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Article
Belarusian Identity in the Post-colonial Labyrinths
Author(s)
Iryna Shumskaya
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DOI:10.17265/2328-2134/2021.03.002
Affiliation(s)
Belarusian Enlightenment League of America, New York, USA
ABSTRACT
The paper focuses on an
understudied aspect of the Belarusian identity. The special attention is paid to
the key role of patterns in a collective consciousness, which determine the direction
of human behavior and further development. Some typical mental stereotypes of modern
Belarusians are analyzed in the context of Post-Soviet worldview. The paper emphasizes
that the Belarusian society needs to define a clear basis of national idea, language,
symbols, values, and traditions. This sphere becomes the place of power struggle
today. The current colonial expansion by more powerful states is going now on more
refined scheme than the previous primitive armed intervention, namely through cultural
expansion and economic dependence of neighboring weaker countries. Interrelations
between Russia and Belarus today are a vivid example. It is necessary to understand
that the “Russian World”, that Kremlin’s propaganda offers to modern neighboring
nations, will hold only a dictatorship, militarism, repression, and suppression
of freedom. Today this is the main challenge not only for Belarusian identity but
for its independence as well.
KEYWORDS
Belarus, protests, nationalism, identity, post-Soviet matrix
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