“Broadcasting rights were bought even on Mars”

The country's main hockey player again said a stupid thing.

The international Christmas amateur ice hockey tournament started in Minsk on January 3. However, Lukashenka's team has a number of professional players.

But it's not a surprise: it's always been like that. He cannot win in an honest struggle.

What came as a surprise was Lukashenka's speech at the opening:

“We hear more and more often that people ask about extra tickets at work. It is worth respect. It is what the international tournament was created to achieve.”

Taking into account the fact that people have to attend the matches on a mandatory basis due to the instructions sent by the local authorities to plants and educational institutions obliging them to give the necessary number of spectators, the statement by the head of state provoked a storm of sarcasm on the Internet, Salidarnasts reports.

There are readers' comments from the website Goals.by:

Chapakabara: “About 30 people asked me about tickets on my way home. I'll put a “No” sign on my back tomorrow.”

boldizhar05: “Aliaksandr, when were you in the street for the last time? Not in your village with ten body guards, snipers and others, but in an ordinary street among ordinary people, alone? How many decades ago was it?

BiancoBlu: “Broadcasting rights were bought even on Mars.”

Predator: “Two-room flat in Homel, exchange for a ticket for the final.”