Yury Khashchevatsky: Lukashenka Reminds of a Sergeant from an Anecdote

He is trying to command the rushing at high speed train.

First of all, scheduled speech of Lukashenka on the "republican teachers’ meeting" of August 24 turned to several hours of shame for him. The dictator finally confessed that he used to be a hooligan when he was a child.

It doesn't matter now because few peopletake his words seriously in Belarus. Consequences of this pompous event can lead to are more important.

The bottom line is that schools of Minsk and the Minsk district have adopted the "for Kolya schedule", it is proposed to cut higher education to three years, Belarusian school children and teachers are waiting on "abusive" word - dress-code. Help with the dress code should be organized by the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Ihar Shunevich, more precisely, prisoners who have already sewed a form for hockey players.

Charter97.org asked a notorious Belarusian film director Yury Khashchevatski to comment on results of the "teachers' meeting":

- This is ridiculous. Especially this "abusive" word dress code sounded ridiculously. After all, it is clear why this word is swearing for him. Do you know why?

- No.

- Because, having heard about all these "innovations", the Belarusian people secretly sent off with a flea in the ear.

The idea of a dress code in the design of Lukashenka leads to this reaction of the majority of Belarusians.

Oddly to say, but the "teachers' meeting" was held in a good way. The fact is that Lukashenka absolutely needs no educated people. Too clever people are not required at all. He needs stupid soldiers.

Soldiers not only in the army, but everywhere: in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, courts, schools, hospitals - even in psychiatric institutions. According to Lukashenka's plan, everyone should wear uniform. To be honest, I think that he is making a concession to the diversity of human life and thinks: one uniform must be made for pupils, the other for teachers. Uniform aims to make all look identically.

The ideal of Lukashenka is to dress everyone in military uniform overcoats, sweaters, Persian lamb coats, give lower ranks to students, and higher to teachers. Well, he himself gave the title of Generalissimo long ago. That's how he sees the whole country: brains are not needed, only soldiers.

This was already mentioned by the former vice-premier Anatol Tozik, who believed that people should be taught not integrating, and differential computing, not programming, but working with a coarse file. They need a classic person described by Orwell in "1984".

Lukashenka wants to create such a state, because then the government becomes increasingly welcomed. It is the one who decides how many toilet paper, sets of uniform is given and how many times a day one can go to the toilet. This is what the current regime strives for. All the latest Lukashenka's hits of bigotry are to get everything possible militarized.

At that, he looks like a mad sergeant from an anecdote when he is ordered to stop the train and cries: "Train, stop! Hup, two!".

Lukashenka acts the same. We constantly hear his orders: "Economy, recover! Hup, two!". But it doesn't recover! There are a lot of wise people and they do not march in columns. Everything will be fine, if everyone walks in a row.

Considering economy, these principles of Lukashenka have been experinced. Now they get a metaphorical character when he says: Shunevich will sew uniforms in prisons. Let's imagine the entire country wears uniforms cons will sew. It means for him that the whole country should be turned into cons who sew uniform for themselves. This is the ideal Lukashenka strives for.

- Soviet leaders had the same ideal. Then not only uniform, but "right" hairstyles for schoolchildren were imposed. But I remember when on September 1, 1991, after the failure of the putsch of the State Emergency Committee, all students did now wear pioneer ties... The USSR had more resources, but it also collapsed. Can we succeed in execution of our ideal, not the Lukashenka's one?

- Of course, we have much more opportunities and chances to overthrow the dictatorship. At least because we have the excess to the Internet. Young people and other receive more and more alternative information there. Young Belarusians actively learn foreign languages, become open to new opportunities.

Those chains he tries to put on the people will turn into "harm set, harm get". And all simply because one cannot be a log in the path of progress and civilization. Civilization will crush this log!

I cannot specify the time it will happen. But it will happen in any case. In the modern world a person acquires more and more freedom and becomes more and more independent. Therefore, Lukashenka and his "shunyavki" with their NKVD ideals and methods will not succeed. Progress cannot be stopped. In the end, people will understand that they do not agree to give up on their future. The mole of history digs relentlessly, and water finds its own level.

The main thing is that we, as a nation, would not suddenly find ourselves at a village railway station called "Sovkhoz Gorodets" the train already ran by. Therefore, it is necessary to awaken and act now.