dictatorship is anticompetitive practice(slaves work is cheap) and relying on it...

forinti · 2026-04-23T12:45:03 1776948303

There's no doubt that it's a dictatorship, but Belarusian citizens are not slaves.

Furthermore, when have sanctions achieved anything other than suffering for the people?

Plus, I'm pretty sure that some sanctions are very convenient for some parties on this side of the game.

dlahoda · 2026-04-24T21:05:13 1777064713

> Belarusian citizens are not slaves.

These laws de facto prevent most of Belorussians leave country long term and force them to work (even if they do not need to):

- Decree No. 3 “О содействии занятости населения”(including redaction from 2018)

- Decree №278 and Decree №294

There is more laws added overtime, reality on the ground even more harsher of laws - North Korea style. I doubt anybody would argue that there is no slavery in NK.

dlahoda · 2026-04-24T21:11:17 1777065077

> sanctions achieved anything other than suffering for the people?

I feel that some sanctions indeed `achieved anything other than suffering for the people`, but I did not research.