“You take your clothes off and jump.”Europe’s most authoritarian political system is coming undone at the hands of people like Dudinsky, who long flourished within it. Trapped inside their country by the coronavirus pandemic, many Belarusians began to chafe at the inhumanity in Lukashenko’s rule and language that had once been easy to ignore. With the government absent, Belarusians started their own campaigns to raise money for victims’ families and encourage people to work from home. “It’s no longer realistic to force Belarusians back into the box they existed in for these 26 years,” he said. “Something broke inside Belarusians — a fuse broke.”c.2020 The New York Times Company

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