Belarus: An Ordinary Dictatorship (2018)

6.8/10 0 min Documentary

Overview

It’s the last dictatorship of Europe, caught in a Soviet time-warp, where the secret police is still called the KGB and the president rules by fear. Disappearances, political assassinations, waves of repression and mass arrests are all regular occurances. But while half of Belarus moves closer to Russia, the other half is trying to resist…

Cast

Alexander Lukashenko

Self (archive footage)

Aleś Bialacki

Self

Natalia Pinchuk

Self

Boris Yeltsin

Self (archive footage)

Vladimir Putin

Self (archive footage)

Mikalai Statkevich

Self

Barack Obama

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Marina Adamovich

Self

Svetlana Alexievich

Self

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