The God Father Movie: the Kremlin Puts More Pressure on Lukashenka

Published: 05 July 2010

Russian major television channel NTV featured a movie “The God Father”. The movie depicts the story of mysterious disappearances of major politicians in 1990s and other human rights violations committed in Belarus recently. The documentary also emphasizes that Russia has spent enormous amounts of money to support the Lukashenka regime. According to the movie, Russian subsidies is the main reason for the “Belarus economic wonder”.

The Belarusian president came in for some bruising criticism on 4 July, the official Belarus Independence Day, where he was portrayed as a dishonest, unscrupulous and ignorant dictator intent on holding onto power at all costs.

The God Father movie (available below in Russian) is a clear sign that the Kremlin wants to put pressure on Lukashenka in the wake of presidential elections in Belarus.

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Submitted by An American in Belarus | BELARUS DIGEST (not verified) on Sun, 08/01/2010 - 19:28

[...] of Europe,” and the

[...] of Europe,” and the truly observant know that he was recently shown in a Russian-produced, made-for-TV-movie called The Godfather. But before rushing to judge Belarusians on what appears to be their [...]

Submitted by Economist: It takes one to know one | BELARUS DIGEST (not verified) on Fri, 07/23/2010 - 04:02

[...] One good thing about

[...] One good thing about what is going on is that for the first time the public in Belarus and Russia can hear basically the truth about the neighbour’s government. Belarusians can get truthful stories about problems with freedom of speech in today’s Russia (see a report by the Belarusian TV channel STV here). On the other side, Russian TV tells the truth about Aliaksandr Lukashenka in its scandalous documentary The Godfather. [...]

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