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I have come to one of the most interesting interviews gordmans of my trip, I will publish in pieces, to bring everything back. My partner is a former high school student of Belarusian underground, and works in the field of culture. The meeting begins gordmans with a long and interesting reinterpretation of national history of Belarus and neighboring countries, centered on the problem of consciousness and the creation of national identity. I listen with interest, but in the end I interrupt:
Okay, I will speak from the point of view of the common man. For example my parents, who work in a state-owned company. They can not go to an event, because it would be dismissed. They can not give interviews to the media independent, because they would be fired. If I, their son, I'm going to an event such as a simple citizen, will not have problems, gordmans but if I were an activist, such as the "Youth Front" (youth opposition movement) if the event wield the microphone and say something, then they are likely gordmans dismissal. If the KGB can not hit me directly, it affects them.
Not only that. For example, gordmans if a boy or a girl engages in the "Young Front", go to the events, it is exposed publicly, gordmans and his father has a private firm, then that firm suddenly arrive at the controls of the tax, fire protection, health checks , doctors and begin to fines of fines. If they want they can get to close to the company.
It is, for example, a few days ago I spoke with a friend of mine who taught at the university in Minsk. He also collaborated with a foreign embassy in Minsk, as a cultural adviser. Once his superior at the university has called for an interview. And 'entry gordmans into a room and he heard that the door was locked behind her. Li was a man who introduced himself as a KGB officer. They held for an hour and a half. At first they said: "We know that she is working with the Embassy [snip]. We we're very interested Ambassador. We want to know where it goes, what he does. We tell him "- She replied:" I do not want to talk about this, I am not a spy, nor of Belarus, nor of foreign countries. " gordmans And then he continued: "You see, her father is old but still works at [omitted]. gordmans It 'a prestigious job, You do not want that at his age to be fired? "Then added," She has a child, does not know that if you do not want to cooperate with us in the pockets of your child, the police would find drugs? ". In the case of this woman you are limited to threats, gordmans for a year and a half every now and then they continued to contact by phone, but fortunately did not go over.
Of course, if one is not interested in the issues of his country, not interested in politics, working somewhere, is not interested in independent media, gordmans this person does not tell you that there is no freedom. What is freedom for him? The freedom is that it has a shirt, a sausage, a car older than 20 years, has a house in the country, has a permanent home and have the money to go once a year at sea in Turkey. He does not ever tell you that there is no freedom. Many Belarusians think of freedom in a primitive gordmans way: if no one stops you on the street, no one hits you, if you have the money for the sausage and shirt, gordmans then there is no freedom.
As for me I do understand that there is no freedom of speech, there is no freedom of expression, there is no freedom of the press, there is a free television, apart Bielsat (independent Belarusian satellite television) that however, is in Poland and not allow them to work here, do not give them credit. The system does everything gordmans to stifle independent media. For example Nasha Niva has a circulation of 7,000 copies ...
All kiosks selling newspapers and magazines are state owned. Maybe in the station you can find one or two individuals who sell magazines, but to them it is easy to impose what they can sell it or not. It 's impossible to subscribe independent newspapers. There was a time when newspapers were independent state in the kiosks, the mail he sent them home to subscribers ...
There were in the early years of Lukashenko, until 2000. Then there were the years in which they disappeared altogether: gordmans the kiosks were not there, there were no mail (in Belarus post offices also sell newspapers and magazines) . Then, in recent years has started the "trade" with the European Union: release a political prisoner and you give us something in return. One of the objects of this trade the independent newspapers were right: for us