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[00:00:00] of a smart approach, including you will uncover this topic, but I
[00:00:03] propose to start with such an important block, which is called
[00:00:07] "the way." As an architect, you will understand, this is the foundation,
[00:00:10] mhm, right now we are moving to this
[00:00:12] block.
[00:00:15] Nikolai Nikolaevich, today your knowledge, your experience, your ideas
[00:00:18] are implemented not only in Belarus, but in Russia, in Kazakhstan.
[00:00:21] A unique destiny from the point of view that, in general, even the paths
[00:00:25] in architecture could have been different for you, I mean even
[00:00:28] geographical ones, you... became the youngest architect of the city
[00:00:31] of Minsk in your time, yes you had the opportunity to generally stay in
[00:00:35] Minsk, but you chose Brest, and that is, you returned
[00:00:38] to your native Brest, we remember that you are a resident of Brest in the third
[00:00:42] generation already, well what was that, because everyone always strives for
[00:00:46] Minsk somehow, yes everyone thinks that Minsk is
[00:00:49] the peak of a career, but you acted differently, this is also
[00:00:53] the uniqueness of your choice, you know, probably, well, how
[00:00:56] it turned out, a good theoretical base was formed.
[00:00:59] That is, working at the Belgorodstroi Institute allowed me to have
[00:01:02] an idea of modern trends in urban planning, in urbanism,
[00:01:06] and I assumed that working in Minsk
[00:01:10] would allow me to quickly implement some approaches, modern
[00:01:13] trends, but after working in
[00:01:17] the city, I realized
[00:01:20] that in a small city or in
[00:01:23] a regional center, in my hometown, to implement my ideas, approaches, it would be not
[00:01:27] that... easier, you see, a strong connection is very important, the mayor
[00:01:31] of the city and the chief architect,
[00:01:34] and therefore, when the proposal came
[00:01:38] from the mayor of Brest to come to Brest as a single team
[00:01:42] to work on the fact that the city is preparing for its millennium,
[00:01:45] in general, there was such a carte blanche to
[00:01:49] try to implement those ideas that
[00:01:53] exist, using Brest as an example, I
[00:01:57] took advantage of this opportunity and returned to my hometown. If
[00:02:00] you even look today at approaches, well, in the same
[00:02:03] Europe, not all Germans seek to move to
[00:02:07] Berlin to live, yes, there are many cities, there are
[00:02:10] Dresden, there are Leipzig and so on and
[00:02:13] so forth, which have some kind of their own feature, their own
[00:02:17] trick, that is, be it in Dresden, the Dresden
[00:02:20] Gallery or Oktoberfest, and what is our problem
[00:02:23] today, it's that Minsk, like a magnet, pulls all
[00:02:27] resources from the republic. Small
[00:02:30] towns, villages are being built, the number of
[00:02:34] residents is decreasing, regional centers are collecting them, from regional centers everyone goes to
[00:02:37] the capital, but you have a solution, and
[00:02:41] it was announced, yes, the topic is that Minsk is not made of rubber, this is
[00:02:44] true, even the head of state said that it's enough to inflate
[00:02:48] Minsk, therefore the topic of the Minsk agglomeration
[00:02:51] of satellite cities appeared, so today we are actively talking
[00:02:55] about the need to develop identity, branding,
[00:02:58] and rethinking.
[00:04:00] work on the Smart approach system, and
[00:04:03] moreover, it formed the basis of China's state program,
[00:04:07] at our level, something could certainly also
[00:04:10] be done, we also, of course, have the topic of smart cities,
[00:04:13] a state program for the development of smart cities, much
[00:04:16] has been done at different levels, but sometimes I joke,
[00:04:20] I say, which city is smarter, let's compare, so,
[00:04:24] what, Kobrin or Pinsk, so, Minsk or
[00:04:27] Grodno, how will we compare? Which city
[00:04:30] is smarter, where there are more smart technologies, smart services, how many smart
[00:04:34] gadgets are needed, yes, to say that the city has become smart,
[00:04:38] or there are other criteria, and the idea of a smart city
[00:04:41] is not to stuff the city with these gadgets,
[00:04:44] these gadgets will already be watching you,
[00:04:48] it's about having feedback from the city's residents, smart
[00:04:51] technologies are not equal to a smart city,
[00:04:55] feedback, rather, I consider this a more important
[00:04:58] component, because I think,
[00:05:12] a slightly different path, before the start
[00:05:16] of design, we hung in the city's info center two
[00:05:19] maps, with green color the places that need to be preserved, with red
[00:05:22] color the places that need to be corrected, and this
[00:05:26] was, in general, such a marker for the city hall, for
[00:05:29] the city administration, to see in what priority the
[00:05:33] urban development policy should be arranged,
[00:05:35] and local residents began to say that we want more
[00:05:39] bike paths, we want this to be a green city, we...
[00:06:12] the author of this scientific work, I won't hesitate to say it, quite
[00:06:15] weighty, and this is the strategy Brest, the city
[00:06:18] Garden. Why exactly Brest, why, what were its
[00:06:22] indications to become a garden city? This is probably
[00:06:26] the only, or very rare city in Belarus that
[00:06:30] was moved to a new location. During the construction of the fortress, the thousand-year-old
[00:06:34] city in the middle of the 19th century was moved one and a half kilometers
[00:06:38] to the east, and a block system was formed by military engineers.
[00:06:41] квартальная.
[00:06:55] the ideal city, which was developed in England
[00:06:59] at the end of the 19th century, that is, 50 years later
[00:07:03] than Brest, the same center, park, today it is a fortress
[00:07:06] and radial block development with
[00:07:09] a comfortable scale, so it's like this: this inspired the theme
[00:07:13] of a garden city, this is, of course, not the same garden city in
[00:07:17] the understanding of the Middle Ages or the 19th century, it is a garden city
[00:07:21] in the modern understanding at a new turn, well, it turns out that
[00:07:25] in general the Mukhavets River becomes such a main
[00:07:28] superstar of this project, a place of attraction, yes,
[00:07:32] the coastal area is being transformed, just last
[00:07:36] month a new beach area was opened, that is,
[00:07:39] these elements appear...
[00:08:42] The service system was built quite competently,
[00:08:46] and the accessibility radii were, well, correctly selected within walking
[00:08:50] distance, schools, kindergartens, clinics,
[00:08:53] shops, today it is only necessary to simply give
[00:08:56] polish and comfort, quality to this environment,
[00:09:00] which we inherited, well, everything new that is built,
[00:09:03] to form in a new quality, how did you
[00:09:06] feel that Brest could be made into a brand,
[00:09:09] well, you know, there are still prerequisites, returning
[00:09:13] to Brest, you feel a comfortable environment,
[00:09:17] large-scale development of the historical center, there is
[00:09:20] a river, a lot of greenery, boulevards,
[00:09:23] you arrive there in Sochi or Odessa, yes, there is some kind of
[00:09:27] resort message, and we
[00:09:30] analyzed this concept of the southern capital, that
[00:09:34] Brest is located in the same climatic zone as Prague, that
[00:09:38] is, well, practically Southern Europe,
[00:09:42] and if you look at the vegetation, we have very, well,
[00:09:45] the vegetation is quite meager, we have very little
[00:09:48] vertical landscaping, the same ivy, there wisteria,
[00:09:51] there, so, Virginia creeper, a lot
[00:09:54] of plants that could be a symbol of the city, like a chestnut, for
[00:09:58] Brest, there is a medal, so, a thousand years of Brest,
[00:10:02] the symbol, the logo, so, it's a chestnut leaf,
[00:10:05] mhm, for example, the embankment could have been decorated, and we
[00:10:09] have already started decorating it with Crimean pines, these are pines
[00:10:12] with large needles, or, for example, we planted an alley of
[00:10:16] Magnolias, where else in Belarus is there an alley of Magnolias or an alley
[00:10:19] of plane trees, plane trees are generally somewhere, it seems, somewhere in Italy,
[00:10:23] but they grow here. With these shaggy cones,
[00:10:27] so, with bare bark, a whole
[00:10:30] alley, there are forty-year-old trees in the city,
[00:10:34] so you can use these exotics, these
[00:10:37] plants to form, uh, this brand of the southern
[00:10:41] region, well, and moreover, naturally, following the brand,
[00:10:44] following the city, the economy naturally catches up, a city cannot exist
[00:10:48] without an economy, architects also learn this, but
[00:10:52] if we speculate, you as an author, yes, and as...
[00:11:25] sites that will be interesting for the developer, of course,
[00:11:29] the more correctly we formulate the design brief
[00:11:31] or the urban planning passport, the more
[00:11:35] accurately we will hit the auction theme or the
[00:11:39] developer's theme. For example, the formation of a new
[00:11:43] city skyline along Warsaw Highway,
[00:11:46] when we had formed in the Soviet period the entrance
[00:11:50] from the bridge, Shevchenko Boulevard, such
[00:11:53] gates, two buildings on both sides, which welcome, so,
[00:11:57] residents, we made, as it were, such a curtsy
[00:12:00] from the other side, from the southern part, also
[00:12:04] such gates in the form of a business center, in
[00:12:06] the form of a modern hotel, gradually
[00:12:09] such a development is being built which
[00:12:12] well, says that the city today has a modern
[00:12:16] look, in fact, a new modern avenue, besides
[00:12:19] the embankment, we realized that there are already very serious shifts in this, a city garden appeared,
[00:12:23] which is also, by the way, a very remarkable place, I think, for
[00:12:27] citizens and guests of Brest, and what else is now already in
[00:12:30] the process of implementation? You know, in every direction there have been some
[00:12:34] shifts, if we talk about the historical center,
[00:12:38] then, between the fortress and
[00:12:41] the city there was an esplanade territory, this is a territory that was not
[00:12:44] built up, in the Soviet period it formed
[00:12:47] an industrial zone,
[00:12:50] there was a river port, there is a power plant, there was
[00:12:53] transshipment, there were some warehouse territories, and so,
[00:12:57] today there is an active transformation of this territory into a public space,
[00:13:01] here the topic of renovation is also actively
[00:13:04] sounding here, in our former industrial territory today an embankment
[00:13:08] appears, a museum of locomotives appears there, public
[00:13:12] buildings are now being designed, we want to connect
[00:13:14] today the city center and the park zone with
[00:13:18] the fortress within walking distance, so that it would be a
[00:13:22] single network, further if we talk about...
[00:14:25] life, they were actively then introduced
[00:14:28] in cities, in Soviet cities,
[00:14:32] but I think the time has come when
[00:14:35] it's worth turning to
[00:14:37] people,
[00:14:40] I would really like to emphasize that you really have such
[00:14:44] a human-centered approach, there is generally a lot of vitality in the projects that
[00:14:47] you develop, it's clear that this
[00:14:51] slogan "everything for people," yes, can be slightly
[00:14:54] rethought. If we talk about micro-districts,
[00:14:58] even the sleeping areas, people would
[00:15:01] still want to talk about how in our area they don't call, but
[00:15:05] they do call, rephrasing the classic and so on, but nevertheless there is a demand
[00:15:08] for such a well-thought-out ecosystem, that I live in my area,
[00:15:12] here is my house, here is my shop, here I have a playground,
[00:15:16] parking, and some other things, maybe we'll analyze them with
[00:15:19] you using concrete examples, but if we talk about the initial
[00:15:23] Soviet period, this is... modernism - this is
[00:15:27] rigid functional zoning, home, work, home,
[00:15:30] uh, two places, so, a third
[00:15:34] appears, now we are talking about, yes, about a humane
[00:15:37] approach, when a third place appears, a public space,
[00:15:41] when there is a home, work, and there is a third place where we can
[00:15:44] relax or meet or after work, so
[00:15:48] do sports, so today's trends are not rigid
[00:15:51] functional zoning, but a mix of all territories, all zones, and
[00:15:55] not to make this monounction of this sleeping bag,
[00:15:59] of this sleeping micro-district, which also creates
[00:16:02] pendulum migration, so the idea of identity was
[00:16:06] proposed, each...
[00:17:07] we tried to play with the number of floors, to lower the number of floors, so that it
[00:17:11] would be a building of variable number of floors, and here
[00:17:14] also Brezhestroy, our house-building plant came
[00:17:17] forward and developed specialized
[00:17:20] series of corner sections, so that it would be possible to form block
[00:17:24] development and such city houses, single-entrance
[00:17:28] buildings, towers also, so that there was
[00:17:30] variability, mhm, and industrial
[00:17:33] housing construction has many advantages, but...
[00:18:07] This is a whole quest and they couldn't cope with this issue for a long time, and
[00:18:11] well, where did they start? They started building ramps, we had complaints,
[00:18:14] you know, from residents, that kids gather on the ramp
[00:18:18] of the first floor watching TV, you know, in the kitchen on the first
[00:18:22] floor,
[00:18:25] yes, it was just necessary to rework the sections to make, you know, an
[00:18:28] additional opportunity for the elevator to go half a floor
[00:18:32] lower to zero from, you know, with the entrance,
[00:18:36] we solved the problem here...
[00:19:08] You cannot take exact copies or tracings from
[00:19:12] examples, I don't know, from European or Asian ones, my
[00:19:16] approach is that we need to create more
[00:19:19] transport bypasses around the city, transport corridors, where
[00:19:23] you can quickly get from one place to another with
[00:19:26] noise barriers, such high-speed highways, and
[00:19:29] the city center, of course, should give priority to pedestrians,
[00:19:32] cyclists, but the idea is to get from one
[00:19:35] area to another through green.
[00:19:46] you leave your yard and drive to work through the park.
[00:19:50] Well, that's a great story, actually, and with a picturesque view. And I
[00:19:53] believe it's very important here, probably, to correct some programs
[00:19:57] that we have today in the Ministry of Architecture, Construction, when we
[00:20:01] measure our growth only by
[00:20:04] quantitative indicators, when we measure in square meters and kilometers.
[00:20:22] will these roads solve the problems of city connectivity,
[00:20:25] therefore today there are not enough qualitative criteria in
[00:20:28] evaluating
[00:20:29] the work
[00:20:32] of the city authorities, there are even indicators for our neighbors, yes,
[00:20:35] they work according to such a principle...
[00:20:50] Institutes of Happiness. Russia today also
[00:20:53] at an accelerated pace developed a matrix
[00:20:57] of qualitative indicators for urban areas, that is,
[00:21:00] six indicators vertically, six horizontally
[00:21:04] for different spaces, different indicators, both safety and
[00:21:07] comfort, there is landscaping, and it is possible
[00:21:10] to make an assessment for the city authorities not only in terms of
[00:21:14] the implementation of these square meters, how much better your city
[00:21:17] has become, because if the city becomes...
[00:21:28] we are very smoothly moving to the block called "ideas", here of course I cannot help but recall and start
[00:21:32] this block with your quote, that cities are generally
[00:21:35] like people, yes, they are all different and each must have its own
[00:21:39] highlight, and we are finally approaching your very
[00:21:42] responsible mission, which you now probably occupy all your not
[00:21:45] only working, but also free time, this is the development of small towns.
[00:21:49] Let's discuss Mikashevichi as an example, let's
[00:21:53] approach it unusually, what is the highlight of Mikashevichi? The
[00:21:56] year before last we held - Dozhinki in
[00:21:59] the city, and what makes
[00:22:03] Mikashevichi special is that it's a monotown, the city
[00:22:06] has a specialized enterprise, it's granite, which
[00:22:10] mines this large quarry next to the city,
[00:22:13] sized, imagine, a pit the size of a city, where there are waterfalls, so
[00:22:17] uh. separate excursions, tourists come, this is such an industrial
[00:22:21] tourism, to see, here we will meet them, we are waiting for them with
[00:22:24] an architectural solution, when the task was, for example, for Dozhinki to make
[00:22:28] a concept of the city, streets, what did we take as a basis,
[00:22:31] we took this granite stone, of which they have a lot,
[00:22:35] they, of course, are all tired of this granite, but when
[00:22:38] tourists come, they are interested to see, and we made
[00:22:41] small architectural forms, we made gabions, benches, further there
[00:22:45] construction equipment on so on the ends of buildings, this
[00:22:48] industrial, the industry of this city, it
[00:22:52] well, as if designates it, that
[00:22:55] this is a unique city, and this is not Kobrin, this
[00:22:58] is not Pinsk, this is Mikashevichi, they
[00:23:01] are recognizable, wherever you take a photo, so,
[00:23:05] значит,
[00:23:08] the residents and administration also initially didn't understand, they were tired of these
[00:23:11] stones, but when we did it, the theme
[00:23:15] was liked, we made a park, we made these ends of facades,
[00:23:18] we landscaped it.
[00:24:12] so that every city thinks about what makes it special, so, if we talk about Pinsk, it's historical buildings,
[00:24:15] a unique environment, a pedestrian street, and Pinsk is generally the capital
[00:24:19] of Polesie,
[00:24:50] between Luninets and Stolin, and today we are also
[00:24:53] discussing how this territory, where there used to be a ferry,
[00:24:57] a ferry crossing over the Pripyat, that it could be a point of
[00:25:00] attraction, where the administration of the reserve, where there can
[00:25:03] be eco-trails, where there can be farmsteads, such a, well,
[00:25:07] also a unique place, which will be interesting for tourists, well,
[00:25:10] and you really went further, this is not just us discussing
[00:25:13] with you, for our viewers, I explain, you really have now given
[00:25:17] an instruction to develop a design code for each?
[00:25:21] Yes, we waited a long time for when the cities
[00:25:24] themselves, so, would take the initiative, would intercept it, yes,
[00:25:27] would intercept it, but we realized that the city administrations are used
[00:25:31] to being told what to do, and we unobtrusively
[00:25:34] pointed it out, signed by the deputy governor,
[00:25:38] so, sent out letters that all
[00:25:40] cities should develop their own design code, submit it to
[00:25:44] the urban planning council, consider it by the beginning of
[00:25:47] next year, approve it, that is. a single
[00:25:50] concept for the city, the central part of the city, how
[00:25:54] advertising will be placed, what will be on the signs, what
[00:25:57] will be on, so, on the showcases, maybe some small architectural
[00:26:01] forms and...
[00:27:02] Yes, and even in Brest, when Russians come, they say: "It's great,
[00:27:05] we are ready to live here,
[00:27:08] rent housing, it's inexpensive here, it's comfortable
[00:27:11] to work, the Internet allows it, there are good people here, all
[00:27:14] conditions are here," and we, well, these are human resources, we can
[00:27:18] develop industry, 100% important,
[00:27:21] important element, and we can develop a creative
[00:27:25] economy and invite in this way, this is also
[00:27:28] a quality environment, it is a driver of urban development and a driver
[00:27:32] of economic development,
[00:27:34] underestimated.
[00:27:38] Well, what, in your opinion, somewhat hinders us from doing it fully?
[00:27:42] We talked about Pinsk, that's also an interesting story, yes. I believe that
[00:27:45] at the level of state policy, perhaps, more attention should be paid
[00:27:48] to urban planning and urbanism, and
[00:27:50] I will even give an example
[00:27:54] of the urban forum that took place in Baku, where
[00:27:57] 188 countries participated, Belarus included, by the way.
[00:28:01] Беларусь в том числе, кстати.
[00:29:03] public administration and so on, but the block of urban planning,
[00:29:06] urbanism, of course, should be there, probably, well, more
[00:29:09] serious and expanded, so that the head of the city administration
[00:29:13] would more clearly understand what urban planning documentation is, what
[00:29:17] regulations are, what a detailed plan is, what a strategy
[00:29:20] is, and how, in general, the interaction between
[00:29:24] the resident and the city administration is built, how
[00:29:27] to build this dialogue, because these are all such subtle
[00:29:30] settings, subtle...
[00:30:32] what is planned here, why it is necessary to densify
[00:30:36] the city, that it is not to its detriment, but that
[00:30:38] the mayor's task is to make the city
[00:30:41] effective, that this action has a certain meaning, I would even honestly say I would act
[00:30:45] without intermediaries, I would say that it is exactly what, you know, there is a meme that says, it
[00:30:49] is necessary for your mom, your dad, you, in general, urban planning is necessary for everyone, it's like
[00:30:53] about a doctor, you don't sometimes discuss whether it is worth doing
[00:30:57] an operation with a doctor or not, he says we need to cut,
[00:31:01] надо резать,
[00:31:13] And generally, what risks does an architect take? This name, reputation, of course,
[00:31:17] is at stake, this is important to you, that somewhere under the project
[00:31:20] it says Nikolai Vlasyuk, just like that, so that you know, not to fall flat on your face, of course, in
[00:31:24] your hometown, this reputational
[00:31:27] component is very important, and there are different approaches in the world,
[00:31:31] as it were, the Soviet approach was that the chief architect of the city,
[00:31:35] he could cross out a project that was brought to him and
[00:31:38] say: "Here you need to draw a different facade, I don't
[00:31:41] like it," his subjective opinion could...
[00:31:45] prevail, let's see how it was, for example, there, I don't know, in the same
[00:31:48] Europe, imagine that Sir Norman Foster comes to
[00:31:52] the chief architect there of London, with
[00:31:55] his, so, there, uh, building in the form of a gherkin
[00:31:58] or there with some exclusive interesting architecture,
[00:32:02] and the chief architect tells him, "You know what, I don't like the window spacing
[00:32:05] you have drawn here," or different materials, this is a completely
[00:32:08] different story, here the architect himself
[00:32:11] is responsible, the one who designs the volume architect. The
[00:32:15] volume architect, he is responsible
[00:32:19] with his reputation, his name for what he designs, in principle for Belarus this
[00:32:23] is a possible option, and today we are at such a transitional
[00:32:26] stage, either we will move to the fact that author's
[00:32:29] architecture and author's intent will be responsible
[00:32:32] for the one who designs, then I vote
[00:32:36] with both hands for us to write
[00:32:38] the authorship of the architect who designed this
[00:32:41] building, we will not have faceless buildings, because a rare
[00:34:15] plan, and it is clear and publicly available, it is in open
[00:34:18] access, so most likely,
[00:34:21] we need to take all the best, identify
[00:34:24] the potential of our small towns, our regional centers, in order
[00:34:28] for each of our cities to have its own peculiarities, to be
[00:34:31] comfortable and attractive. Here's a question that came to my mind, imagine,
[00:34:35] it's clear that you have something to work on every day, but then the year
[00:34:39] 2050 comes, when we understand that this strategy,
[00:34:42] yes, or rather, the concept developed
[00:34:45] by you, has been implemented, God grant, so it will be, you
[00:34:48] walk, for example, along Sovetskaya Street, Brest,
[00:34:52] what do you feel at that moment? And this is in
[00:34:56] the vision, the strategy has a vision, it is described in principle quite in detail
[00:35:00] what I feel when I walk around the city
[00:35:03] in 30 years, I walk around
[00:35:06] a comfortable city, where the city is pedestrian, where there are many
[00:35:10] terraces, where there is fresh air, where there is the smell
[00:35:13] of phytoncides, so... from coniferous trees that
[00:35:17] grow in this city, people do sports,
[00:35:20] people fewer clinics, people more
[00:35:23] running, riding bicycles,
[00:35:27] here there is an opportunity, if we talk about
[00:35:30] a creative city - it's a city that gives people
[00:35:33] the opportunity to develop and be
[00:35:35] needed, there are some separate topics, there are growth points,
[00:35:39] economy, there is a green framework, residential quarters, we can
[00:35:43] go into details, but in... in general, these are cities
[00:35:47] that help residents
[00:35:49] realize their potential, have this vital potential, you are absolutely right,
[00:35:53] cities where you want to live, and you know, on July 28th,
[00:35:56] Brest had another birthday, we also congratulate you on
[00:36:00] that, because you have a direct connection, as a Brest resident in the third generation,
[00:36:03] a representative of a very famous architectural dynasty, allow us to
[00:36:07] congratulate you, well, to wish that this
[00:36:10] beautiful, not a myth, this very
[00:36:13] project will be fully implemented, so that you
[00:36:16] will be satisfied, so that the author of this concept, well, and
[00:36:20] the residents too, but you know, if you are satisfied, then the residents will be too.
[00:36:24] satisfied, thank you very much for this conversation. We thank you, we wish
[00:36:28] you success in your difficult but very important work.
[00:36:31] Thank you, thank you. Today we made sure that a modern city is not
[00:36:35] just square meters, it is a living organism, where a smart approach turns
[00:36:39] technologies into comfort, and the concept of a garden city protects
[00:36:42] our ecology. But the main thing is balance, which is impossible
[00:36:46] without a person. It is the creative energy of residents that turns modern
[00:36:49] spaces into centers of creative economies that move
[00:36:53] our cities forward. Design your future wisely
[00:36:56] and see you on air.
[00:37:29] worked as director of the auxiliary boarding school for 13
[00:37:33] years, here I understood
[00:37:36] a lot, as a leader, as
[00:37:38] a person, and how
[00:37:41] important it is to have a good,
[00:37:44] able-bodied team, and
[00:37:47] it's good that
[00:37:51] based on what you created over a certain
[00:41:02] expand the powers of its special services. The essence
[00:41:05] of the legislative changes: German special services want to be allowed
[00:41:09] to recruit children, in essence, to issue a license to kill. All
[00:41:12] this is justified, of course, by the threat from the Russians, who,
[00:41:16] as is known, are not going to attack. German
[00:41:19] special services will be able, for example, to legally and purposefully
[00:41:22] spread disinformation or disrupt operations.
[00:41:26] not only conduct reconnaissance, but
[00:41:32] intervene in cases of special threats, especially in
[00:41:35] cyberspace. In case of threats requiring
[00:41:38] significant surveillance, special services will be allowed
[00:41:41] to access IT systems, and the use
[00:41:44] of state Trojan programs for online searches
[00:41:47] and monitoring telecommunications at the source will be newly
[00:41:51] regulated. In case of a specific threat, the BND allows expanded
[00:41:55] intelligence measures against a foreign power, essentially issuing
[00:41:59] a license to kill. Examples of such measures include sabotage at
[00:42:03] Russian drone production facilities, where BND
[00:42:06] agents may be given the right to resort to lethal means.
[00:42:10] Tolerance, restraint, and compliance are regarded by our
[00:42:13] opponents as weakness, - said the head of the BND, Jäger, to the
[00:42:17] deputies. He implied intolerance.
[00:42:20] German special services also want to be allowed to use
[00:42:24] even sixteen-year-old teenagers as paid informants. It became
[00:42:27] known a couple of years ago that Germany is preparing children for
[00:42:31] intelligence and war. It was written then in a Spanish newspaper
[00:42:34] that the younger generation of Germans would be attracted to serve
[00:42:37] in the BND, noting that the agency has roots
[00:42:41] and therefore the BND finds it difficult to recruit effective, educated
[00:42:44] young people into its ranks. The same article quotes the
[00:42:48] Minister of Education as saying that German youth
[00:42:51] should be better prepared for the possibility of war. Other EU
[00:42:55] countries, the publication writes, have good experience in conducting
[00:42:58] such classes, and the authorities of the Federal Republic of Germany want a greater
[00:43:02] military presence in schools. In German cities, posters began to appear:
[00:43:06] "We are looking for terrorists, find them with us, we are looking for
[00:43:10] spies." and so on, and, of course, constant calls to the youth of EU
[00:43:14] countries to prepare for war to preserve
[00:43:16] peace on the continent. This is how the fascists acted
[00:43:20] in the Great Patriotic War, they used children as weapons. For example,
[00:43:23] they made saboteurs out of Soviet children. In the declassified FSB
[00:43:27] archives there is a lot of information about how the Nazis prepared the
[00:43:30] same homeless children for intelligence and sabotage behind the lines of the
[00:43:33] Red Army. For this purpose, even seven-year-old children were used.
[00:43:37] German special services created intelligence schools in
[00:43:40] occupied territories disguised as orphanages in Germany. In a memo dated
[00:43:44] December 25, 1941, the head of the special department
[00:43:47] of the Southwestern Front, Selivanovsky, reported to Deputy People's Commissar
[00:43:51] of Internal Affairs of the USSR, Abakumov, about two identified schools
[00:43:54] for underage scouts. They were organized by German
[00:43:57] intelligence in Bobruisk and the village of Protopopovka, Kharkov
[00:44:01] region. In the area where units of the thirty-fourth cavalry division
[00:44:04] were located, in early December 1941, military counterintelligence
[00:44:08] officers detained three
[00:44:40] children. The nine-year-old was taught reconnaissance work, taught
[00:44:43] to draw a plan of the location of firing points, headquarters, guns,
[00:44:46] tanks, machine guns, vehicles, cavalry, taught topography,
[00:44:50] parachuting, handling weapons, grenades, mining railway
[00:44:54] lines, as in other schools for underage scouts, as the
[00:44:57] arrested revealed, their task was to blow up railways, for
[00:45:00] which the saboteurs were supplied with explosives of a special composition
[00:45:03] externally similar to pieces of coal. The fate of
[00:45:07] children, as declassified documents show, did not
[00:45:10] interest the fascists, "Throw out 100 agents, let two of them
[00:45:14] complete the task, and that's good," said
[00:45:16] the fascists. Now again the Germans are essentially following
[00:45:19] the same path. Do you also have the feeling that the German
[00:45:23] government cares less and less about the rights and freedoms of even its own
[00:45:26] citizens? The return of the Gestapo to modern Germany seems to be only
[00:45:30] a matter
[00:45:31] of time.
[00:48:27] The Middle East is ablaze again,
[00:48:30] our country is prospering and we will soon defeat Iran, we will defeat
[00:48:34] them any day now and life will be even better.
[00:48:37] Americans continue to relentlessly turn war into
[00:48:40] a business enterprise, in which the main profit must
[00:48:43] exceed costs. In Germany, a scandal is brewing that could
[00:48:47] overturn the perception of the country as a bastion of civil
[00:48:51] liberties.
[00:49:05] and digital platforms will be obliged to cooperate with intelligence under threat of multi-million dollar fines. In
[00:49:08] the EU, a digital revolution is brewing, which could forever
[00:49:12] change the European Internet. Today's
[00:49:15] European Union, which for decades taught the world about human rights and
[00:49:18] the inviolability of private life, is building
[00:49:21] an instruction for total surveillance with enviable methodicalness. Every EU citizen
[00:49:25] will receive a digital wallet linked to biometrics, bank
[00:49:29] accounts, medical data, and of course,
[00:49:31] Internet activity. In practice, this means that any
[00:49:35] online step, from buying a ticket to a comment under a news story, will
[00:49:38] be linked to a specific person and stored in a single
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