Hlybokaye District Executive Committee: Our people miss Lenin!
The repaired Hlybokaye Lenin will be accompanied by famous local inhabitants but employees of the District Executive Committee … cannot think of their names!
“Our Lenin is being repaired! He needed it like any other person does. People have their age. Monuments have it too. It will be repaired, renewed and it will stand again!”, – said chairperson of the ideology department of Hlybokaye District Executive Committee Mihail Charapkouski.
Rumours that the Lenin from Hlybokaye known for his cavalryman's stature, would be sent to the garbage heap of history appeared on the Internet the other day. However, the District Executive Committee has assured us that the monument will be repaired, painted bronze and returned to its place. They said that people missed it.
“The monument to Vladimir Lenin looks bad! It is necessary to remove it! However, as soon as it was been removed to be repaired, everyone started missing it!”
The only thing that is not clear is the place the Lenin from Hlybokaye will be returned to – will it be the old place in September 17 Square or will it be installed in the central square near the District Executive Committee?
Hlybokaye Lenin before “the repair works”.
If the second variant is not true, it may happen that the leader of the world proletariat will be standing next to Vaclau Lastouski. Let us remind you that the famous native of Hlybokaye District was an outstanding Belarusian historian who headed the Council of the Belarusian Democratic Republic. He would have hardly liked this vicinity.
We have not managed to find out whether employees of Hlybokaye District Executive Committee know who Lastouski is. They could not recall any names of famous fellow countrymen whose busts would appear in Hlybokaye. Nobody could recall any names either in the ideology department or in the department of culture – the Euroradio reporter was sent to check their website. They said that everything could be found there. It took about 30 minutes to find the names on the website.
However, local journalist Zmitser says that the authorities know very well who Vaclau Lastouski was.
“I think that they know it. The ideology department should know it as it is headed by a historian”.
Besides Lastouski’s bust, monuments to painter Yazep Drazdovich, founder of the Belarusian theatre Ihnat Buinitski, aircraft designer Pavel Suhi and a number of other people born in Hlybokaye will be installed there.
It will be possible to see the repaired monument to Lenin next to Vaclau Lastouski soon. The Belarusian Written Language Day will be marked on September 2.
