Residents Of Vetka Were Forced To Paint Fences And Lay New Tiles For Lukashenka's Arrival

The big rush evoked nothing but anger in the Vetka dwellers, who demand jobs instead of show off.

A small district center Vetka in the east of the Homel region is experiencing a "road-facade boom". Workers are digging the central streets, putting curbs, laying asphalt. Along the way, they paint facades of buildings, repair street lights and telephone connection, Radio Svaboda informs.

“We were ordered to complete all street work before April 20,” – Aliaksandr, a road worker from Rechytsa, explains. Together with other workers he lays asphalt on the road ring at the intersection of Oktyabrskaya and Batrakova Streets. Further down the Oktyabrskaya street road workers from Buda-Koshelevo are smoothing the asphalt crumbs with shovels.

Workers from Dobrush are also bringing the Vetka’s streets and roads to order.

Cultural workers together with the kindergarten staff paint the fences in the village of Khalch, which is on the right side of the Sozh River at the entrance to the district center.

Large-scale reconstruction is carried out in the center, on the Red Square. Park there was thinned, some trees were cut down. Workers from Brahin took all the tiles off the sidewalks to replace it with fresh ones.

The pedestal of the monument to Lenin gets a new marble cladding. Visiting specialists paint the facades of the library, the museum, the House of Culture. Workers change the curbs and lay the asphalt on the Soviet Street adjacent to the Red Square.

A 57-year-old unemployed resident of Vetka, who said his name was Ivan, commented on the big rush:

“They would better added jobs. There are many people here who are going to Russia now and then to earn the money.

I used to work in the municipal services. Now I have no job. Cotton-spinning factory has become bankrupt and is being sold out. The same situation is with the weaving factory and milk factory. Only institutions providing municipal services and agricultural services are left. Moreover, Chernobyl took away half of the district. Now try to live here.”