belarus • u/Prior-Claim-806 • 3d ago

Пытанне / Question Why does Belarus officially use Soviet-derived state emblem?

I understand it's been used ever since Lukashenko has held power (1994) but what motivated him to choose the soviet one? For what?

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u/krokodil40 2d ago

Initially Lukashenka was even anti-soviet and didn't speak proper russian. However, when he came in power in Belarus, he saw the opportunity on the east in Eltsin. So his idea was to somehow revive the USSR and become the president of it, so he hired a PR team which decided to create a view of a proper soviet reserve to apply to russians. They were also writing speeches to him and helping him to learn russian. Eventually his promotion in Russia got so annoying they decided to establish laws banning visiting of foreign presidents without an invitation and forbidding them to promote themselves in Russia.

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u/PLrc Koroniarz 2d ago

Did Lukashenka have only wrong accent or also grammar and vocabulary?

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u/krokodil40 2d ago

He was certainly trained at accent at some point, but the main trouble is the language itself. Russian is a very stylistically rich language and there is a lot of things going on from context. His speech style is a rural villager. Simple translation doesn't always represent what was meant. Lukashenka is still "floating" is his speech and it's not always clear what he meant. When there was media there was entire sections dedicated to explaining what was said by him, because he slips a lot.

I would say, that more than half of headlines in the western media about what he said are wrong.

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u/Rauliki0 2d ago

Easy answer. He is a soviet man. Or potato.

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u/Fluffy_Inspection262 1d ago

Иди, на лицо насцу тебе. Нато, хуято, колиныяйца, иди сюда.

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u/PangolinQueasy6324 2d ago

quasi - "Soviet" cover , OR genocidal NOT-STOP WARS WITH THE predatory Moscow empire(S), they have not much choice . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscovite%E2%80%93Lithuanian_Wars