Ideology workers revived and komsolets got privileges :: Charter'97 :: News

“We need to agitate, so that “morons” will not come to power”, said Alyaksandar Lukashenka at the discussion of the ideology law draft. The Belarusians have been creating their ideology for half a year already. A lot of money has been donated – the Academy of Sciences got more than $2 million to work out country’s ideological program, writes “Komsomolskaya Pravda”.

At the time it is being created spontaneously. Enterprises, for example, have already got positions of ideology workers. Their tasks are “to explain internal and foreign politics of the state, to provide timely reaction to critics in mass media, and to cooperate with the law machinery.”

The Belarusian komsomolets have got even further in creation of ideology. They function as the Belarusian Republican Youth Union. Every newcomer gets a booklet with a list of discounts. There are discounts for 2-100% for everything: to buy a cellular, cosmetics, clothes, etc. Even, forgive us God, for burials. It is no wonder that even those who are out of age enroll in komsomol: teachers, headmasters’ assistants, and senior sales persons.