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Belarus: Bombing while Economy Burns

Posted April 18th, 2011 at 6:05 am (UTC+0)
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When a massive bomb goes off in a police state, one can only ask: where were the police? Belarus is the Cuba of Central Europe — a police state. Type “List of countries by size of police forces” into Wikipedia and you will find that Belarus is the champion, with 1,442 policemen for every 100,000 […]

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