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[00:00:00] no authority of the United
[00:00:02] Nations, that authority, those problems that
[00:00:06] are now literally shaking
[00:00:09] the United Nations. We know what statements
[00:00:12] are made there and who is
[00:00:15] trying to run the agenda, who
[00:00:18] is running it, but it seems to me the more weight the SCO has,
[00:00:22] the more it will grow, the more the authority
[00:00:26] of the United Nations will strengthen, our president emphasized.
[00:02:02] The first informational
[00:02:05] together with the State Security Committee
[00:02:08] of Belarus present
[00:02:11] a project on the genocide of the Belarusian people
[00:02:14] during the Great Patriotic
[00:02:17] War. The sadist in the alphabetical
[00:02:21] list number one, who was declared
[00:02:25] wanted four times in the all-Union search. This
[00:02:29] was one of the bloody
[00:02:31] executioners, on whose account, according to the Supreme
[00:02:35] Court, there were more than 5,000 victims,
[00:02:38] burning villages and execution marches
[00:02:42] of the strangler, still remembered with shudders,
[00:02:45] Imenyevich, somewhere his shadow, they say,
[00:02:49] walks somewhere, probably here in this world. Spy
[00:02:52] skills, accomplice of the Nazis, agent
[00:02:56] of British intelligence. At the London trial.
[00:03:30] In the early nineties of the last century, on the front pages of tabloids, along with
[00:03:34] photos of Princess Diana, photos of a short
[00:03:37] gray-haired old man in glasses with thick lenses appear. This is Semyon
[00:03:41] Seraphimovich. This is the surname he took when he began living
[00:03:45] in the British Isles in 1947.
[00:03:48] Before that, his surname differed by only one letter -
[00:03:52] Seraphimovich. He was a cruel,
[00:03:56] unprincipled executioner who destroyed villages, destroyed.
[00:05:42] They tracked him down. He did everything so that his surname would not
[00:05:46] be mentioned in any voter lists, so that
[00:05:49] his surname would not be in any telephone
[00:05:52] directory. He did everything so that he would not
[00:05:56] be found. The quiet life of a carpenter, with trips to
[00:05:59] church once a week, continued for almost 50 years. But at the doorstep
[00:06:03] of the two-story house, journalists,
[00:06:07] British and Soviet, began to appear more and more often.
[00:06:11] They wanted to talk about peace, but at the word "peace"... The face
[00:06:14] of the calm pensioner suddenly became
[00:06:17] They rang the doorbell, and a tall, thin man opened it for me.
[00:06:20] He immediately became pale and said, "I don't know if he guessed or
[00:06:24] recognized me, but he immediately said, "You won't
[00:06:26] prove it. I watched what the Germans did, but I didn't
[00:06:30] shoot myself. Remember you'll regret it. Don't
[00:06:34] touch me, I'm not bothering anyone, I live quietly,
[00:06:37] peacefully." It was difficult to understand him. Seraphimovich's speech
[00:06:41] was a mixture of Belarusian.
[00:07:42] in the occupied territory of Belarus during the Great Patriotic War, Semyon
[00:07:46] Seraphimovich. He grew up in a large peasant
[00:07:49] family of middling means. Besides him, his parents had four more
[00:07:52] daughters. Seraphimovich married very early.
[00:07:56] His first son was born when he was 17 years old. This caused serious
[00:08:00] conflicts with his father. They arose over issues of managing the household
[00:08:04] and property rights. Semyon leaves the family, and his son
[00:08:07] is raised by his wife. When the boy was 8 months old, she
[00:08:11] died.
[00:08:20] A new life without obligations and responsibility to his son for
[00:08:24] Seraphimovich began with work at the mill, where his uncle,
[00:08:27] his mother's brother, arranged for him to work, first as a grain receiver,
[00:08:30] then as a manager. Soon Semyon married a second
[00:08:33] time, and he married, apparently,
[00:08:37] based on these goals of his, that is, he had a wife.
[00:08:40] only her father
[00:08:44] was prosperous, that is, he had his own farm, he also had his own
[00:08:48] mill, a fishing season, where they caught fish,
[00:08:51] including, as we say, today from the dining room,
[00:08:55] so he entered this prosperous family,
[00:08:58] the annexation of Western Belarus to Eastern Belarus, the arrival of Soviet power, was
[00:09:02] a blow to Seraphimovich's unfulfilled dreams.
[00:09:05] He did not want to work at the mill for labor-days. This hurt
[00:09:09] his pride. He was able to realize his ambitions as a leader
[00:09:13] during the Great Patriotic War. From the first days
[00:09:16] of the occupation of Belarus, Seraphimovich voluntarily joined the service of the
[00:09:19] Nazis. He was appointed commandant of the police garrison in
[00:09:23] the town of Yeremichi. Then, for impeccable
[00:09:26] service, he was transferred to Turets. He practically daily, with his
[00:09:30] subordinates, went out on operations to eliminate Komsomol members,
[00:09:33] communists, Soviet party activists, and families
[00:09:37] of partisans. He knew the local population perfectly, as he himself had lived
[00:09:40] in this area for a long time before the war.
[00:09:44] The building where the police were located in Turets has been preserved to this day, next
[00:09:48] to the church. A fundamental low-rise building with impressive
[00:09:52] walls and a rather atypical color for that
[00:09:54] time. Arrested people were kept in the basement.
[00:09:58] And on the bell tower of the ancient church, the policemen
[00:10:01] set up an observation post and installed
[00:10:04] a machine gun. And all the people said that he was a very cruel
[00:10:08] man. He himself was handsome, always rode a white horse.
[00:12:03] Another important aspect for Seraphimovich: killing
[00:12:06] people, including fellow villagers, was an opportunity to improve his material
[00:12:10] situation. It was very easy to get rich, which he did.
[00:12:14] According to witness testimonies, he had many gold
[00:12:17] items and expensive interior items at home. He proved
[00:12:20] his loyalty to the Nazis in the pogroms of villages,
[00:12:24] the extermination of innocent civilians, participation in punitive actions
[00:12:27] with other Nazi units, and, what is
[00:12:30] important, friendship with the commandant, the head
[00:12:34] of the gendarmerie. In early 1942, Seraphimovich headed
[00:12:37] the district police, which was located in Mir. This fact
[00:12:41] satisfied his pride. They feared him, which meant, in
[00:12:45] Seraphimovich's opinion, they respected him.
[00:12:48] He indulged his vanity by mocking those weaker than him,
[00:12:52] humiliating and beating them. He could just
[00:12:55] kill a person out of his own desire, perhaps a bad
[00:12:58] mood. Maybe in this way he raised his authority in the eyes
[00:13:02] of his subordinates. They hid from the blockade and sat on
[00:13:05] the bank, waiting for when, they said, they could
[00:13:09] go home. Then this Seraphimovich arrived, bathed
[00:13:13] in the water, came out of the water, so proud, self-confident, and
[00:13:17] beat two men to within an inch of their lives,
[00:13:20] then shot them. And why he killed them, is still
[00:13:24] unknown.
[00:14:25] They looted houses, shot people. In the winter
[00:14:29] of 1942, Seraphimovich arrived in our village of Krinichnoye
[00:14:32] on a sleigh drawn by horses with
[00:14:35] his executioners. They killed my father, Rubin
[00:14:38] Krinitsky, my mother, three sisters, a brother, and
[00:14:42] my five-year-old daughter. Along with them, they shot my uncle, Fabel
[00:14:46] Krinitsky, my aunt, their six
[00:14:49] grandchildren, my son-in-law, and my daughter-in-law. One of Seraphimovich's
[00:14:52] thugs liked the sweater sister, and
[00:14:56] he pulled this sweater, knitted by my mother, from her
[00:14:59] dead body. My
[00:15:02] parents and sister were taken out of the house into the snow, not even being allowed
[00:15:05] to put on warm clothes. For the execution, probably for
[00:15:08] mockery, they specifically chose a low and dirty
[00:15:12] place. She searched for him her whole life,
[00:15:15] searched for 50 years, and our local village council chairwoman,
[00:15:18] Reiserman, says, "Where does she keep going?" Maria Vladimirovna,
[00:15:22] I don't know, it's awkward to ask, she was probably looking for him.
[00:16:37] They shot Jews brought from the Mir Ghetto. We stood
[00:16:41] a few tens of meters from the pit and watched
[00:16:44] what was happening. First, women and children were shot,
[00:16:48] and then men. After that, the police ordered us
[00:16:51] to bury the dead. Many of them were still alive, and the earth, as
[00:16:55] if alive, heaved and fell over their bodies, as if
[00:16:59] breathing. This was the final point in
[00:17:03] the solution of the Jewish question. An estimated
[00:17:07] number. 600-650 people, it was a mass
[00:17:10] execution, the destruction of people, where there was
[00:17:14] blood, where there were tears, where there were screams,
[00:17:18] where there was an understanding that this was the end of everything,
[00:17:21] the end of the lives of those people who at that moment
[00:17:25] were near this pit. When people were being shot,
[00:17:28] a girl asked one of the policemen not to
[00:17:32] kill her, to save her. And he pushed her alive into this
[00:17:35] quarry. How could they?
[00:17:44] The translator Osvald Rufaizen's own life saved hundreds of residents of Mir and
[00:17:48] surrounding villages. He reported on impending punitive actions,
[00:17:52] handed over weapons, and helped people escape to the forest. But after
[00:17:55] the Jewish pogrom, he was captured. Osvald
[00:17:58] Rufaizen was not arrested, he was taken to the commandant's office. The commandant
[00:18:02] conducted an interrogation, but in principle he could not believe that
[00:18:06] it was he who committed such an act. For him it was
[00:18:09] something unthinkable. He left
[00:18:12] Osvaldo Rufaizan in the office and left himself. Oswald
[00:18:16] took advantage of the opportunity
[00:18:19] and escaped. They looked for him everywhere, as
[00:18:23] I understand, but he hid with the nuns of the local
[00:18:27] monastery, hid for a long time, there is even
[00:18:30] a version that for more
[00:18:33] than a year, in women's monastic clothing...
[00:18:42] He hid for 19 months, then went to a partisan detachment, and after the war moved to Israel, to the city
[00:18:45] of Haifa, where he was known as Monk Daniel, and
[00:18:48] Seraphimovich was promoted after successful punitive
[00:18:52] actions and transferred to Baranovichi, where he headed the punitive
[00:18:55] detachment. It was called Jagdkommando 1, which means
[00:18:59] extermination squad. In this extermination squad,
[00:19:03] personnel were selected, which Seraphimovich also selected
[00:19:06] and trained. Excellent personnel, but also
[00:19:09] for one or two months they underwent training, that is, drill,
[00:19:13] command execution, shooting, and various
[00:19:16] tactical training, how to encircle villages,
[00:19:19] how to fight partisans. The detachment was well
[00:19:22] armed. The task of the special punitive unit was to fight
[00:19:26] partisans. However, it was much easier to fight unarmed
[00:19:30] people, encircle a village, shoot or burn the population
[00:19:33] alive, and then write in a report that dozens
[00:19:37] of bandits were destroyed. This is how the Nazis and their accomplices called
[00:19:41] partisans. In the autumn of 1942, Seraphimovich and
[00:19:44] the police carried out a punitive action against partisan
[00:19:48] formations. His agents reported that the villages of Antonovo and
[00:19:52] Sinyavskaya Sloboda had become a refuge for partisans. Many
[00:19:55] partisan families live here, practically every house bakes
[00:19:59] bread and collects provisions to send to the forest. Moreover, the local
[00:20:02] residents are partisan liaisons, which means
[00:20:06] enemies of the occupation.
[00:20:37] They spared neither children nor the elderly, then looted houses
[00:20:41] and held torchlight processions. In Yeremichi, there was
[00:20:44] a family, Stenin, who
[00:20:48] had not had children for eight years.
[00:21:21] from the barn. The policeman saw her running away, caught up with her,
[00:21:24] and shot her. Only one boy was left. The boy ate,
[00:21:28] I heard machine gun fire and wild screams. People were herded into a house
[00:21:31] and set on fire. There was smoke and a pungent smell, which made it very
[00:21:35] difficult to breathe. I lay there for about 3
[00:21:38] days. One morning early I heard a woman crying, went out to
[00:21:42] her. She asked me where I came from, and I told
[00:21:45] her everything. She told me that everyone had been burned,
[00:21:49] including my mother. They went into one
[00:21:52] house, shot everyone, and didn't notice a small boy
[00:21:55] whose whole family had been shot. This child,
[00:21:59] 3 years old, he was, well, about that small. After that, he
[00:22:02] ran out of the house crying. The police
[00:22:05] returned and killed this little
[00:22:08] child. By the summer of 1943,
[00:22:12] Seraphimovich had risen to the rank of lieutenant in the German army. Before
[00:22:15] the Red Army's offensive, the executioner fled to East Prussia, where he joined the
[00:22:19] volunteer infantry SS division under the command
[00:22:22] of Hans Zeigling. Seraphimovich was a platoon
[00:22:26] commander. After the division was defeated, he was captured
[00:22:30] and began collaborating with British intelligence.
[00:22:33] He was used by them
[00:22:36] as a teacher in one of the
[00:22:38] special schools for training saboteurs
[00:22:42] who were to be prepared for deployment to the territory
[00:22:45] of the Soviet Union. The search for
[00:22:48] Seraphimovich began immediately after the end of the Great Patriotic War. A search
[00:22:51] case was opened for the traitor of the homeland, accomplice
[00:22:55] of the Nazis, executioner. These are
[00:22:58] two rather
[00:23:02] voluminous volumes, the basis
[00:23:05] of which is the data
[00:23:07] that was available to the state security agencies at
[00:23:11] the time of the investigation, which was the end of the 1940s,
[00:23:14] and the interrogation protocols
[00:23:17] of witnesses, and also.
[00:25:53] As much as I told, I cried as much, remembering
[00:25:56] those terrible events that took place during
[00:25:59] the war, how Serfich mocked people.
[00:29:02] it's great here,
[00:29:17] there are no objective reasons, there is only
[00:29:20] terrible irresponsibility and
[00:29:23] lack of discipline. Executive discipline is a
[00:29:27] complex and rather difficult topic. On what issues do people
[00:29:30] judge the work of the authorities? This is, of course, housing and communal services and
[00:29:33] roads. The State Control Committee conducted
[00:29:36] a large-scale inspection. They relied on citizens'
[00:29:39] appeals. Now all attention is on the settlements that will
[00:29:43] host the Dazhynki harvest festival. We checked, and work is in full swing.
[00:29:47] Not only in the city, but in the entire district, more than 50
[00:29:50] km of roads have been repaired. This includes the road surface itself, as well as sidewalks,
[00:29:54] bicycle paths, signs, and bus stops.
[00:29:57] The organization services 1600 km of roads in
[00:30:00] the entire Minsk region.
[00:30:02] for each season are very extensive, so we will see very soon
[00:30:06] whether it was possible to work on that very discipline in
[00:30:09] the field? the food
[00:30:13] security of the entire country depends on the effectiveness of the harvesting campaign. The State
[00:30:17] Control Committee checked the farms of the Dobrush district.
[00:30:20] There were some shortcomings, but at the committee's request,
[00:30:23] all violations were
[00:30:36] various spheres are being resolved under the president's control,
[00:30:40] watch on the Belarus24