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One Day of the District Center, Lukashenka Should Better Stay Away From

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One Day of the District Center, Lukashenka Should Better Stay Away From
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The villagers advise the dictator to stay away from them.

Sharkovshchina of 2003 made the correspondent of Salidarnasts depressed. Grey town with a minimum of shops, the Soviet-type hotel in its worst form. In a word, it's desperation. The Catholic church and the Orthodox one on the bank of Disna River are the only things to remember.

Sixteen years later, the town looks a little more colorful. Yes, there are closed buildings, cinema building in poor condition. But there are more shops and cafes. New apartment buildings appeared, and there is a nice park in front of the district administration building.

"It's just a wrapper," an acquaintance of journalists noticed.

Her words were confirmed by the local residents we met in the private sector near the Uspenskaya Church.

"We have no work!"

- There are more shops. But can we buy there? Salaries are miserable. Do you have children? Yes, you do. You know what it's like to be ready for school. Uniform, tracksuit, shirts, extra clothes. We also need many other things. I spent more than 500 rubles for the first-grader, and my salary is only 350 rubles. And how can I get out of it? the man who works in one of the state institutions says.

- Do we have some work here? No! Everything is closing down, only the canning plant is operating and producing alcohol of low quality.

Journalists talk to a local resident about recent trips of Lukashenka to the regions:

- He won't come here," the man noticed with confidence. - If he arrives, he will have to jail many people here. You see how it happens: he arrives, and there the cow ...doing her job. He starts firing everyone!

The interlocutor believes that the president should change his tactics. He tells how to do it:

- I would not warn local officials so that they had no time to throw dust in eyes. I would have taken assistants, come to the garage and said: "Fill up the car, we are going to Sharkovschina today". I would have come here, talked to the people and visited the factories that remained. Has he anything here to look at?

"The situation is changing for the better"

Former teacher Ihar Dzemidovich, who agreed to tell Salidarnasts about life in Sharkovshcina, shared the same opinion:

- He prefers to travel to paradise. He has nothing here to look at.

At the same time, the former teacher does not share a common view of Sharkovshchina as one of the poorest districts:

- Yes, the district is not the richest one. State enterprises die, but the situation is not so hopeless. In recent years, I have observed the up trend. New private enterprises are opening. Previously, the district had been run by Soviet-inclined officials, who kept the head of innovations low. They just hoped nothing evil would come of it. The new chairman (Dzmitry Lomako - S.) is not like them. He is an economist, and people began to open shops, small businesses.

Ihar Dzemidovich believes that his fellow countrymen need to stop complaining and come up with the main thing:

- Old times fall into oblivion. There is no money, we should arrange our own life. People are accustomed to the fact that the state must provide them with jobs and pay salaries. But the root of the problem is not in the leaders but ourselves. First of all, we are the ones to determine our future life.

"Collective farms are poison, a disease"

- We do not want to make money. When you drive to Braslav or Hlubokaye, you can see people sitting along the road and selling baskets with apples, potatoes, etc. We don't have that.

If you drill down deep, then collective farms may be the reason. The strongest were once defeated, the rest received the slave gene. Nobody was responsible for anything, everything around belonged to collective farms...

And it captured the whole of society. Like poison, a disease. We still face it now. In the early nineties people's eyes were burning, they wanted this land for farming. But top officials decided to preserve collective farms, which waste millions from the budget. Who will do it now?

Does Sharkovshchina have a future?

- There used to be a brick factory here. We have great clay in the area. Then it fell into decay. A foreign investor got interested in the enterprise, but nothing was done. The production can still be fixed," Ihar Dzemidowich said.

After school, he went to Russia for several years to earn money as a builder, then worked as a taxi driver in Minsk. Then he returned home and now works for the Belarusian-Czech company.

- Yes, many people leave. You know, they are like butterflies hovering around a lamp. But many of them will return. If parents have business here, the children will continue their work. Young people need start-up capital - this is a difficult issue. I guess one should not bother them. My friend's son started buying in jeans, dyeing them, making prints. His friends and acquaintances liked it. People from Minsk make orders. I think one day we'll hear about a new popular brand from Sharkovshchina," the interlocutor smiles.

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