The first night after the Great Patriotic War, when grenades were torn in Minsk

The Cosmonauts took control of Minsk so as not to allow Lukashenko to spoil the holiday. Report from a peaceful city of the most peaceful country in the world

Alexander Lukashenko promised not to hold on to “blue hands” for power, but as soon as the power, which after these elections would no longer belong, began to float out of these hands, he squeezed them on the country's throat even more difficult than usual.

About how the manifestant was strangled in the ROVD, who dared to say something at the moment when he-like other people-was set to face the wall for many hours, with his hands tied above his head, Alexei Terekhov, designer, creator of the Lyapis, Neuza clips, “Noyza” ... “They took me just in the store in the center ... They came in, grabbed all the men”.

This was just August 9, on the very day of the election, which the next morning Lukashenko will give a holiday. It turns out that the “foreign puppeteers” tried to spoil this holiday ... Alexander Grigoryevich for a while forgot about Russian puppeteers (nevertheless Putin called before the elections, and then he immediately congratulated on the “victory”), now the main puppeteers (maybe, because the Czech, that the militia threw the manifestants with Czech light school grenades?).

On television, at that time, 80% of folk support and vile machinations of villains were transferred to the peaceful republic of the “Trojan horse of the Orange Revolution”.

The same night, the first night after the Great Patriotic War, when Minsk turned into an arena of battles - the grenades rumbled and glowed like small lightning, in different parts of the city to about three, and smoke rose at the Minsk - City Hero, then on Pushkinskaya, then at Sports, - I met in an alley at the Independence Avenue of a high beautiful person for seventy years. His face and hands were in abrasions and bruises. George Sergeyevich “Cosmonauts” seized Independence Square, as soon as he appeared there, put his face to the wall of the house and forbidden to move. Nearby, those who tried to do this were received under the knee cup, hands, in the face. G.S. But he stood until two hours later he was putting pressure on the ground. After all, in the city these days there is not enough air: a very stuffy atmosphere. In every sense, in all. On the day of the election, the thunderstorm was breaking through a couple of times and washed the patient Belarusian land, but then the steam rose, and the stuffiness returned.

The chief presidential candidate Svetlana Tikhanovskaya from this stuffiness and general tension nearly lost consciousness in her first press conference after the election. They opened the window, brought the fan. I caught my breath and continued.

But the authorities did not allow her to breathe at all. The candidate is random, but worthy and strong, a candidate who clearly stole the victory, she could not decide to call people to the street or go out to her herself. No matter how many journalists hint at this with their questions.

She has a husband in a Belarusian prison, she has small children.

The next day, the head of the KGB Valery Pavlovich Vakulchik said that the headquarters of Tikhanovskaya “guarded” 120 kagabashnikov (Lord, why such generosity, and even at the expense of Belarusian citizens receiving on average $ 200? And how much does Lukashenko guard? Or did he give all his rival, the “poor girl”, as he called her?). And the KGB, it turns out, managed to “prevent the attempt” on Tikhanovskaya, said Valery Pavlovich Vakulchik.

That evening, Svetlana disappeared from the radar, and the next morning it became known that she was in Lithuania.

G. S. voted for her at his site at the university of physical education - in the same place, by the way, Lukashenko votes. And in the square, when G. S. fell, quickly running to him of the ambulance (for the protesters, as usual, “all inclusive”: the ambulance stood next to the gas stations and pinkish buses with black special forces inside), they advised “not to recover” and escape in the hospital. Saved.

Now G. S. measures the central street of the beloved city with long steps and promises that tomorrow he will come again to stand where he wants. Because “already here are these ... (well, let's say,“ creatures ”)! G. S. - coach, teacher of the Institute of Physical Education.

“I have never protested before,” - like many of those who reached the point just to this election. (The same BMZ striking workers from a small, very provincial town of Zhlobin, about which it was never possible to think anything like that - after all, they work, in addition, on a “successful” enterprise by Belarusian standards).

Neither the name, nor the surname, nor the position of G.S. does not hide*. He says that Lukashenko knows since the 90s. He assures that this person certainly will not give the authorities and will not back down in order to continue to "arrange a holiday to the people." And everyone who tried to prevent him, of course, will receive their own after he "restores order."

"But until the end of the term he will not sit in any way",

-This is the mantra of all protesters who do not fully believe that the current protests will lead to something.

“I voted for him in the 90s, but, God, could I think that he would sit so much?” Adult sons G.S. this evening also went out - only to the stele, where the "astronauts" worked especially hard.

They returned home and did not get somewhere (into the insulator) “on the surroundings”-luck. For three days, I saw several times how they put passers -by on buses without asking anything and explaining anything. “Most often, passers -by do not ask anything, it makes no sense,” Andrei tells me, a system administrator, who returned with his friends with Pushkinskaya. “They will bring it - they will still write out a fine.”

His girlfriend takes out shot cartridges from his pockets - it seems, from a hunting rifle - selected at this informal meeting of "law enforcement officers" with voters.

“There was ... (well, let's say,“ end ”). They so pounded the guy lying on the ground, he seemed dead, ”says Andrei.

When the local journalist Misha is walking along the street and he sees one hundred meters from us at a corner from us in black, he makes a big hook so as not to be in their field of vision: “We will not give them a chance.”

At the same time, Belarusian journalists are one of those who are not on the State Academy of Sciences or, forgive the Lord, not in the newspaper “Soviet Belarus” - large heroes, especially in the province, and we still need to talk about it separately.

The state salary of the clock, like everything that this obsolete in the entry into force of absolutely Soviet power is trying to do in the country.

Although the Soviet government never fell to such a direct demonstration of the “native” people of their punitive power, as is being done in Belarus now.

The next morning, President of the Republic of Belarus, Alexander Grigoryevich Lukashenko, already peppy, fit, in a white shirt with short sleeves, opened a complex built by the Chinese called “Belarusian National Biotechnology Corporation”. He said that there are few in the world and that in general "this is Bolshe, Cham Cosmas."

Then, when the Internet broke through for a moment, I looked at the website of the State Agency and found out that the corporation “more than the Cosmos” will include “granaries, four plants for the production of cattle, birds and pigs, fish and plants for the production of premixes”, and “by the summer of 2024” - also “vitamins, amino acids, Krakhmino products, products of the Krakhmal. glucose production. "

There, in the territory of his new space, Lukashenko also spoke about Czech puppeteers: “One of the lines of these puppeteers is the Czech Republic. Today, the Czech Republic is already managing our United Staff ( *opposition. - *Ed. ), Where, forgive me, these sheep are sitting, not understanding anything from them. ”

Why "sheep"? For the same reason as “unfortunate girls” and “prostitutes”?

From a large managerial culture, strengthened at the post of president in 26 years? Or just a visit to the agricultural complex inspired?

In any case, Belarusians are certainly not the sheep who need a shepherd in 2020, whose space victory in the election has to be supported by a nightly cannonade in the streets ... “Lord, Belarusians are the most peaceful protesters in the world! They constantly shouted at all the election shares "OMON with the people!" (although this has never happened so far), and after the 63-thousandth rally of Tikhanovskaya, they even wrote a petition with gratitude to the Minister of the Interior, ”Yu and M. tell me, beautiful Belarusian journalists who helped me a lot here-as well as dozens of completely random people who now demonstrate hundreds of small signs of solidarity.

People open doors for strangers running away from the "astronauts."

For a few days, people have already raised 580 thousand dollars in the fund for assistance to detainees and wounded ... They collected 30,000 bold DJs that turned on the Tsevsky song “I want change” and who left for this in the insulator for 10 days.

People almost always let them “on the wifi”.

The Internet (“swaby”, by the way, is also “from abroad”)-these days the largest deficit in the country, which now has a wild thirst for information. People from small cities call on an independent radio and ask: tell us what is happening.

People who find out that you are a journalist invariably wish good luck and ask for caution. “Be careful”, “take care of yourself” - along with “Hello”, “thank you”, “Tikhars” (sexots, gesniki), “provocateurs”, “army”, “auto -zats”, “falsification” - these days the basic concepts in the country that a person is ruled by a triumphantly chosen 80% of the vote.

In Minsk, according to the CEC, he received in 70%. To understand how much these numbers are taken from the ceiling (or from the space?) It is enough to leave in the evening to any Minsk street. Try not to deaf from the signals distributing from each car. I did not have time to check for now if they were saying on the State University that it is so the people celebrate the victory of A.G. Lukashenko.

As the President of Belarus said, communicating after the elections with the head of the “Mission of Observers from the CIS” Sergei Lebedev,

“We wanted to give people a holiday, and they really responded.”

On Monday, August 10, at least one person has already died on this damn holiday. The Ministry of Internal Affairs stated that a person supposedly exploded an explosive device in his hands, which he himself brought.

I was on this square near the Pushkinskaya metro station, at the intersection of Pushkin Avenue and Pritetskiy Street, just that evening and, apparently, in the minutes when trouble happened.

Back at 22.27, it was completely calm in the square, thousands of three gathered there-maybe five thousand-people: they put “I want change”, made a selfie, waving the forbidden pre-Soviet red-white flag, danced ...

And at 22.30 they moved to the “astronauts” who appeared due to the rise of the road-without saying anything, even presenting any “legal requirements of police officers”: they simply threw expensive light-shum grenades, leading fear on citizens (although someone began to throw fences on the road, roll out the theatrical posters and build the barricades) and scattering them with these fragments) The money that get so difficult on asphalt is so difficult.

Not even money - penny. 200 dollars - the average salary of teachers, who, as usual, set the task to count everything correctly in the areas located, as usual, in schools.

And there were enough respondents: there were still several dozen islands of Freedom, on which Tikhanovskaya scored in the region of 80%in the region of 80%, and Lukashenko, and almost 6 thousand were gained around the country.

But try to talk with a pro-government “observer” (there were almost no independent sites-due to the danger of coronavirus, to whom they are so subject to) or girls-students who were driven out for official “eczitpols” ...

The “Eczitpulshchika” Natalya, an economist, was sitting at the entrance to one of the polling stations in Minsk with such an expression of suffering and boredom on her face that I asked her why she didn’t interview anyone when people come out of the site.

"We have our own specifics of work",

-Natalya smiled embarrassedly, and then somehow gradually told everything that she was thinking about the wise structure of the Belarusian economy. And about the president. The DJ woman in the same area, in which I quietly asked how she relates to “colleagues”, who set “I want change”, said that also for changes and freedom. When asked whether to put the same song here today, she answered resentfully:

"Are you a provocateur?"

In the 43rd section, where, surrounded by non-thermal journalists, the soft opposition oppositionist Anna Kanopatskaya voted by the authorities voted, Alexander Serdyukova, the violinist of the Belarusian State Philharmonic, tried to play these elections according to the rules.

But Alexander, who recorded in independent observers, was not allowed to be well -played, the played team of the polling station 43.

She had to find a place on a bench 50 meters from the entrance to school. She sat steadfastly all the days-from Tuesday (when for some reason a preliminary vote began, on which the turnout “amounted” as much as 41.7%) until Sunday (which disciplined Belarusians would have been enough for honest elections.) Alexandra had a good sense of humor **.

“What,” I say, “will you do right after the election?” - “I will meet with friends, then we take a walk along the streets of our beloved city, around the neighborhood ...” - “You can walk around the neighborhood tomorrow?” “Yes,” she laughs. - In general, I recently really like to walk along the streets of my beloved city. In the vicinity ... especially with the team. "

The main thing is not to “in the surroundings”, yes.

And so-why, really, do not take a walk if someone was too sitting?

And good would sit in fairness. No, I don’t mean anything like that, although Nikolai Kozlov, the head of the United Civil Party, the former opera (who also became a Tikhanovskaya proxy in these elections), and called this power “organized gang” in an interview with the “new”.

And President Alexander Grigoryevich Lukashenko himself the day after the election made a wonderful reservation about the Tikhanovskaya team: "They are not worth anything to do some repression against them."

And if they stand?

In the meantime, Tikhanovskaya is forced to hide in Lithuania, and the repression continues - on the streets of Belarusian cities.

• Special correspondents of Novaya Gazeta,
  *Minsk *

• The name was changed by decision of the editorial office.

** Her (by the way of solidarity), like many other independent observers, these days were “fed” by local grandmothers - they will bring water, then sweets ...