Why Did Slutsk Citizens Burn Court Together With Judge?

The will to resist is in the blood of the inhabitants of the city.

Slutsk is a quiet city, it has a little more than 60 thousand inhabitants. But it also has quite troubled pages of history, Belsat’s report says.

"The glow was visible. A large glow. The court was burning. The next day I went to school. It was 1967," – Slutsk resident Mikhail Krasutski recalls.

In that way the residents of this city expressed their disagreement with the verdict. The judge was burnt in the building. A policeman died. There was a massive fight with the police and internal troops.

The court accused a City Executive Committee employee of hooliganism

Although Henadz Hapanovich together with a relative had beaten up a worker, who died later. About three thousand people were demanding a stricter sentence.

And the rioters were severely punished. Two of them were shot. Almost 15 people got long prison sentences.

"People rebelled. Since that time, our local people were not allowed to power in Slutsk. Believe me. They concluded that it was a politically unreliable city. And we were politically unreliable inhabitants," – Mikhail Krasutski told Belsat.

The will to resist is really in the blood of the city inhabitants

It was here where the Slutsk rebellion took place, when the residents defended the Belarusian independence from the Soviets in 1920. And in 1967, they fought against the injustice of the Soviet court.