Teachers from pickets of Belarusian dictator: “We haven’t seen such a shame in whole our life!”

In Minsk teachers and preschool teachers are compelled to collect signatures for Lukashenka.

As “Human rights watchdogs for free elections” report, in the secondary school number 71 teachers were given a kind of quota for the number of signatures they are to collect from parents. In the kindergarten #241 kindergarten teachers were given signature sheets, and according to the idea of the administration, parents who take their children home are to give their signatures. Others, according to them, are signing their names “only out of respect to kindergarten teachers” or “put of pity for poor educators”. Parents add that they will vote for Lukashenka in no case.

In the schools of the capital there are more and more cases when teachers are made to stand in street pickets for collection of signatures. Nearly complete fruitlessness of their work should be noted: least people come up to the pickets with Lukashenka’s portrait. It happens often that passers-by are coming near to them not to put a signature, but to awaken the collectors to a sense of shame. Sometimes emotions of citizens are demonstrated rather aggressively, and as a result teachers refuse to collect signatures for Lukashenka in the streets.

For instance, observers saw an incident when two Minsk teachers had a quarrel with a headmistress. On her order they were freezing in the street to no avail all the weekend. “We have not faced such a shame for whole our life! People who know us, dwellers of our native district, are coming up to us and simply scolding! We have heard so many nasty things!” teachers complained. One of them stated: “It’s better to walk down the street drunken or naked, than to demean oneself so! They won’t force us there any more!”

To the words of one of the passers-by that people are fed up with Alyaksandr Lukashenka and he must leave, one of the participants of the picket of the Belarusian Republican Youth Union in Malinauka urban district confessed: “I agree with you by 200%, but we do not collect signatures voluntarily, we have been compelled.”

State officials who are collecting signatures compulsorily, are often standing unpleased, or indifferently call, yawning: “Who else wants to give a signature for flourishing Belarus?”

Sometimes, as if for purpose, they choose strange background for placing portraits of the leader. For instance, a poster with the words “Resident Evil” or a comedy: “You again”. Near “Maskouski” bus station representatives of Belaya Rus organization have placed a picket against the background of the plaque: “We invite you to buy tickets to Holland, the Czech Republic, Poland, Germany…” As soon as journalists started to make pictures, women seized the portrait of Lukashenka and went to the yard of the bus station. “Where are we going to carry him?” they asked each other laughing. “Hide it from sight as far as you can!” a middle-aged man said sulkily. Picket participants stopped and put the portrait of Lukashenka near a different plate, “Exit”…