Lukashenka fears his nation
- 9.03.2010, 11:41
Dwellers of Vorsha are still coming to their senses after Alyaksandr Lukashenka’s Friday’s visit to the local flax processing business.
For the entire day several micro districts were cut off from the central part of the city, hundreds of people were not able to get home or at work on time, and hunters were deprived of their guns for some time, Radio Svaboda informs.
A day before Lukashenka’s inspection policemen and people in mufti were pulled in to major enterprises of the region. As said by the former worker of the flax processing business, Syarhei Kaspyarovich, owners of registered guns were the first who were under surveillance of Lukashenka’s security service:
“A few days before the visit sporting guns were seized from people. A have a friend, he is hunting for 37 years, everybody in town knows him, and even his gun was seized. It was a “preventive measurer”, and only because he lives in Tekstilshchyki Avenue, which is neighboring to the Palace of Culture of the flax processing business. Probably it is a dangerous proximity. The gun hasn’t been returned yet, he does not even know when he is to expect it back,” Vorsha’s dweller believes.
Kaspyarovich also said that to get from one part of the town to another on time was impossible. Those who live near the flax processing business, were left almost in blockade.
“Policemen were everywhere. The district of flax processing business, from the square to dwelling houses, was especially thickly occupied by law-enforcers. This square was literally a zone where movement was prohibited: no one could walk or drive,” Kaspyarovich said,
During the day Tatyana Krutsko didn’t have an opportunity to get home which is in Tekstsilshchyki Avenue. There are no roundabout ways in this route. As said by her, even the bridge across the Dnieper River, through which one can get to the residential area from the factory, was closed.
“The bridge to the microdistrict was blocked completely: traffic was totally paralyzed, we couldn’t move. Cars were standing, and then had to go around through another part of the city, which is about 10 kilometres or more. The square was blocked as well, I could not get home, from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Traffic policemen and police were standing there, and made everyone go back, not allowing anyone to pass, ignoring any persuasion,” the woman said.
As said by Syarhei Kaspyarovich, Lukashenka’s walk through the flax processing business could not be called adequate. For instance, he didn’t visit the shop of preprocessing of flax where people work in the conditions of the Stone Age.
“It is a so-called first stage were the raw material is turned into sacking. One cannot imagine what is going on there. Nothing is seen there because of dust! And people have to work there in inhuman conditions…” the worker said.
By the way, any visit by Alyaksandr Lukashenka to organizations in the capital and to enterprises in the regions is accompanied by the state of excessive nervousness. Though Alyaksandr Lukashenka has been calling himself “a people’s president” for more than a dozen years, the degree of discomfort from extraordinary measures is surprising: as one of Vorsha dwellers said, “What kind of love it is when one fears one’s nation so much…”