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[00:03:21] My authority was confirmed by my voters when I became a deputy,
[00:03:25] people say that deputies drive Mercedes with flashing lights
[00:03:34] normal systematic work in the parliament, but we should not
[00:03:38] turn the army into some kind of sanatorium,
[00:03:41] there should be no excesses in the armed
[00:03:44] forces, if young people are like that, it's not their fault, it's our fault, we
[00:03:48] need to work with them, when I remember the events of 2020
[00:03:51] and the statements of Mr. Macron, yes, there
[00:03:55] about democratic approaches, about free will
[00:03:58] expression, about... inadmissibility of violence, all about
[00:04:02] this, his phrases from 2020 just pop up in my mind,
[00:04:06] what I think, I gloat, but there is a significant difference,
[00:04:09] that our protests were organized
[00:04:12] from outside, their protests are
[00:04:15] protests of their own people and from within, it doesn't matter where
[00:04:19] this drone lands and it doesn't matter from which side
[00:04:22] people
[00:04:24] die, from one or the other, it's
[00:04:28] really a tragedy.
[00:05:06] drive Mercedes with flashing lights
[00:05:10] have you acquired
[00:05:19] react to stupidity? we, probably, every day face
[00:05:22] some, everyone, probably, faces -
[00:05:26] ordinary human stupidity, when a person doesn't
[00:05:29] think about anything, just
[00:05:32] repeats a phrase that he once heard somewhere or
[00:05:36] some established narrative, not attaching any importance to it,
[00:05:40] that's why I usually treat it with humor, thank God, every day
[00:05:44] I am not asked such questions, my neighbors,
[00:05:47] who see me in the entrance, at home, who see where I live, what I
[00:05:50] drive, so I am not asked such questions every day, but the thing is,
[00:05:54] all deputies work in electoral districts,
[00:05:57] meet on a regular basis
[00:06:00] and often with collectives, with people,
[00:06:03] somewhere when monitoring prices, in stores
[00:06:06] they talk to people, well, there, well, at least to me, and to others
[00:06:10] in between, so to speak.
[00:06:42] it's interesting how those they elected live, well, of course,
[00:06:46] if today I take this opportunity to tell a wide
[00:06:49] audience for our country, I will say that deputies do not have
[00:06:53] flashing lights, because there are no cars, it's
[00:06:56] inconvenient to carry the extreme flashing light with you if just like that, yes
[00:07:00] there are several official cars, I honestly don't
[00:07:03] even know how many, because I only once
[00:07:06] had to use this car when I had to fly abroad
[00:07:10] for a business trip as an observer for elections.
[00:08:45] Of course, discipline, discipline, well, you can,
[00:08:49] discipline is such an all-encompassing word, yes,
[00:08:52] our president often talks about discipline, discipline in
[00:08:56] production, personal discipline, some
[00:09:00] social discipline, discipline towards
[00:09:03] oneself, yes, discipline can be broken down further
[00:09:07] into responsibility, ability to perform
[00:09:10] tasks, so if you take it. in a word - it's discipline,
[00:09:14] of course, of course, I, like any
[00:09:17] officer, worked with people all my life,
[00:09:21] or rather, like most officers, worked with people, at
[00:09:24] 17.5 years old, when I was
[00:09:27] appointed squad leader, my first
[00:09:30] subordinates appeared in the military academy, well, later,
[00:09:34] going through different positions, there were only more of them,
[00:09:37] people are not the same, people are all different with their
[00:09:41] characters, with their peculiarities,
[00:09:44] conscripts, who are
[00:09:48] subordinate to you, officers, who are
[00:09:50] subordinate to you in different positions, whether you are a platoon
[00:09:54] commander, company commander, deputy battalion commander or in my
[00:09:58] case a detachment commander, that is, but your
[00:10:01] task is to unite all these different people
[00:10:04] with one goal, besides training, yes, and so that all
[00:10:08] people with different thoughts, with different characters, with
[00:10:12] different... worldview, you must teach them,
[00:10:15] train them and bring them to such a state that they must
[00:10:19] perform one task as a single unit, as
[00:10:22] a subdivision, this is well...
[00:11:58] went, you must clearly tell people, we will try this,
[00:12:01] we will do this, we will try to
[00:12:05] solve this, and I cannot tell you about the result, because it does not
[00:12:09] depend on me, this is for the future, well, and so on, that is,
[00:12:13] people must understand clearly, probably,
[00:12:16] well, in my case, how many practically I
[00:12:19] visited, no, not practically, I visited all large enterprises, now
[00:12:23] I have already reached enterprises...
[00:13:01] colleagues, with parliamentarians, here what
[00:13:04] skills, you can insist on your own and say, I
[00:13:08] believe that it should be
[00:13:17] deputies consists of two parts, yes, this is the general deputy
[00:13:20] team, this is the team, there
[00:13:23] are serious people who have passed. all good school,
[00:13:26] achieved good
[00:13:29] results in previous activities, and those people in whom
[00:13:33] collectives believed, because as a rule, these are professionals in their
[00:13:36] field, but in the
[00:13:39] deputy field, that is, we have a team,
[00:13:42] but you see, there is a solution to issues, in
[00:13:46] solving issues, each deputy has
[00:13:50] his own opinion, personal opinion, which he brought from
[00:13:54] his region.
[00:14:25] you understand, how everything depends on
[00:14:28] how
[00:14:30] much you are supported by Asnold or
[00:14:34] how much, yes, well, somewhere in the West it's called factions, you brought
[00:14:38] an idea and say, let's do it this way, I explain simply,
[00:14:41] deputies are sitting in the commission, another says, let's
[00:14:45] do it this way, well, they start to prove that this is
[00:14:48] good, this will be even better, there is also
[00:14:52] an expert opinion, yes, these are people who... from
[00:14:55] specialized ministries, because not only deputies participate in
[00:14:59] the adoption of laws, experts are always
[00:15:01] involved, these are primarily specialists
[00:15:05] from specialized ministries, this is the scientific
[00:15:08] community, public opinion is always
[00:15:11] studied by these deputies, this
[00:15:14] symbiosis, it boils, boils, everyone proves something, we
[00:15:17] achieve something, sometimes it happens immediately, for example,
[00:15:21] after the first or second meeting, but...
[00:15:25] and sometimes it's very long processes, for example,
[00:15:29] it can take 7-8 months of disputes and so on, they say that
[00:15:32] sometimes that we don't see you on TV, you just sit there and
[00:15:36] decide. The fact is that
[00:15:40] all this kitchen, all the work, we
[00:15:42] have our own political mentality in
[00:15:46] Belarus, yes, we have our own political culture developed
[00:15:49] during this sovereign independent Belarus, we
[00:15:53] don't engage in
[00:15:56] political populism, as politicians, deputies and
[00:15:59] officials,
[00:16:39] commissions, and people ask such
[00:16:43] to see you arguing,
[00:17:08] and we have normal systematic
[00:17:23] work
[00:17:27] in parliament, there are disputes, there is sometimes some
[00:17:30] good anger, for example, when you, well, you just
[00:17:33] couldn't, you did everything, but you couldn't prove your point, all this exists.
[00:17:53] with a clear conscience, when I go out in front
[00:17:56] of the collective, I can say that,
[00:17:59] friends, yes, I don't hide my gaze, I wasn't
[00:18:03] appointed here, not sent, this is an elected position.
[00:19:04] transformations, the first after 2020, by the way,
[00:20:07] criticize, but at the same time, probably,
[00:20:11] such a format allows for a more understandable delivery,
[00:20:14] than, excuse the expression, whining,
[00:20:18] and, that is, this is already the third transformation,
[00:20:22] when, already in the position of deputy, well, I comment
[00:20:25] on some events that are happening, what is being discussed on TikTok, specifically in
[00:20:29] our space, I mean, on the territory of the Republic
[00:20:33] of Belarus, maybe in Ukraine, in Russia, abroad, with our neighbors, that is.
[00:20:37] I have no goal of doing this, well, that's just how it is, I
[00:20:41] saw news today that interested me,
[00:20:44] I was walking to work somewhere, an idea was born in my head, I
[00:20:48] commented on it, roughly speaking, so... you have to restrain yourself,
[00:20:52] you understand who you
[00:20:58] discuss this topic, that the army today
[00:21:02] is a kindergarten, these are your words,
[00:21:05] here you need to understand correctly, not to snatch out of
[00:21:08] context, and this I quoted
[00:21:11] the words of the fathers of children
[00:21:14] who serve, with whom I communicated, these are not my
[00:21:17] words, this is a quote.
[00:21:50] kindergarten, correctly, if I didn't
[00:21:53] have, I had a washbasin, like
[00:21:56] many, in the academy, who studied
[00:21:59] there in the nineties, before the nineties, there
[00:22:02] was normal cold water running, and there was no talk of
[00:22:06] hot water at all, if you wanted to
[00:22:09] wash yourself additionally besides once a week in
[00:22:11] the bathhouse, there was a coiled hose lying in almost every washbasin,
[00:22:15] you put it on this faucet and showered
[00:22:19] with the hose. Soaped up, rinsed off with cold water and nothing, alive,
[00:22:22] healthy, like millions of other men who went through this
[00:22:26] school, now they have shower cabins in the
[00:22:30] barracks, washing machines, how did we
[00:22:32] wash ourselves, threw it on the floor with laundry soap
[00:22:36] smeared it, took this floor polisher, with which
[00:22:39] they washed the floor, just similar, yes, with a floor polisher right on the
[00:22:43] floor, then drained, rinsed, hung, sometimes
[00:22:46] even put it on myself, wet, squeezed well, put on a greatcoat over it and dried it.
[00:22:50] in this way from my own warmth, you understand, that's why then they said that the army is
[00:22:53] a school of life, now the army, well, that's how it should not be, we should not
[00:22:57] remain in that, but I have always been a supporter,
[00:23:01] hot water should be, I agree, we must
[00:23:04] improve, washing machines should be, all this
[00:23:07] should, but we must not turn the army into some kind of sanatorium,
[00:23:11] there should be no excesses in the armed
[00:23:14] forces, there should be everything strict and severe, so far
[00:23:18] nothing superfluous, just people who... there is no quiet
[00:23:21] hour anymore, the
[00:23:24] thing is, for people of my generation and
[00:23:28] before, what I told you about, yes, it's just an example of how we
[00:23:31] washed and did laundry, and there are mass of such examples,
[00:23:34] right now it seems that these conditions are
[00:23:38] hothouse, so they call it a kindergarten, but we cannot remain in
[00:23:42] that, we must improve, well, we must
[00:23:45] improve, but if you have to live in the forest
[00:23:48] for years, well, then...
[00:23:57] that an officer, that a soldier, well, that's it, although when they live in field
[00:24:01] conditions, there is no difference, they must be
[00:24:04] ready for this, and how to prepare, if
[00:24:07] now to create really like sanatorium conditions, then when
[00:24:11] they have to plunge into that atmosphere, where
[00:24:15] they will have to overcome the hardships and deprivations of military
[00:24:18] service, then the soldier officer.
[00:24:50] in sneakers with Velcro and doesn't know how to tie shoelaces, well, what will you
[00:24:53] do, well, that's why they say that now we need to treat, not
[00:24:57] teach, I would not say that we need to
[00:25:20] Nikolaevich, why did we used to send men to the army, so that they would become
[00:25:23] men, now they go to the army, they don't become men, let's discuss this topic in the
[00:25:27] next part,
[00:26:06] a year in the army, two, or do we become men there?
[00:26:10] Well, we weren't talking about that, we were talking about
[00:26:19] and always the same, let's summarize, that is, for
[00:26:22] 10 years young people were different from each other, but in principle
[00:26:26] not like their older generation, that
[00:26:30] now everything is the same because
[00:26:32] of the society in which it is, and how
[00:26:36] we, if young people are like that, it's not their fault, it's our
[00:26:39] fault, we are to blame that they are like that, that's all,
[00:26:43] so there's no need to blame young people, they need to be worked with, and they are
[00:26:46] the same as 10, 20 and 30 years ago
[00:27:02] think, there weren't such people before? Well, believe me, in the nineties
[00:27:06] they came, I will directly quote you,
[00:27:09] Comrade Senior Lieutenant, I have a "wowka" here, what do you have
[00:27:13] here, well, "wowka, wowka" - what is that, a "bolka", I say, so you
[00:27:17] scratched yourself,
[00:27:19] so what, do I need to rub it with ointment, you understand, well, what do I need to rub
[00:27:23] here, look at my hands, we maintained the equipment together, also all
[00:27:26] scratched up, you understand, and there were such people 10, 20 and 30
[00:28:02] young soldier going to war, if there is no
[00:28:06] defense against a drone, but if you can't dodge it
[00:28:09] in any way, if it, well, wait, there are always ways, there are no
[00:28:13] hopeless situations, there is no
[00:28:16] 100% effective counteraction to
[00:28:19] drones, but there are various countermeasures, that is, it can be
[00:28:23] shot down with a pump-action shotgun, anti-drone nets can be stretched,
[00:28:26] well, I won't go into detail about that, that is, there are countermeasures, electronic warfare
[00:28:30] works there, that is, there are countermeasures, but
[00:28:33] 100%, well, we must understand that, as in
[00:28:37] everything, the drone is improving and
[00:28:40] its countermeasures are improving. Back in
[00:28:43] 2010, the first time I conducted classes with the chairmen of district executive
[00:28:47] committees, I asked, well,
[00:28:50] one head
[00:28:54] of a military-industrial enterprise of our military-industrial
[00:28:57] complex, to show prospective samples, back then in
[00:29:00] 2010 he showed the first one... well, it wasn't the first, but he showed
[00:29:04] a drone, it was even controlled not with a joystick, but with a computer on
[00:29:07] a small table, it flew up to three kilometers,
[00:29:11] at most, maybe even, everyone looked at it as just a toy,
[00:29:15] and they mainly saw its use in reconnaissance, that is,
[00:29:18] a unit is moving, a drone is sent forward, it flies and conducts
[00:29:22] reconnaissance there, and now we see it as
[00:29:26] a strike force, and a very serious one, but along with these drones
[00:29:29] their countermeasures are also developing, the fact that there are no stops...
[00:30:33] into territorial defense - this is the second major component, people
[00:30:36] are mobilized, they are obliged to go
[00:30:39] there, then to the people's militia
[00:30:43] a person is not obliged to go, he goes there by
[00:30:47] his own will, this is the first, that is,
[00:30:50] his own will, secondly, that
[00:30:53] the requirements for health in
[00:30:56] the people's militia are minimized by age, yes, requirements must be observed,
[00:31:00] because people... will have
[00:31:03] medical indications, mental state, especially, because people will
[00:31:07] perform tasks with weapons, but in principle, if you feel
[00:31:10] confident at 70
[00:31:13] years old, then... you will be taken into the people's militia at 70
[00:31:17] years old, well, there's no need to give examples, we know them from our own
[00:31:21] history, yes, about our partisans,
[00:31:24] our grandfathers and great-grandfathers, how these
[00:31:27] men of seventy or sixty years old, sometimes
[00:31:31] older, could fight, so the people's militia -
[00:31:35] this is first by personal desire, second, there are essentially
[00:31:39] minimal health requirements, well, and you said in some
[00:31:42] interview that there are enough volunteers, right?
[00:32:45] there was a related civilian specialty, then train
[00:32:48] him as much as possible in a related civilian
[00:32:52] specialty and give him a related specialty in the armed forces, if not, just give
[00:32:56] him a specialty, then assign him to a military unit, taking into account all
[00:32:59] characteristics, exactly the same work is carried out in territorial
[00:33:02] defense, here in the people's militia, well, of course,
[00:33:06] preference is given to people who
[00:33:09] have served, preference is given to hunters,
[00:33:13] because they know the terrain, they don't know the forest rangers, for example, if
[00:33:17] these are elderly people and are not subject to conscription, that is, of course,
[00:33:20] some set of knowledge and
[00:33:23] skills, it is always important
[00:33:26] when performing or in the future performing some tasks,
[00:33:30] yes, so of course, well, if a person knows how to handle
[00:33:33] a shotgun, knows his area like the back of his hand,
[00:33:37] in which he will be, then of course, well, if there is
[00:33:41] a person who does not have these skills, then there will be a choice
[00:35:15] on his own land, on one person lies
[00:35:18] this responsibility, because he led
[00:35:21] the country, he led, it's clear, he was let down
[00:35:25] around him, and they sang praises and advised,
[00:35:29] but as our president says, I am
[00:35:32] the president, I am responsible for every person here
[00:35:36] in this country for everything that happens here, if you take
[00:35:39] the principle of a real president, like ours, a real
[00:35:42] man, like ours, then this... person is to blame for
[00:35:46] everything that is happening now, in his own
[00:35:56] the true path, whoever was interested in at least
[00:35:59] a little external politics remembers Zelensky's election program,
[00:36:02] this handsome, wonderful, amazing guy who
[00:36:06] spoke Russian as if nothing had happened his whole life, I defended
[00:36:10] the right of Ukrainians to speak, he defended
[00:36:13] the right of Ukrainians, that is, he was normal.
[00:36:15] But in my opinion, when he
[00:36:19] sat in the presidential chair, we know all the politics of Ukraine over
[00:36:23] the past years, it has never been
[00:36:26] independent. 10-15, or even
[00:36:29] 20 years, there were always some advisors, American, some
[00:36:33] others, what they advised him, he
[00:36:37] lacked the courage to defend the position of his people,
[00:36:41] not the interests of those who advised him, so maybe he
[00:36:45] went to the elections not to defend the interests of the people, but to fill
[00:36:48] his wallet? Here you need to delve more into the political career
[00:36:52] of Comrade Zelensky, which is extremely short, in fact, yes, because he
[00:37:04] he made good statements at the beginning, those from the election
[00:37:08] program, well, a little bit cloying,
[00:37:11] but in principle it has a right to exist, yes, that is, it's very similar to
[00:37:15] the program, that someone
[00:37:19] recruited him
[00:37:22] specifically to bring Ukraine to such a state, yes, but
[00:37:26] what's happening in Ukraine.
[00:37:57] Okay, despite the fact that he makes sour faces sometimes,
[00:38:00] here, yes, he shed tears, everything is fine, we
[00:38:04] can see, and these are normal shots, not fakes,
[00:38:08] confirmed by foreign media, where
[00:38:12] they visit shops, what his wife buys, what real estate periodically,
[00:38:16] I'm sure, this is only just appearing for Zelensky, for Zelensky everything
[00:38:20] is wonderful, but today he is immobile in this financial
[00:38:57] his phrases from
[00:39:05] yes, his last statement, we will act harshly,
[00:39:08] we will stop all this, we are watching how the
[00:39:11] police act towards their own population, and at
[00:39:14] the initial stage now the demographic
[00:39:17] spectrum of protesters
[00:39:20] has expanded, at first these were schoolchildren, they were beaten,
[00:39:24] killed right before their eyes, schoolchildren there.
[00:39:27] Here, I'm a little bit, to be honest, humanly speaking, we are all people,
[00:39:42] Macron is putting on a brave face, yes,
[00:39:45] talking about constitutional order, and so on,
[00:39:49] well, he should have remembered it then and expressed his normal
[00:39:52] opinion regarding Belarus, when the
[00:39:55] protests were happening. But
[00:39:58] there is a significant difference, that our protests were organized
[00:40:02] from outside, their protests are from within,
[00:40:06] these are the protests of their own people and from within, it's not
[00:40:09] only in France, this is already spreading to
[00:40:13] Belgium, it already felt like it could be announced, like, you know, at a parade,
[00:40:15] now a column of students and schoolchildren from
[00:40:19] Greece is coming out to protests, well, because otherwise
[00:40:23] it's not the same I don't perceive it.
[00:40:27] So maybe it's not from within, but from without too, you
[00:40:31] know the theory, that the USA, well,
[00:40:34] has an intention, but that's also another
[00:40:38] conspiracy theory, to
[00:40:41] weaken Europe, let's put it this way, now there's a redistribution
[00:40:44] of the world order, every state,
[00:40:48] or coalition of states,
[00:40:51] this is a perfectly normal natural process, trying
[00:40:54] to extract benefit from all this for its own state. elections
[00:41:28] of this whole show, they're like, well, they have such a political
[00:41:31] system, so they
[00:41:34] act like showmen, they make loud statements, but that
[00:41:38] doesn't mean that's what's actually happening.
[00:43:10] we travel less often, but there's enough newsreels of various
[00:43:13] footage, news, and we'll see what Europe has turned into
[00:43:16] in just a decade in the last 5
[00:43:19] years, the migration crisis, these migrants
[00:43:23] walk around there just trampling on indigenous people, already
[00:43:26] indigenous people in their own country have become aborigines, the standard of living
[00:43:30] significantly falls,
[00:43:32] social guarantees for the population, which in
[00:43:36] Europe were always considered such a, well, a highlight, right, there.
[00:43:40] the level, for example, of the same street maintenance, everything, before we
[00:43:44] used to say, oh, how beautiful it is there, how it's the same, what's on the shelves in stores,
[00:43:48] usually for an ordinary person you don't need much there, right, all
[00:43:52] this has gone into oblivion, all this, of course,
[00:43:55] outrages the people, and the people ask, why, and
[00:43:58] there is one answer, that we support Ukraine, we must
[00:44:02] help, they like stubborn rams repeat this day in
[00:44:05] and day out, we will support, perfectly understanding that they will never
[00:44:09] defeat Russia. but money goes
[00:44:12] there, the standard of living at home falls,
[00:44:16] people tell them on the streets what to do, but
[00:44:48] Military-Political School, but the union collapsed, and you ended up in
[00:44:51] Minsk. And how did this moment of personal choice against
[00:44:55] the backdrop of a geopolitical catastrophe affect your attitude towards your
[00:44:58] homeland?
[00:45:01] Well, after the Riga school, when it was disbanded,
[00:45:04] I studied at the Military Engineering and Space Institute named after Mozhaisky in
[00:45:07] St. Petersburg. then
[00:45:10] I
[00:45:13] didn't even transfer, it would be wrong, I translated the word incorrectly, I was expelled
[00:45:17] and reinstated at the Minsk Higher Military Command
[00:45:20] School,
[00:45:32] people began, in principle, not all, but mostly
[00:45:35] to return to their republics, that is, to their
[00:45:38] countries, it was already... clear that what
[00:45:42] was, would no longer be in the near future
[00:47:47] how many geopolitical twists and turns we have
[00:47:50] already experienced, I mean.
[00:48:33] of course, then patriotic feelings prevailed among everyone,
[00:48:36] Ukrainians for Ukraine, Belarusians Russians, that is, then such a
[00:48:40] disunity occurred, right, we didn't stop being friends, we didn't stop
[00:48:44] communicating, well, somehow everyone for
[00:48:47] themselves, everyone for themselves became more like that, yes, because for the union, well,
[00:48:51] it's right when it's easier to...
[00:52:05] in Ukraine, in Latvia and in Lithuania, yes, there
[00:52:08] in Poland, there, everything that is around us there literally
[00:52:12] exists. Of course, we are on such an island
[00:52:15] now, some kind of floating island, but this stability is
[00:52:19] security, and thanks to the president and his
[00:52:23] policy and thanks to the government and the parliamentary
[00:52:26] corps, thanks to our people, who work, that is, all of us
[00:52:30] Belarusians, we manage to preserve.
[00:52:33] this, well, the president says a shaky peace, yes, but we
[00:52:36] we manage to maintain it, sanity, because
[00:52:40] as you said, everyone used to be friends, and now it's impossible to read
[00:52:44] social networks, how everyone hates