No career prospects for non-partisans?

Ideologists in regions intimidate people with the People’s Assembly, the “all-seeing” eye of the KGB and inability to get a promotion without joining Belaya Rus organization.

Ideologists of Babruisk enterprises were instructed at a staff meeting in the city executive committee what themes they should discuss with their subordinates. One of the main problems for local executives is the oncoming People’s Assembly.

Babruisk human rights activists learnt from a source in the city executive committee that ideologists were ordered to warn people that “something terrible and grandiose will happen on 8 October”. They were advised to destroy copies of “Pravda Mogilevshchiny” newspaper (with information about the event) would they see them at enterprises.

Local authorities invented another new way to intimidate people: “We track whe websites you visit even at home”. Ideologists advised people to visit only odnoklassniki.ru, a Russian social network site, and culinary websites.

The ideologists also worry about attracting new members to Belaya Rus organization, which will be reorganized in a party. Young specialists were warned they cannot count on promotion until they join the pro-Lukashenka organization. This makes Belarus even more similar to the USSR.