Yes I know, the statues of Belarus is a bit of a niche subject I suppose. Why would you do an article on Belorussian statues? Well, I’ll tell you why – they’re ace. I put up a post recently about Chernobyl and Belarus and the picture below with blue people in it piqued my fancy. I hadn’t got anything better to do so I got to work Googling the halibut out of Belorussian statues.
It turns out they’ve got some belters.
Minsk, the capital, looks like a pretty cool place, but I’m not up for living there. The leader of the country is widely described as the last tyrant of Europe and it sucks to be underneath him.
Click here for more deets on the monumentally unlikable Belorussian despot Alexander Lukashenko.
By all accounts Minsk is an immaculate place, it gives off the exact impression that the Belarus leadership wants i.e. “everything is AOK”. Once you’ve left the clinically clean capital things aren’t quite so pleasant.
More on next page… if you can hack it…
One thing that soviet countries do do rather well is statues. They’re bold, stark and generally massive.
Brest Fortress is a crumbling dog turd of a building compared to the staggeringly austere statues and threatening entrance.
The fort played a big part in the Soviet’s World War II efforts against Hitler. So although the fortress isn’t much to look at itself it’s held in high regard, hence the stone based decor.
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So there you go. I’ll leave you with a couple of quotes from Alexander Lukashenko, just to give you an idea of what the poor people of Belarus are up against:
If someone is a lesbian, it’s man’s fault
It’s better to be a dictator than gay
