Belarus, run by a jurassic communist dictator, is the most horrible tyranny in Europe. U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has specially noted the vileness of this brutal Marxist dictatorship,  where human rights are utterly absent, and encouraged the opposition.  But in this gray, Stalinist state, so unlike the rest of New Europe, there is virtually nothing to be hopeful about and opponents to the regime are treated harshly. Even the right to demonstrate is so constricted that Belarusians have few prospects for a Velvet or Orange or Rose or Daffodil revolution, as happened in the other states and satellites of the old Soviet empire. But something dramatic and unique is happening as a response to the intolerable conditions of the Belarus dictatorship. The Belarus dictator likes to yell a lot about how there won't be any Ukraine—style 'Orange Revolution' and he uses his muscle to make sure. But people outside Belarus, friends and neighbors whose hearts have been...(Read Full Post)