18 AUGUST RELIEF ALL ROUND IN BELARUS

RELIEVED     

THAT’S HOW BELARUSIANS WOULD BE  

TO SEE THE DEMISE OF ALEKSANDR LUKASHENKO   

DICTATOR OF MINSK FOR MORE THAN A QUARTER CENTURY    

RELIEVED OF COMMAND WITHOUT HIM EVEN REALISING? 

LUKASHENKO ADDRESSED TRACTOR FACTORY WORKERS

AS IF RALLYING THE RANK+FILE IN 1950 NOT 2020     

WHEN THEY CHANTED FOR HIM TO GO AWAY   

‘THERE WILL BE NO OTHER ELECTION UNTIL YOU KILL ME’  HE WARNED 

YES VOTES MAY YET BE COUNTED OVER LUKASHENKO’S CORPSE   

RELIEVING THEMSELVES WHERE THEY STOOD   

DEMONSTRATORS DETAINED IN A CROWDED PRISON COURTYARD

WITHOUT WATER FOOD OR FACILITIES    

RELIEVED TO DISCARD CAP’N’BADGE INTO THE BROWN BINS UNIFORM ACROSS THE COUNTRY 

EACH TO THEIR OWN PHONE  

AN ELITE GROUP OF SPECIAL FORCES SOLDIERS

LANTERN JAWED

DISPLAYS DISGUST FOR THE DICTATOR

WISHING THAT DICTATORS ANYWHERE+EVERYWHERE 
COULD BE BROUGHT DOWN NOW    
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