Worker: Previously bandits were engaged in racketeering, and now it’s Lukashenka

A reader is indignant at what is going on in the country, and reminds that none of the countries of the world lived well under a dictatorship.

The editorial office of charter97.org received a letter from Uladzimir, a worker of one of the Belarusian plants.

“I work at one of the plants as a common worker, and even I understand that there are corruption problems in the country. The treasury is empty, as it happens in all dictatorship like ours. None of the countries with a dictatorial regime offered good life for its people,” he writes.

The reader is worried as people are not able to pay all taxes and do not buy Belarusian goods.

“Previously it had been gangsters who were engaged in racketeering. They were liquidated, and not tax inspection and police are doing the same. Lukashenka keeps imposing new taxes, and businessmen have to close business because of that. But in addition to the taxes, they have to make repair works in executive committees, give money for other needs of officials. Otherwise enterprises are closed, and property seized. Lukashenka has signed lots of decrees and orders, and now tax inspection is charged with that in the run-up to the election. People and families of people who disagree with Lukashenka are threatened openly. Unemployment in the country is growing, the quality of our goods is low, and prices are high, so no one needs them.

People who had lost jobs are paid 10$ of allowance, utilities bills are 50$, and constantly growing. And Lukashenka charges people that they do not want to work, while many people do not have a place to work. An average salary across the country is growing: first officials and chief executives received 20 mln, then 50, and now 80 mln, while workers from 2 to 4 million, and their wages are not growing. It’s absurd for chief executives of loss-making plants to have such salaries! We have a huge army of officials and policemen: twice as many as the country could afford to support. Policemen do not perform their duties, they have created additional posts according "one contact" principle, but in reality one have to visit even more officials and institutions. The former head of the National Bank Prakapovich assured us the country is stable – and on the next day the dollar exchange rate and prices in the shops grew fourfold, and Lukashenka has the entourage of as incompetent men as he is himself,” he writes.