Belarusian Woman: I Hate People In Uniform

A cry from the heart of a woman from Brest.

A resident of Brest was forced to flee the country after being interrogated and threatened at a police station. In Threads, she explained why she did so.

“I’m Belarusian,” she writes. “I love my country—for the memories, for my friends, for what I had there, for my dreams.

I dreamed of living in the countryside with my children. To have chickens and goats, to drink my own milk in the mornings, to collect eggs. But I hate what’s happening! I hate people in uniform! I don’t understand how people can do such things. How can they threaten a mother who has no one else with what’s most precious to her—her children?

I’ve been to the police station twice; they called me in as a witness for the simplest of cases. But it all boiled down to one thing: “You don’t care about your kids—what kind of mother are you?” You’ll go to prison, and the kids will go to an orphanage. And yet they all know that while they’re holding you, the kids are home alone—and it doesn’t bother them one bit. But as a mother, it bothers me terribly. You’re already on edge, and on top of that, the kids are home alone. I stepped out for a couple of minutes, and they’ve already been home alone for several hours. I have no relatives, of course, so you’ll agree to any conditions. And record a “confessional” video showing how well the police are doing their job. I ask: “Do you realize that if I record a video, everyone will get the message? That the cops forced me to record this video and dictated the script?”

They all understand, but the system works like this: they’re told what to do—and they do it. And they’re also very proud of their salary. It just came to mind. Some big shot in uniform showed up and asked how much my ex-husband pays in child support; I answered, and his next remark was: “If he worked for us, he’d pay three times as much.” “What that was supposed to mean—I have no idea.”

In another post, a woman from Brest said that she had already crossed the border with her children and is now in Warsaw.

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