Cutting each other's throats’: Allies fear Russia will annex Belarus to save Putin’s life

Washington Examiner ^ | December 26, 2019 12:05 | by Joel Gehrke

[NorseViking]

Generally true. I hate Communists but Soviet era produced a sort of alternative civilization which had certain pros on top of many cons. That’s history do we like it or not. I am strictly against idiots smashing Soviet monuments in Asia and East Europe.

[Verginius Rufus]

I seem to recall reading somewhere that when Lee Harvey Oswald lived in Russia and met the woman who became his wife, she had trouble placing his accent, and guessed that he was from Minsk.

When the UN was created, Stalin got three seats--for the USSR, for the White Russian SSR, and for the Ukrainian SSR. In other words, Belarus is an original member of the United Nations. If they allowed themselves to be absorbed by Russia, would they still have a separate membership in the UN?