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Prison Labor & Impression Management @ IKEA

Thomas Klikauer
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In the wake of the nine-month-old Russian war against the Ukraine, a country most take little note of has emerged: Belarus. Besides mistreatment, torture, and the death penalty, Belarus’ infamous form of capitalism is also linked to a corporation whose...

From Belarus, with love…

Maciej Wiśniowski
Belarus
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A postcard from Minsk. The sculpture Unbowed Man by Sergei Selikhanov at the Khatyn Memorial site in Belarus. It depicts Yuzif Kaminsky, the only adult to survive the Khatyn massacre of March 22 1943, in...

A Polish soldier asked for asylum in Belarus

Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski
Belarus
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This is a special edition of our show. We are here today to discuss an exceptional event taking place in Poland. Emil Czeczko, a Polish soldier mobilized at the border, defected to Belarus and he...

December’s thumbs up and down, part two w/ Youri Smouter

Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski
Belarus
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As the end of December and the year 2021 approaches the hosts of "On the Barricades" sat down with the youtuber Youri Smouter to offer critical leftist commentary on the month's most important events. We...

The horror intensifies: the Polish border guard attack migrants with gas and water cannons

Boyan Stanislavski
Belarus
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The Polish side is becoming increasingly cruel. Near the closed border crossing Kunica-Bruzgi, desperate migrants threw stones, branches, and empty cans of tinned food at Polish officers and soldiers. On the Polish side, the police...

Poland’s response to the ‘migrant crisis’ is brutal, irrational, and repugnant

Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski
Belarus
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To believe that the Polish response to the migrant gathering on the Polish-Belarussian border could be even remotely rational and meaningful, one would have to be completely insane. Let us begin by recognizing that those...

Migrants pay the price for Poland’s nationalistic posture with their lives

Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski
Belarus
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The hosts of "On the Barricades," Maria Cernat and Boyan Stanislavski, discuss the situation on the Polish-Belarussian border in this episode, focusing on the Polish authorities' cynical, violent, and downright stupid response to what they...

Sadism towards migrants on the Polish-Belarusian border and Poland’s political theater

Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski
Belarus
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You have most likely not heard about the humanitarian crisis on the borders of Belarus and Poland, as well as Belarus and Lithuania and Latvia. This is because, as soon as the news went viral,...

Warfare on the borders of EU: hybrid-legality and a chance for the Left?

Andris Šuvajevs
Belarus
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In early August, the government of Latvia declared a state of emergency on the border with Belarus. Included in this measure was a decision to not accept any asylum claims. While the emergency measure is...

Why did the EU accept authoritarianism in Bulgaria but object to it in Belarus?

The Barricade
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This is the second part of a two-part discussion on Europe's growing authoritarian tendencies, especially in Eastern Europe. We'll talk about the West's hypocritical and selective response to this phenomenon in this segment. The EU,...