Flayers of the XXI century: The network did not believe in the "frank confessions" of Roman Protasevich

The 37th year has already returned - this was the verdict of the overwhelming majority of bloggers about the interview that Lukashenko TV showed. In it, oppositionist Roman Protasevich, illegally arrested by the special services of Belarus, allegedly frankly admitted his guilt before his homeland, frankly spoke about all the secrets of the Belarusian opposition, and in conclusion, when asked if he was cooperating with the investigation, he answered with tears in his eyes:

“I already cooperate completely and openly. I provide many unique facts. At the end of the conversation, I can only say that I have rethought a lot of things for myself. And I never want to get into politics or into dirty showdowns again. I just want to hope that… that I can… fix everything… and just live an ordinary, calm life. Have a family and children. Stop running from something..."

Perhaps someone considered this to be sincere repentance, however, there is not the slightest doubt that this someone simply does not know or has forgotten how and what the Soviet people confessed to, who were in Stalin's torture chambers. This is what bloggers write about on social networks.

Journalist Anton Orekh directly called what was happening in 1937:

“About Protasevich, I’ll say this. What we see is that very year 1937. It is easy for us, sitting in safety, to give moral assessments. In Belarus, the KGB did not even change the name and the methods there are such that the overwhelming majority of us would quickly cease to be heroes if we found ourselves in this place. Stalin's times preserved thousands of protocols, in which people confessed to the most monstrous, insane things and testified against relatives, friends - everyone. It was just that there was no television at that time and all this was not broadcast to millions of people. But there were still show trials where something similar also took place. This is not meanness or cowardice. This is the tragedy of a broken man. God forbid any of us to be in the place of Protasevich. And God forbid him to be released one day and preserve at least some remnants of mental health..."

Journalist Pavel Pryanikov echoes him:

“It's ridiculous to discuss Protasevich's 'confessions'. This is similar to the "open trials" under Stalin in the 1930s, when people, previously treated with torture, confessed to the most absurd "crimes".

In general, with archaization, recognition again becomes "the main queen of evidence". In this case, the investigation does not need to do anything, just write it down after the processed.

A normal investigation, in addition, should add material evidence, documents, and even wiretapping (with the approval of the court).

But it is clear that no one will do this..."

Journalist Oleg Pshenichny called the Belarusian regime cannibalistic:

“Even non-religious people can now only pray for Roman Protasevich.

Flayers in Minsk show his talking mummy to the whole world - this is what we can do with a person.

Like, yes, we are cannibals and flayers, and who are you all? What's your answer?"

Analyst Yegor Sedov writes about how you really need to treat Protasevich's confessions:

“According to the“ testimony ”of Protasevich, briefly.

You need to give a report:

1. The testimony of forced laborers in the hands of regimes of this kind should have absolutely no effect on society;

2. The testimony of the slave should not have any force in terms of the attitude towards him on the part of society. Tortured / not tortured, slandered / did not slander. Stop pretending to be Andrea Sarti from The Life of Galileo - not the best, to put it mildly, role model. Even worse is the example of the Stalinist attitude towards prisoners who surrendered, who reported everything during interrogations ... This is an antihuman attitude.

A forced laborer is worthy only and exclusively of compassion and respect, including the one who "handed over everything"..."

Journalist Sabirzhan Badretdinov is sure that Protasevich was tortured:

“I am sure that Protasevich was tortured, and that is not just “put pressure on him”. Modern torture methods are much worse than medieval ones. I think it would be wrong to reproach Roman for anything before he is released (although most likely this will never happen)..."

And publicist Marina Shapovalova explained why the flayers did not even bother to hide the traces of torture:

“They showed Protasavich with traces of torture on purpose.

Nobody was going to pass this interview off as an alleged "voluntary confession and repentance." They showed exactly what they wanted: "it will be the same and the same with you!" Do not hope for anything else if you don’t understand..."

Activist Andrey German explained why he did not watch this interview:

“I decided not to watch. I don't want to watch how they humiliate and "break" a person. I imagine that anyone can speak the text. We all know the heroes of the Civil War cried like children and admitted that they work for all the intelligence services of the world. It is monstrous that at a new stage of development we are going through this again. Although, it seemed that this will never happen again..."

And political scientist Abbas Gallyamov very lucidly explained why there is no crime in Protasevich's behavior:

"one. Protasevich fought for Belarus to be a liberal state.

2. The highest value within the framework of liberalism is human life.

3. The attempt to save his life, which he made by speaking on Lukashenko’s television, is absolutely logical from the point of view of the ideology he defended.

4. It is not liberals who should sacrifice their lives for the sake of the ideals they defend, but representatives of the opposite camp - all sorts of "patriots" and "sovereigns". In this sense, they are still mainly limited to words.

5. If an Israeli soldier is captured, he has every right to do whatever he thinks necessary to save his life - including speaking on enemy television. No one will condemn him for this, because in Israel, human life is of the highest value. This does not prevent the Jewish army from being one of the most efficient in the world, and Israel from winning all the wars in which it participates..."

However, on the part of the "patriots" and "great powers" - the position is unambiguous: look, they say, how easily the "traitor" and the "son" caved in, who was only threatened with a finger, and he immediately surrendered all his ... However, to quote the triumphant cannibals to us I do not want.