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[00:00:00] We are
[00:00:03] in Belarus for the first time and we are very grateful to you for accepting our delegation to
[00:00:07] rest at your Zubronok health center.
[00:00:10] Here you have a huge green forest area, and
[00:00:14] also a rich history of the camp, we like it very
[00:00:17] much here, thank you very much.
[00:00:21] Our children were welcomed by the Zubronok center very warmly and
[00:00:24] kindly, we like it very much here, there are many
[00:00:27] sports activities and projects, cultural and
[00:00:31] recreational, your nature is very beautiful,
[00:00:34] picturesque and cozy. The best schoolchildren from China came to Belarus for vacation, and
[00:00:38] we hope for
[00:00:41] cooperation between our countries. In total, this summer
[00:00:44] about 100 schoolchildren from the Celestial Empire visited Belarusian Artek.
[00:00:48] Boys and girls get acquainted with our culture and traditions,
[00:00:51] this is exactly how true friendship is born, which
[00:00:55] then turns into all-weather cooperation.
[00:00:59] Thank you, Stas! This summer, the Zubronok center hosts more than
[00:01:02] 270 children from 10 countries, and
[00:01:06] even more news is on our website niupka. by. Stay tuned to the first channel.
[00:04:48] Iran is a very proud country that takes its
[00:04:52] information space very seriously. They allowed a Belarusian film
[00:04:55] crew in. This says a lot about their attitude towards
[00:04:58] our president, towards...
[00:05:42] their own, and the alternative is starvation and death.
[00:06:03] Hello, you are watching the program "Say, Don't Be Silent". In the studio, Svetlana Smolonskaya
[00:06:07] and Tatyana Shcherbina. And today we have a journalist from STV,
[00:06:11] Grigory Azarionok, as our guest. Grigory, good afternoon, hello. A journalist who
[00:06:15] needs no excessive introduction. I think that everyone else can add
[00:06:19] their own epithets. We meet
[00:06:22] in mid- August. This
[00:06:25] month has been quite significant in history on many occasions. Those who are older remember
[00:06:28] the events of
[00:06:32] 1991, when the so-called August putsch happened in
[00:06:35] the USSR. Just 29 years later, in August
[00:06:38] 2020, Belarus faced an attempted coup d'état.
[00:07:42] they reign, as they said in the 19th century, that is, he
[00:07:46] deals with current economic issues, political
[00:07:50] issues, military issues here now constantly from
[00:07:53] harvesting to the missile guidance system,
[00:07:56] so
[00:07:58] in this is his strength and advantage always over those who live by someone else's agenda, but
[00:08:02] nevertheless, nevertheless, as such a significant milestone, nevertheless,
[00:08:05] as an important stage of our state
[00:08:08] passing through these stormy events, when...
[00:10:12] as they say, went under the plinth, society became depoliticized, thank God, this
[00:10:16] is an inadequate, abnormal situation, when everyone imagines
[00:10:20] himself to be a foreign minister and an expert in foreign
[00:10:23] policy, and you wake him up at night and he will tell you what to do between Sudan and
[00:10:27] Oman. Depoliticization is precisely adequate, normal, when people
[00:10:30] go about their business, once in a while, every few years,
[00:10:34] making some political choice based on their own worldview
[00:10:38] goals. But as for worldview
[00:10:41] aspects, here, indeed, we need to work. We still have not
[00:10:45] eradicated this dull,
[00:10:47] slavish blind imitation, about which Griboedov said,
[00:10:51] "Lord, may God eradicate this spirit of dull slavery."
[00:14:16] Abkhazia, Ossetia, Karabakh, Chechnya, Donbass, all
[00:14:20] of this is still burning, exploding, being destroyed.
[00:14:23] When people ask me why I treat opponents of the government so cruelly, maybe
[00:14:27] it's time to forgive them, but their
[00:14:29] delusion, their Westernization,
[00:14:32] their, well, where they are leading is the death
[00:14:36] of millions of people, it's blood, after which our country will never
[00:14:39] recover. Therefore,
[00:14:43] this is my attitude. Uh-huh, well, lately more and more videos and comments
[00:14:46] are appearing on the Internet in which people
[00:14:50] living in Belarus, Belarusians, ask themselves, isn't it time
[00:14:53] to deprive them?
[00:15:25] on this topic, I just can't calm down, I need to urgently speak out,
[00:15:28] share my thoughts, what I think about all
[00:15:32] this. I, as a pure-blooded Belarusian, I am
[00:15:35] a patriot of my homeland, I...
[00:15:37] love my homeland, to be honest, I do not understand such people who leave
[00:15:41] their country, go somewhere else and cannot live peacefully, they
[00:15:44] spoil things, they do nasty things to their homeland,
[00:15:48] to their fellow countrymen, so if you do nasty things, then what kind of
[00:15:51] patriot are you, what kind of Belarusian are you? None. So
[00:15:54] if they are deprived, then they will do the right thing, it means there is a reason
[00:16:37] of life, our father always says this, when he, remember, told the Minister
[00:16:41] of Internal Affairs Ivan Kubrakov, a woman defended herself and, well, inflicted
[00:16:45] a fatal, so, wound on her husband, he says, why did you even arrest her, by
[00:16:48] law, as it were, of course, you have to arrest, but by justice, by
[00:16:52] truth, if she defended herself from a crazy rapist who beat her
[00:16:56] all the time, this is a very correct thing, the president felt it very much, he always
[00:16:59] tells judges and lawyers that everything should be from life, and not
[00:17:03] worship of the letter, this is what concerns the legal aspects, let's
[00:17:06] look morally. A simple person, workers recently
[00:17:10] received Geely from their father, people who brought a million
[00:17:14] tons of harvest to our homeland, who live honestly,
[00:17:18] who honestly raise children, who are the pride of our
[00:17:21] country, a working person, a peasant, he has the same
[00:17:25] color and the same form of passport as
[00:17:29] a scoundrel who calls for bombing our country, who
[00:17:32] calls for and actively does everything to impose sanctions, I'm not talking about the color
[00:17:36] but about... its equal significance
[00:17:40] before the law and before society and before the state, equal
[00:17:43] rights, equal responsibilities and so on, yes, they say that it is possible
[00:17:46] that if they are deprived, then we cannot apply our
[00:17:50] state measures to them, such as criminal cases and so on, yes, I think,
[00:17:53] nothing terrible, we had foreign citizens also sitting and also
[00:17:56] perfectly then exchanged and something else happened,
[00:18:00] so this is normal, I think it's not bad,
[00:18:03] so I am absolutely in favor of this initiative, I...
[00:18:07] I think that we have, well, probably not
[00:18:11] a title, but an order of honor, we have people awarded and
[00:18:14] they say that they are heroes of labor, we need to return the title enemy
[00:18:17] of the people, and the order of Judas again, yes, the order
[00:18:21] of Judas is an eternal story, nominally it exists, what
[00:18:24] should Grigory prepare us for now, so as not to oversleep
[00:18:28] 2030, which is generally already just around the corner, and do
[00:18:32] you notice that the enemy is not sleeping, right? They are already taking some
[00:18:35] steps, well, if you go to the trends there?
[00:19:07] such a powerful, stable thing, it all fell apart in a month, like a house of cards,
[00:19:11] because they were preparing, you relaxed, you bred
[00:19:14] corruption, you thought about well-being,
[00:19:18] Bashar's wife, beautiful, wonderful, educated in the West
[00:19:21] and he, a Western, so,
[00:19:24] dentist, I think, such a wonderful, intelligent person, and we want
[00:19:28] negotiations, and we want peace, and we want good, all the best,
[00:19:32] and they are preparing, they are preparing, so, they are gathering detachments, training,
[00:19:35] learning, then in a month it all falls apart, just as it
[00:19:39] was with the Soviet Union in 1991, with the Russian Empire in
[00:19:42] 1917. The war was going on,
[00:19:46] but the troops were outside the Russian Empire, and
[00:19:49] as it were, there were no catastrophes at the front, but everything collapsed inside
[00:19:53] the country, because the elite sold out,
[00:19:55] betrayed, because they wanted to go to the West or wanted some of their
[00:19:59] values and interests. In 1991,
[00:20:02] the elite betrayed. Now we need to carefully watch who is close
[00:20:06] to money. And who, for example, does not want
[00:20:09] teachers to settle in his residential area, in his residential
[00:20:13] quarter, because, you see, they paid
[00:20:16] for square meters for a view with swans,
[00:20:19] and something else. We need to look at all this carefully. The president
[00:20:23] constantly talks about this when addressing civil
[00:20:26] servants. He says: always remember where you came from, always remember who you were,
[00:20:30] and gives the example of Kamay, who was the head of the republic,
[00:20:34] a powerful man. Now, look, our man is modest.
[00:20:37] but he always supports us like this, and we will all become
[00:20:41] it one day, and we already are and never stopped being it,
[00:20:44] so we need to focus on this, the West
[00:20:47] is not society.
[00:21:20] means the multiplication of their assets, as they always
[00:21:22] did throughout history. How did they
[00:21:26] tempt Iran? The same way, negotiations,
[00:21:29] Obama conducted, everything was fine, wonderful,
[00:21:32] nuclear program, everyone met, and there was no one who would have wanted
[00:21:36] negotiations with Israel and the USA more than the murdered Ali
[00:21:40] Khamenei, there was no other person. We will probably talk
[00:21:43] about Iran today, but he was killed, then the country
[00:21:47] was bombed, destroyed. The West, this...
[00:21:58] it doesn't suit her that you would fit into her system somehow on
[00:22:02] some special rights, no, only destruction,
[00:22:05] only domination, so this battle will be eternal, uh-huh, well, we
[00:22:09] see now how in Russia on the eve of parliamentary elections,
[00:22:12] society is being stirred up, that is, what you just
[00:22:15] talked about, but what is the main lesson from Belarusian August?
[00:23:50] they will skin you alive, that there will be no beautiful, prosperous Russia
[00:23:54] of the nineties, now a new trend has started, you know, teenagers, teenagers
[00:23:57] suddenly like the nineties, they started filming to the song
[00:24:01] "Bound by One Chain", they started filming some mobsters,
[00:24:04] some kind of freedom, music and so on, well, this is a turn again,
[00:24:08] yes, young people are being pushed to
[00:24:11] some, they don't remember what
[00:24:15] destruction is, they don't even know, they didn't even witness it, they can't
[00:24:18] do it.
[00:27:02] there won't be, don't look at Ksenia Anatolyevna Sobchak, don't look
[00:27:06] at glossy magazines, you will have hard work, where you
[00:27:10] will earn your living,
[00:27:12] and that's normal, but then there are some things
[00:27:15] that allow you to be happy, it's love, it's
[00:27:19] family, it's homeland, it's
[00:27:23] self-awareness, two feelings, wonderfully close to us, in them the heart finds food, love for
[00:27:26] the native ashes, love for ancestral graves, we bear it based
[00:27:30] on will of God himself.
[00:28:56] the degradation of values. Do you believe that European
[00:29:00] civilization is indeed doomed to?
[00:33:15] that they will accept us somewhere, that they will
[00:33:17] recognize us as existing, as a sovereign
[00:33:21] state, as having the right to life. This system, the world
[00:33:25] system, they cannot recognize this. They have been saying
[00:33:28] since Roman times that only the hand of Rome,
[00:33:31] domination, absolute
[00:33:33] supremacy, this is what concerns them. Look, it would seem that they could have
[00:33:37] suffocated us with embraces, like in the 2010s,
[00:33:40] we recognize, some investments, everything
[00:33:43] is fine. All experienced marginals, everything
[00:33:46] is fine, with us gradually,
[00:33:48] gradually society, the management elite, everyone
[00:33:52] is already leaning towards that, everyone has
[00:33:55] traveled there, everyone has perhaps bought something there and so on, well,
[00:33:59] if you do this for another 15 years, then Belarus will fall to you
[00:34:02] like a ripe apple, no, they don't need this, because it would mean
[00:34:05] recognizing our subjectivity a little bit, only complete submission,
[00:34:09] only total destruction, that's
[00:34:12] when they will feel quite satisfied.
[00:35:15] proclaimed as their ideology. Borrell -
[00:35:18] the famous "jungle law" - this is an absolutely Nazi approach, this
[00:35:22] is an absolutely Nazi principle. They say: you can do whatever
[00:35:25] you want with Russians, and by Russians they also mean us. Kill girls
[00:35:29] in Starobelsk, destroy our
[00:35:32] bus with a drone, kill people
[00:35:35] in the border regions of Russia and in Donbass. They
[00:35:39] consider Ukrainians to be the same, so the fact that you are dying there
[00:35:42] doesn't particularly bother them either, on the contrary, it even pleases them. So they
[00:35:46] have already said it: you can do whatever you want with us, drive us into a barn and
[00:35:50] set it on fire, and all the human rights advocates will be,
[00:35:53] excuse me, well, that is, it turns out that we will always remain for them, no matter how
[00:35:57] good we are, we will still be natives to them, only also having
[00:36:00] the audacity to be born white, these are very important words,
[00:36:03] we are not just natives,
[00:36:06] we are a threat to them, because we are both Christians and
[00:36:10] white, but different, that is, a backup train on a
[00:36:14] backup track.
[00:36:27] you can put money at the forefront and profit at the forefront,
[00:36:31] they hate it terribly, for this they are ready to destroy,
[00:36:34] now, it would seem, we are already in ashes, we have already
[00:36:38] recognized their dominance, their social system,
[00:36:42] their economy and everything else in the world, and so on, but
[00:36:45] still, Russia, still, this did not start in 2022, but all these
[00:36:49] cancellations of athletes, all these sanctions, all
[00:36:53] these, the war in Georgia, which they
[00:36:56] provoked. So,
[00:36:59] yes, August too, the war in Chechnya, which they sponsored,
[00:37:03] already Yeltsin's Russia, which is lying
[00:37:06] under you, already a friend beat, and God bless America,
[00:37:10] finish them off, finish them off, destroy, we hate them,
[00:37:13] it doesn't matter, because there is always this alternative, which we
[00:37:17] talk about, our Belarusian system, our Belarusian president,
[00:37:21] who says that money does not define
[00:37:24] a person, but vital truth, and...
[00:37:27] "There is a sense of truth in the human heart," Lermontov said, and they hate
[00:37:30] it in itself, they cannot allow this, because
[00:37:34] sooner or later their peoples will say, "Maybe we should
[00:37:37] try that?" They will say this sooner or later, so the elite
[00:37:41] cannot allow this, so there will be. They said now,
[00:37:44] "strategic defeat of Russia," but that means the destruction of Russia.
[00:37:48] Grigory, well, perhaps we will not reveal a secret to you if we say that opponents
[00:37:52] are very closely following your work. In the spring of this
[00:37:55] year, when you...
[00:38:28] still they cry: come back, I'll forgive everything, that's why we have
[00:38:31] that, we have such an eternal eternal
[00:38:35] romance with them, eternal coming and going, ebb and flow, so alpha
[00:38:38] talk about the business trip, after the business trip
[00:38:42] a documentary film "Battle of Persia" was released,
[00:38:46] here's its beginning, let's watch.
[00:39:09] You called your team the only film crew from Europe
[00:39:13] in Iran, how did the Iranian authorities receive you,
[00:39:16] well, and was there any censorship on their part? Well, the only one because they
[00:39:20] only allowed us in. Iran is a very proud country that
[00:39:24] takes its information space very seriously, they...
[00:39:57] said they were very concerned, only the father expressed such a strong
[00:40:01] position, so we were accepted, yes, we were accepted in this beautiful, wonderful,
[00:40:05] huge, gigantic country, what is a metropolis of
[00:40:08] 17 million people, Tehran, it's impossible to describe
[00:40:12] or imagine, there was
[00:40:15] no censorship at all, the only censorship was
[00:40:19] kebabs, we were fed very delicious food, yes,
[00:40:22] that was the only type of censorship, in your film,
[00:40:26] Iran is shown as...
[00:40:57] are being built on the outskirts of Tehran, they are all
[00:41:00] divided into district numbers of Tehran, this will be the twenty-first,
[00:41:04] well, completely new, completely
[00:41:07] well-maintained, equipped, somewhat similar to Minsk's
[00:41:11] sleeping areas, for this
[00:41:13] region, this is new for all countries, not only for Iran, but
[00:41:17] for all countries, but here there is a constant modernization, this
[00:41:21] development, here they constantly think about people, well, and you continue
[00:41:24] to believe Israeli or American propaganda that here...
[00:46:10] core allows society to maintain internal unity, this
[00:46:13] internal cohesion, and to develop
[00:46:16] despite the isolation, which has been going on for
[00:46:20] decades, well, there is a lot to
[00:46:23] talk about, but the most important thing they also often talk about is
[00:46:27] justice, justice, which they
[00:46:31] strive for themselves. When Western
[00:46:34] propaganda talked about Iran, it said, "Look at
[00:46:37] how beautiful the girls are there," and so on, but that was...
[00:46:52] horror, fear, bearded men, that
[00:46:55] was one district, all the others were not just
[00:46:58] poor, but terribly poor.
[00:47:01] It was a state serving British
[00:47:05] Petroleum, which was simply a security security company
[00:47:09] for British Petroleum, which pumped out all the resources
[00:47:12] from there, and then the revolutionaries
[00:47:15] of Khomeini came, just like Castro came to Latin America, and then Chavez,
[00:47:19] they said, no, this is all national, this is all. Everything should
[00:47:22] belong to the people, this is all ours in common. This
[00:47:26] justice allows them to achieve gigantic
[00:47:30] results. Well, how many countries in the world have built their own automotive
[00:47:33] industry? Well, some might say they copied Western models,
[00:47:37] but they did it, they made their own cars. All of Iran drives its own
[00:47:40] cars. Here you go, so,
[00:47:44] some corrupt Switzerland cannot do this,
[00:47:47] some Finland with its Scandinavian
[00:47:50] socialism cannot do this.
[00:48:52] Europe was worth losing cheap Russian
[00:48:55] energy resources, already hundreds of thousands of jobs
[00:48:58] at car companies
[00:49:02] are closing, people are losing their jobs, companies are leaving
[00:49:06] Europe? Yes, absolutely, but I think this is not even sanctions, it's not even
[00:49:10] a restriction, not isolation, I think such a task was set
[00:49:13] when, after all, who cut off Europe from
[00:49:16] Russian energy carriers? Russia was not against it, Russia is probably
[00:49:20] ready to sell now. Let's take a short break,
[00:52:09] Azarionok, shaped the meanings of state
[00:52:13] journalism in the nineties, you are doing this
[00:52:16] in 2020. What is the fundamental difference
[00:52:20] between the challenges facing Belarus then and
[00:52:23] now? Well, I hardly form them, I think I'm trying to grasp the meanings that
[00:52:27] our president broadcasts to the world, to society, and this is
[00:52:31] a gigantic task, why? Because
[00:52:35] we still, probably,
[00:52:38] find it difficult to understand the path
[00:52:41] when, despite everything, when everything was already ordered, everything
[00:52:45] was already done and paid for, all the elite was already standing here and
[00:52:49] everything was divided, everything was decided behind the scenes, but suddenly one
[00:52:52] simple man, a simple man
[00:52:56] breaks the great plans of all these
[00:52:58] corporations, geopoliticians,
[00:53:01] oil magnates, so everything.
[00:53:35] in conditions of constant threats and severe pressure from opponents
[00:53:38] first of all, yes, what for you personally is the main
[00:53:42] internal source of faith in
[00:53:45] the righteousness of your cause?
[00:53:49] We live on our land,
[00:53:53] we are building our state with our
[00:53:56] faith, with our temples, no matter what confession they belong
[00:54:00] to, but these are ours,
[00:54:02] so we are building our own. society, we are building
[00:54:06] our own future, we have our own government, you know,
[00:54:09] sovereignty, many people like sovereignty, independence, there, in
[00:54:13] Ukraine they shouted about independence, eyes bulging, so, they sing a hymn,
[00:54:17] yes, they are not slaves, and we see it, yes, yes, so they are under the West so
[00:54:20] much that no vassalage
[00:54:23] dreamed of it, no khanate, slavery, no yoke dreamed of how they
[00:54:27] are under the West, that's why sovereignty is sovereign power, it's when
[00:54:31] the power here makes decisions, the decision-making center we know is in Minsk.
[00:55:09] your vacation, shaving your beard,
[00:55:13] coming to us from the forest, as always it was bright, to
[00:55:17] the point, sometimes harsh and even uncensored, but as it
[00:55:20] seemed to me, fair, and we see that
[00:55:24] despite the fact that 6 years have passed, Grigory has not deflated,
[00:55:27] has not disappeared anywhere, has not vanished, well, and as
[00:55:31] Alexander Grigorievich said, probably correctly, that if it were...
[00:59:32] The Editors' Club, Western vaccines are somehow
[00:59:35] correct, while Russian ones are not. All
[00:59:38] these vaccines were launched, let's say,
[00:59:41] into production and use almost
[00:59:44] immediately. We will still see the consequences. What
[00:59:47] happened with Covid is a story exactly about the preparation of the
[00:59:51] United States for possible biological warfare scenarios.
[00:59:55] Of course, any feed additives, any
[00:59:58] fertilizers, can be bought, but what will you
[01:00:01] buy from there along with feed additives,
[01:00:04] fertilizers, what virus will you bring here,
[01:00:07] whom will it be directed at, that's also a big question, there is
[01:00:11] colossal social Darwinism
[01:00:13] of the ruling classes in relation to ordinary people.
[01:00:47] Don't miss it on Belarus 24
[01:00:50] TV channel.