"After Each Such Flash Mob, The Adrenaline Goes Off Scale"

Homel "partisans" told about their secrets.

To begin with, let us recall the stories of Aksana Likhadzieuskaya and Natallia Glazkova from Homel. They were detained for a photo session with a doll similar to Lukashenka, and they had to flee to Poland with their children a few months ago, Flagstok writes.

When operatives broke into the home of Aksana's family, she was frightened but not very surprised. There are such times. She was surprised by something else. It turned out that they came with a search, and, among others, there were employees of the anti-drug department. Before that, the woman had already heard indirect threats like "we can find something."

As a result of the search, the operatives took the equipment even from the children's room. Aksana was taken to a conversation with lieutenant colonels of the Navabelitski ROVD Dzmitry Krotau.

By that time, the school became keenly interested in children, and the committee on labor, employment, and social protection became keenly interested in Aksana. A search was on Thursday, and she was going to a new job on Friday. She decided to leave.

Then in the telegram channel "Let's figure it out, Homel residents" posted personal information about Aksana and Natasha. This is in addition to the insults addressed to them. The girls went to write a statement to the Navabelitski ROVD. There, they already hinted to Natasha that a criminal case was being prepared for insulting police officers under criminal article 189. It was said that the girls had "wiretapping" in their apartments and cars.

“They will jail me, the children will be taken away, placed in an orphanage, and the youngest daughter can be taken away altogether.

Natasha could no longer think of anything else. Therefore, she took the children and went to her mother. Natasha was detained at the station in Homel, by the same Krotau. They twisted her arms, after which her shoulder hurt badly - apparently, they injured it. They seized flags, equipment, and money for the maintenance of children. After that, there was a search with the confiscation of equipment. They even broke into a common utility room - Natasha had to give him the keys after threatening to be beaten.

On the same day, Natasha packed her things and went to her mother. And then together with Aksana's family, they left Belarus.

Together, of course, it's easier. But no less scary. We only relaxed when we ended up in Poland. Here, the girls were overtaken by the syndrome of all political emigrants: fear of police officers, minibuses, slowly passing cars.

Months later, the fear disappeared, and it became easier to speak. They want to say a lot, for example, about how even in the last weeks before leaving they managed to "partisan," how each time they were hanging by a thread from being caught.

“We have learned to encrypt this way. Transfer machines, tracks. There was nothing to arrest us for "

“At once, you can take 10 pictures, for example. The main thing is not to display them the next day. Better - in a day or two."

Several pictures were taken in one evening, but they were exhibited at different times. And the most difficult thing in this, according to the girls, is not to post everything at once, Aksana recalls.

“I admire Volatava so much. These are my heroes. You see: they posted it, and you sit and post nothing. And you wan too, and there are photographs."

It was hard to restrain myself and not show solidarity, Aksana says. Sometimes I had to wait 4-5 days.

They tried to take pictures near some significant objects. To, as they say, "make an explosion." Sometimes, on the contrary, they had to hide. Then, for the background, gray staircases and typical entrances were chosen, of which there are a dozen in any yard.

But the girls' biggest "partisan" pride is the video at the entrance to Navabelitsa. It was on the edge, they admit. They still wonder how they were not taken then.

Making a short video with white-red-white symbols in Belarus requires incredible ingenuity, quick and accurate actions. Navabelitsa partisans deliberately confused local security officials in telegram chats with fake messages. Like, we are going there and there, and at that time, they agreed in PMs about a meeting in a completely different place.

At that time, the security forces were "pulled together" in the Prudy recreation area. To prevent them from guessing that they were being deceived, they periodically wrote the following messages in the chat: “AMAP has arrived. Let's disperse for 10 minutes and then go out again with flags."

In fact, at this time, the flags were already unfurling near the stele. The video was ready.

After each such flash mob, the girls say, the adrenaline goes off scale, and you can't stop. It was decided to continue at the Mir cinema, but first, they were going to meet in a cafe.

“A girl ran in and started hiding the flag under her jacket. Two-meter flag. She hides this flag, and we see there through the large stained-glass windows that AMAP officers are walking."

It turned out that the girl did not know about the tactics of "partisan warfare" and since no one gathered at Prudy, she came to the cinema, alone. She invited the rest of the chat to the same place. When she saw the AMAP cars, she wrote that she had thrown the flag behind the cinema. They were looking for it there with flashlights.

They did "partisan" actions as best they could and where they could: in entrances, courtyards, on roads, and in the forest. For the sake of several photos, people with walkie-talkies were placed around the perimeter in order to instantly wrap up and have time to hide. They practically never took their phones with them. Sim cards are located in two seconds. They also tried to gather in small groups.

Another rule of "partisan" is to confuse the security forces: to carry out rallies not in their cities. Then the local police simply won't find traces. According to this principle, a flash mob was once held in Tseheln. Four of us arrived at a big crossroads, at the entrance to the town and assigned tasks: someone paints and hangs disks on trees, someone a flag, and someone writes on the asphalt "We believe, we can, we'll win!" and "Long Live Belarus!"

“There is a road in the middle, and on the sides there are ravines. You see the car and hide on the ground. And I walked so much by the end of this that my legs just hurt, I could hardly get up every time to finish writing a letter,” Aksana says.

Once, after the fuss on September 27, in which Natasha was thrown to the ground and kicked, they decided to make another flash mob. Then the police asked her to sit at home for at least a week, and there was a lot of time for preparation.

Ships were cut out of polystyrene, they bought white and red ribbons and balls, they put it all together beautifully: the boats were painted in national colors, weights were tied to the balls and lowered into the water to stay on the surface. So they left it.

The next day we went to check if they survived the night. By morning, there was nothing. It turns out that someone specially sailed to the middle of the lake in order to catch symbols of protest. Then the girls saw one boat in the office of the aforementioned Krotau.

“We once asked them, they say, you are law enforcement agencies, don't you have to protect us? To which they replied “Who, are we law enforcement? We are punitive bodies."

Why the girls came under such pressure, they know. First of all, for that very photo session with a doll that looks like Lukashenka. And as the same employee of the Navabelitski District Department of Internal Affairs, Krotau, said later: "They interfere with our work."

Everyone knows that starting in August, or perhaps even earlier, the most important task of the Belarusian police is to deal with the protest. And some girls with dolls and "partisans" did not fit into their plans at all, and therefore, it is easier to detain, intimidate, crush. But there are also real tasks for which people should work in the police - the fight against crime. This refers to real theft, assault, and murder.

So, they did not hide their attitude to this kind of thing in modern "law enforcement agencies". Natasha herself witnessed the conversation in the police. A woman cut her boyfriend's throat, to which, according to the girls, the operative replied:

“Do whatever, but make it an administrative offense. I have to deal with the "political" offenders."