‘It Would Be Good To Put Lukashenka Behind Conveyor Belt!’

The rebellion is growing ripe in the regions.

In the morning on October 26, about half a hundred mechanizers and drivers of the agricultural cooperative Unitary Enterprise “Kryusk” in the Buda-Kashaliova district, Homel region refused to start working. The agro-town workers receive $25 a month. It’s impossible to live on such sum in the Belarusian realities. The authorities pretend not to notice the problems of the ordinary citizens and report the “achievements”.

The website charter97.org talked with representative of the Belarusian National Congress in Homel Ales Yauseyenka on how the Belarusian regions live, and whether the local rebellions are some characteristic features of the time we live in.

— In the Homel region, the average salary is about $ 100. By and large, there is no work in the countryside at all. Can you remember the situation in which Ivan Khvoin found himself? Back then, the authorities began to fight the African swine fever virus and destroyed all of his farmsteads without having asked. He did not receive any compensation. He hired his fellow villagers, residents of other villages, who simply did not have money to buy a loaf of bread, and he gave them work.

Residents of rural areas are simply in horrific conditions. People have been taken away from work, but they have not reached retirement age yet. That's why people rose up against this injustice. If a person lives in a village, then, are they some second-grade human beings? And when the sowing season begins, people work from dawn to dusk.

— Workers of Kashtan factory are on strike in Homel, Polatsk Glass Plant also announced strike. It turns out not everything is so rosy at the Belarusian enterprises...

— I was returning home yesterday night and witnessed the conversation of the employees of the Homel factory Spartak. They were returning after the working shift and said “It would be good to put Lukashenka behind a conveyor belt! He would have known then how people live!” The people are dissatisfied with low salaries, with the fact that it is hard to get to work. Spartak is reckoned a more or less sustainable enterprise in Homel, but the people are discontent, then the situation at other plants is apparently worse. The people are angry with these authorities, as sure as a gun.

Yesterday, for instance, they arbitrarily raised the public transport tariffs. Without informing the people. In developed countries, the authorities report to the trade unions on every penny, added up to the prices. Many people are so shocked about what has happened in our country, they lose connections to the reality, and do not understand that the economy is done.

The authorities have driven everything to such an absurdity that somehow managed to corner themselves. The resolutions, decrees, everything they do at the local level is such a stupidity that no one cares to fulfill it. The authorities don’t know what to make themselves busy with. I will give you a simple example: the staff of the auto-school have been authorized to take charge over 3 kilometers of the road, which they are supposed to keep clean. The auto-school is in no way related to this road. What do we have in the end? The students of the school cannot be obliged to clean the road as they pay money for studies. Take a broom and sweep! The instructors are always busy at work, when are they supposed to do this? At night?

All this stupidity will bring our country to collapse, it is happening already.

I am not even speaking about the huge sums of money spent for keeping various controlling authorities, which produce nothing, but get the money.

In Homel there was a bearing plant — they shut it down, the people were thrown out onto the street, and made a shop out of it. The factory of plastic products was also closed.

— You mentioned the closing enterprises. The number of jobs in our country does not seem to be growing. Young people tend to leave to work abroad. However, not everyone will leave. What should Belarusians, who don’t want to go anywhere, do?

— I’ll tell you something: as soon as they eat up the winter stock, canned pickles and jam, you see what will happen, when spring comes. A rebellion. The authorities must not drive the people to such a state, they’d better go and negotiate with the opposition leaders! They should realize that the oppositionists are the people who care about their country, and want to live normally, while the officials behave as fools. Instead of all together working out a way out of the situation in which we ended up, they continue to drive our country into some Middle Ages. Whacko ideologists sit at enterprises, "filter" people, choosing only those with "correct views". With all these measures, they are going to bring people to the point when they will go to the partisans.