Slavery from Lukashenko
The Lukashenko regime admits that in the coming years Belarus will lack more than three hundred thousand workers. Such conclusions are contained in a new macroeconomic review by the Eurasian Development Bank, published back in March 2026. In it, EDB experts assess the new state program "Balanced Labor Market for 2026–2030."
The personnel needs of the Belarusian economy in 2026–2030 will exceed 300,000 people. But the figure itself is not the scariest part. What's scarier is how the regime is trying to close this gigantic gap. Instead of reforms, instead of development, instead of creating decent working conditions, we are being offered enserfment.
What is their plan? To attract fifty thousand foreign workers from Central Asia over five years. They calculate that migrants will cover seventeen percent of the need.
But if foreigners don't come, at whose expense does the regime plan to close the remaining eighty-three percent? The answer is obvious: at the expense of Belarusian men and women. At the expense of their children, their parents, at the expense of everyone who still remains in Belarus.
The first blow falls on the elderly. They will present to us the lifting of restrictions on payments to working pensioners as "care." Instead of well-deserved rest after decades of hard labor — a lifetime of forced work.
The second blow — on our youth. Already today the system of mandatory job placement for graduates has turned into plain forced labor. But the regime goes further: the terms of mandatory work are being extended, punitive financial compensation for refusal functions like astronomical fines, and targeted enrollment is being expanded to tie a young specialist to a specific enterprise for years ahead.
The third blow — on the vulnerable and the "unemployed." The so-called lists of "parasites" are not a fight against parasitism — they are classic fiscal racketeering and administrative terror.
The fourth blow — special contingents and enserfment on the ground. The expansion of the practice of using prisoner labor, sending people from labor-treatment facilities to the hardest, most dangerous, and least desirable jobs. And in parallel with this — the introduction of bureaucratic barriers to moving between state enterprises. Directors are effectively forbidden from "poaching" employees, and a person is tied to a rigid contract from which it's impossible to break free without permission from superiors.
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