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00:00:00of a smart approach, including you will uncover this topic, but I
00:00:03propose 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,
00:00:10mhm, right now we are moving to this
00:00:12block.
00:00:15Nikolai Nikolaevich, today your knowledge, your experience, your ideas
00:00:18are implemented not only in Belarus, but in Russia, in Kazakhstan.
00:00:21A unique destiny from the point of view that, in general, even the paths
00:00:25in architecture could have been different for you, I mean even
00:00:28geographical ones, you... became the youngest architect of the city
00:00:31of Minsk in your time, yes you had the opportunity to generally stay in
00:00:35Minsk, but you chose Brest, and that is, you returned
00:00:38to your native Brest, we remember that you are a resident of Brest in the third
00:00:42generation already, well what was that, because everyone always strives for
00:00:46Minsk somehow, yes everyone thinks that Minsk is
00:00:49the peak of a career, but you acted differently, this is also
00:00:53the uniqueness of your choice, you know, probably, well, how
00:00:56it turned out, a good theoretical base was formed.
00:00:59That is, working at the Belgorodstroi Institute allowed me to have
00:01:02an idea of modern trends in urban planning, in urbanism,
00:01:06and I assumed that working in Minsk
00:01:10would allow me to quickly implement some approaches, modern
00:01:13trends, but after working in
00:01:17the city, I realized
00:01:20that in a small city or in
00:01:23a regional center, in my hometown, to implement my ideas, approaches, it would be not
00:01:27that... easier, you see, a strong connection is very important, the mayor
00:01:31of the city and the chief architect,
00:01:34and therefore, when the proposal came
00:01:38from the mayor of Brest to come to Brest as a single team
00:01:42to work on the fact that the city is preparing for its millennium,
00:01:45in general, there was such a carte blanche to
00:01:49try to implement those ideas that
00:01:53exist, using Brest as an example, I
00:01:57took advantage of this opportunity and returned to my hometown. If
00:02:00you even look today at approaches, well, in the same
00:02:03Europe, not all Germans seek to move to
00:02:07Berlin to live, yes, there are many cities, there are
00:02:10Dresden, there are Leipzig and so on and
00:02:13so forth, which have some kind of their own feature, their own
00:02:17trick, that is, be it in Dresden, the Dresden
00:02:20Gallery or Oktoberfest, and what is our problem
00:02:23today, it's that Minsk, like a magnet, pulls all
00:02:27resources from the republic. Small
00:02:30towns, villages are being built, the number of
00:02:34residents is decreasing, regional centers are collecting them, from regional centers everyone goes to
00:02:37the capital, but you have a solution, and
00:02:41it was announced, yes, the topic is that Minsk is not made of rubber, this is
00:02:44true, even the head of state said that it's enough to inflate
00:02:48Minsk, therefore the topic of the Minsk agglomeration
00:02:51of satellite cities appeared, so today we are actively talking
00:02:55about the need to develop identity, branding,
00:02:58and rethinking.
00:04:00work on the Smart approach system, and
00:04:03moreover, it formed the basis of China's state program,
00:04:07at our level, something could certainly also
00:04:10be done, we also, of course, have the topic of smart cities,
00:04:13a state program for the development of smart cities, much
00:04:16has been done at different levels, but sometimes I joke,
00:04:20I say, which city is smarter, let's compare, so,
00:04:24what, Kobrin or Pinsk, so, Minsk or
00:04:27Grodno, how will we compare? Which city
00:04:30is smarter, where there are more smart technologies, smart services, how many smart
00:04:34gadgets are needed, yes, to say that the city has become smart,
00:04:38or there are other criteria, and the idea of a smart city
00:04:41is not to stuff the city with these gadgets,
00:04:44these gadgets will already be watching you,
00:04:48it's about having feedback from the city's residents, smart
00:04:51technologies are not equal to a smart city,
00:04:55feedback, rather, I consider this a more important
00:04:58component, because I think,
00:05:12a slightly different path, before the start
00:05:16of design, we hung in the city's info center two
00:05:19maps, with green color the places that need to be preserved, with red
00:05:22color the places that need to be corrected, and this
00:05:26was, in general, such a marker for the city hall, for
00:05:29the city administration, to see in what priority the
00:05:33urban development policy should be arranged,
00:05:35and local residents began to say that we want more
00:05:39bike paths, we want this to be a green city, we...
00:06:12the author of this scientific work, I won't hesitate to say it, quite
00:06:15weighty, and this is the strategy Brest, the city
00:06:18Garden. Why exactly Brest, why, what were its
00:06:22indications to become a garden city? This is probably
00:06:26the only, or very rare city in Belarus that
00:06:30was moved to a new location. During the construction of the fortress, the thousand-year-old
00:06:34city in the middle of the 19th century was moved one and a half kilometers
00:06:38to the east, and a block system was formed by military engineers.
00:06:41квартальная.
00:06:55the ideal city, which was developed in England
00:06:59at the end of the 19th century, that is, 50 years later
00:07:03than Brest, the same center, park, today it is a fortress
00:07:06and radial block development with
00:07:09a comfortable scale, so it's like this: this inspired the theme
00:07:13of a garden city, this is, of course, not the same garden city in
00:07:17the understanding of the Middle Ages or the 19th century, it is a garden city
00:07:21in the modern understanding at a new turn, well, it turns out that
00:07:25in general the Mukhavets River becomes such a main
00:07:28superstar of this project, a place of attraction, yes,
00:07:32the coastal area is being transformed, just last
00:07:36month a new beach area was opened, that is,
00:07:39these elements appear...
00:08:42The service system was built quite competently,
00:08:46and the accessibility radii were, well, correctly selected within walking
00:08:50distance, schools, kindergartens, clinics,
00:08:53shops, today it is only necessary to simply give
00:08:56polish and comfort, quality to this environment,
00:09:00which we inherited, well, everything new that is built,
00:09:03to form in a new quality, how did you
00:09:06feel that Brest could be made into a brand,
00:09:09well, you know, there are still prerequisites, returning
00:09:13to Brest, you feel a comfortable environment,
00:09:17large-scale development of the historical center, there is
00:09:20a river, a lot of greenery, boulevards,
00:09:23you arrive there in Sochi or Odessa, yes, there is some kind of
00:09:27resort message, and we
00:09:30analyzed this concept of the southern capital, that
00:09:34Brest is located in the same climatic zone as Prague, that
00:09:38is, well, practically Southern Europe,
00:09:42and if you look at the vegetation, we have very, well,
00:09:45the vegetation is quite meager, we have very little
00:09:48vertical landscaping, the same ivy, there wisteria,
00:09:51there, so, Virginia creeper, a lot
00:09:54of plants that could be a symbol of the city, like a chestnut, for
00:09:58Brest, there is a medal, so, a thousand years of Brest,
00:10:02the symbol, the logo, so, it's a chestnut leaf,
00:10:05mhm, for example, the embankment could have been decorated, and we
00:10:09have already started decorating it with Crimean pines, these are pines
00:10:12with large needles, or, for example, we planted an alley of
00:10:16Magnolias, where else in Belarus is there an alley of Magnolias or an alley
00:10:19of plane trees, plane trees are generally somewhere, it seems, somewhere in Italy,
00:10:23but they grow here. With these shaggy cones,
00:10:27so, with bare bark, a whole
00:10:30alley, there are forty-year-old trees in the city,
00:10:34so you can use these exotics, these
00:10:37plants to form, uh, this brand of the southern
00:10:41region, well, and moreover, naturally, following the brand,
00:10:44following the city, the economy naturally catches up, a city cannot exist
00:10:48without an economy, architects also learn this, but
00:10:52if we speculate, you as an author, yes, and as...
00:11:25sites that will be interesting for the developer, of course,
00:11:29the more correctly we formulate the design brief
00:11:31or the urban planning passport, the more
00:11:35accurately we will hit the auction theme or the
00:11:39developer's theme. For example, the formation of a new
00:11:43city skyline along Warsaw Highway,
00:11:46when we had formed in the Soviet period the entrance
00:11:50from the bridge, Shevchenko Boulevard, such
00:11:53gates, two buildings on both sides, which welcome, so,
00:11:57residents, we made, as it were, such a curtsy
00:12:00from the other side, from the southern part, also
00:12:04such gates in the form of a business center, in
00:12:06the form of a modern hotel, gradually
00:12:09such a development is being built which
00:12:12well, says that the city today has a modern
00:12:16look, in fact, a new modern avenue, besides
00:12:19the embankment, we realized that there are already very serious shifts in this, a city garden appeared,
00:12:23which is also, by the way, a very remarkable place, I think, for
00:12:27citizens and guests of Brest, and what else is now already in
00:12:30the process of implementation? You know, in every direction there have been some
00:12:34shifts, if we talk about the historical center,
00:12:38then, between the fortress and
00:12:41the city there was an esplanade territory, this is a territory that was not
00:12:44built up, in the Soviet period it formed
00:12:47an industrial zone,
00:12:50there was a river port, there is a power plant, there was
00:12:53transshipment, there were some warehouse territories, and so,
00:12:57today there is an active transformation of this territory into a public space,
00:13:01here the topic of renovation is also actively
00:13:04sounding here, in our former industrial territory today an embankment
00:13:08appears, a museum of locomotives appears there, public
00:13:12buildings are now being designed, we want to connect
00:13:14today the city center and the park zone with
00:13:18the fortress within walking distance, so that it would be a
00:13:22single network, further if we talk about...
00:14:25life, they were actively then introduced
00:14:28in cities, in Soviet cities,
00:14:32but I think the time has come when
00:14:35it's worth turning to
00:14:37people,
00:14:40I would really like to emphasize that you really have such
00:14:44a human-centered approach, there is generally a lot of vitality in the projects that
00:14:47you develop, it's clear that this
00:14:51slogan "everything for people," yes, can be slightly
00:14:54rethought. If we talk about micro-districts,
00:14:58even the sleeping areas, people would
00:15:01still want to talk about how in our area they don't call, but
00:15:05they do call, rephrasing the classic and so on, but nevertheless there is a demand
00:15:08for such a well-thought-out ecosystem, that I live in my area,
00:15:12here is my house, here is my shop, here I have a playground,
00:15:16parking, and some other things, maybe we'll analyze them with
00:15:19you using concrete examples, but if we talk about the initial
00:15:23Soviet period, this is... modernism - this is
00:15:27rigid functional zoning, home, work, home,
00:15:30uh, two places, so, a third
00:15:34appears, now we are talking about, yes, about a humane
00:15:37approach, when a third place appears, a public space,
00:15:41when there is a home, work, and there is a third place where we can
00:15:44relax or meet or after work, so
00:15:48do sports, so today's trends are not rigid
00:15:51functional zoning, but a mix of all territories, all zones, and
00:15:55not to make this monounction of this sleeping bag,
00:15:59of this sleeping micro-district, which also creates
00:16:02pendulum migration, so the idea of identity was
00:16:06proposed, each...
00:17:07we tried to play with the number of floors, to lower the number of floors, so that it
00:17:11would be a building of variable number of floors, and here
00:17:14also Brezhestroy, our house-building plant came
00:17:17forward and developed specialized
00:17:20series of corner sections, so that it would be possible to form block
00:17:24development and such city houses, single-entrance
00:17:28buildings, towers also, so that there was
00:17:30variability, mhm, and industrial
00:17:33housing construction has many advantages, but...
00:18:07This is a whole quest and they couldn't cope with this issue for a long time, and
00:18:11well, where did they start? They started building ramps, we had complaints,
00:18:14you know, from residents, that kids gather on the ramp
00:18:18of the first floor watching TV, you know, in the kitchen on the first
00:18:22floor,
00:18:25yes, it was just necessary to rework the sections to make, you know, an
00:18:28additional opportunity for the elevator to go half a floor
00:18:32lower to zero from, you know, with the entrance,
00:18:36we solved the problem here...
00:19:08You cannot take exact copies or tracings from
00:19:12examples, I don't know, from European or Asian ones, my
00:19:16approach is that we need to create more
00:19:19transport bypasses around the city, transport corridors, where
00:19:23you can quickly get from one place to another with
00:19:26noise barriers, such high-speed highways, and
00:19:29the city center, of course, should give priority to pedestrians,
00:19:32cyclists, but the idea is to get from one
00:19:35area to another through green.
00:19:46you leave your yard and drive to work through the park.
00:19:50Well, that's a great story, actually, and with a picturesque view. And I
00:19:53believe it's very important here, probably, to correct some programs
00:19:57that we have today in the Ministry of Architecture, Construction, when we
00:20:01measure our growth only by
00:20:04quantitative indicators, when we measure in square meters and kilometers.
00:20:22will these roads solve the problems of city connectivity,
00:20:25therefore today there are not enough qualitative criteria in
00:20:28evaluating
00:20:29the work
00:20:32of the city authorities, there are even indicators for our neighbors, yes,
00:20:35they work according to such a principle...
00:20:50Institutes of Happiness. Russia today also
00:20:53at an accelerated pace developed a matrix
00:20:57of qualitative indicators for urban areas, that is,
00:21:00six indicators vertically, six horizontally
00:21:04for different spaces, different indicators, both safety and
00:21:07comfort, there is landscaping, and it is possible
00:21:10to make an assessment for the city authorities not only in terms of
00:21:14the implementation of these square meters, how much better your city
00:21:17has become, because if the city becomes...
00:21:28we are very smoothly moving to the block called "ideas", here of course I cannot help but recall and start
00:21:32this block with your quote, that cities are generally
00:21:35like people, yes, they are all different and each must have its own
00:21:39highlight, and we are finally approaching your very
00:21:42responsible mission, which you now probably occupy all your not
00:21:45only working, but also free time, this is the development of small towns.
00:21:49Let's discuss Mikashevichi as an example, let's
00:21:53approach it unusually, what is the highlight of Mikashevichi? The
00:21:56year before last we held - Dozhinki in
00:21:59the city, and what makes
00:22:03Mikashevichi special is that it's a monotown, the city
00:22:06has a specialized enterprise, it's granite, which
00:22:10mines this large quarry next to the city,
00:22:13sized, imagine, a pit the size of a city, where there are waterfalls, so
00:22:17uh. separate excursions, tourists come, this is such an industrial
00:22:21tourism, to see, here we will meet them, we are waiting for them with
00:22:24an architectural solution, when the task was, for example, for Dozhinki to make
00:22:28a concept of the city, streets, what did we take as a basis,
00:22:31we took this granite stone, of which they have a lot,
00:22:35they, of course, are all tired of this granite, but when
00:22:38tourists come, they are interested to see, and we made
00:22:41small architectural forms, we made gabions, benches, further there
00:22:45construction equipment on so on the ends of buildings, this
00:22:48industrial, the industry of this city, it
00:22:52well, as if designates it, that
00:22:55this is a unique city, and this is not Kobrin, this
00:22:58is not Pinsk, this is Mikashevichi, they
00:23:01are recognizable, wherever you take a photo, so,
00:23:05значит,
00:23:08the residents and administration also initially didn't understand, they were tired of these
00:23:11stones, but when we did it, the theme
00:23:15was liked, we made a park, we made these ends of facades,
00:23:18we landscaped it.
00:24:12so that every city thinks about what makes it special, so, if we talk about Pinsk, it's historical buildings,
00:24:15a unique environment, a pedestrian street, and Pinsk is generally the capital
00:24:19of Polesie,
00:24:50between Luninets and Stolin, and today we are also
00:24:53discussing how this territory, where there used to be a ferry,
00:24:57a ferry crossing over the Pripyat, that it could be a point of
00:25:00attraction, where the administration of the reserve, where there can
00:25:03be eco-trails, where there can be farmsteads, such a, well,
00:25:07also a unique place, which will be interesting for tourists, well,
00:25:10and you really went further, this is not just us discussing
00:25:13with you, for our viewers, I explain, you really have now given
00:25:17an instruction to develop a design code for each?
00:25:21Yes, we waited a long time for when the cities
00:25:24themselves, so, would take the initiative, would intercept it, yes,
00:25:27would intercept it, but we realized that the city administrations are used
00:25:31to being told what to do, and we unobtrusively
00:25:34pointed it out, signed by the deputy governor,
00:25:38so, sent out letters that all
00:25:40cities should develop their own design code, submit it to
00:25:44the urban planning council, consider it by the beginning of
00:25:47next year, approve it, that is. a single
00:25:50concept for the city, the central part of the city, how
00:25:54advertising will be placed, what will be on the signs, what
00:25:57will be on, so, on the showcases, maybe some small architectural
00:26:01forms and...
00:27:02Yes, and even in Brest, when Russians come, they say: "It's great,
00:27:05we are ready to live here,
00:27:08rent housing, it's inexpensive here, it's comfortable
00:27:11to work, the Internet allows it, there are good people here, all
00:27:14conditions are here," and we, well, these are human resources, we can
00:27:18develop industry, 100% important,
00:27:21important element, and we can develop a creative
00:27:25economy and invite in this way, this is also
00:27:28a quality environment, it is a driver of urban development and a driver
00:27:32of economic development,
00:27:34underestimated.
00:27:38Well, what, in your opinion, somewhat hinders us from doing it fully?
00:27:42We talked about Pinsk, that's also an interesting story, yes. I believe that
00:27:45at the level of state policy, perhaps, more attention should be paid
00:27:48to urban planning and urbanism, and
00:27:50I will even give an example
00:27:54of the urban forum that took place in Baku, where
00:27:57188 countries participated, Belarus included, by the way.
00:28:01Беларусь в том числе, кстати.
00:29:03public administration and so on, but the block of urban planning,
00:29:06urbanism, of course, should be there, probably, well, more
00:29:09serious and expanded, so that the head of the city administration
00:29:13would more clearly understand what urban planning documentation is, what
00:29:17regulations are, what a detailed plan is, what a strategy
00:29:20is, and how, in general, the interaction between
00:29:24the resident and the city administration is built, how
00:29:27to build this dialogue, because these are all such subtle
00:29:30settings, subtle...
00:30:32what is planned here, why it is necessary to densify
00:30:36the city, that it is not to its detriment, but that
00:30:38the mayor's task is to make the city
00:30:41effective, that this action has a certain meaning, I would even honestly say I would act
00:30:45without intermediaries, I would say that it is exactly what, you know, there is a meme that says, it
00:30:49is necessary for your mom, your dad, you, in general, urban planning is necessary for everyone, it's like
00:30:53about a doctor, you don't sometimes discuss whether it is worth doing
00:30:57an operation with a doctor or not, he says we need to cut,
00:31:01надо резать,
00:31:13And generally, what risks does an architect take? This name, reputation, of course,
00:31:17is at stake, this is important to you, that somewhere under the project
00:31:20it says Nikolai Vlasyuk, just like that, so that you know, not to fall flat on your face, of course, in
00:31:24your hometown, this reputational
00:31:27component is very important, and there are different approaches in the world,
00:31:31as it were, the Soviet approach was that the chief architect of the city,
00:31:35he could cross out a project that was brought to him and
00:31:38say: "Here you need to draw a different facade, I don't
00:31:41like it," his subjective opinion could...
00:31:45prevail, let's see how it was, for example, there, I don't know, in the same
00:31:48Europe, imagine that Sir Norman Foster comes to
00:31:52the chief architect there of London, with
00:31:55his, so, there, uh, building in the form of a gherkin
00:31:58or there with some exclusive interesting architecture,
00:32:02and the chief architect tells him, "You know what, I don't like the window spacing
00:32:05you have drawn here," or different materials, this is a completely
00:32:08different story, here the architect himself
00:32:11is responsible, the one who designs the volume architect. The
00:32:15volume architect, he is responsible
00:32:19with his reputation, his name for what he designs, in principle for Belarus this
00:32:23is a possible option, and today we are at such a transitional
00:32:26stage, either we will move to the fact that author's
00:32:29architecture and author's intent will be responsible
00:32:32for the one who designs, then I vote
00:32:36with both hands for us to write
00:32:38the authorship of the architect who designed this
00:32:41building, we will not have faceless buildings, because a rare
00:34:15plan, and it is clear and publicly available, it is in open
00:34:18access, so most likely,
00:34:21we need to take all the best, identify
00:34:24the potential of our small towns, our regional centers, in order
00:34:28for each of our cities to have its own peculiarities, to be
00:34:31comfortable and attractive. Here's a question that came to my mind, imagine,
00:34:35it's clear that you have something to work on every day, but then the year
00:34:392050 comes, when we understand that this strategy,
00:34:42yes, or rather, the concept developed
00:34:45by you, has been implemented, God grant, so it will be, you
00:34:48walk, for example, along Sovetskaya Street, Brest,
00:34:52what do you feel at that moment? And this is in
00:34:56the vision, the strategy has a vision, it is described in principle quite in detail
00:35:00what I feel when I walk around the city
00:35:03in 30 years, I walk around
00:35:06a comfortable city, where the city is pedestrian, where there are many
00:35:10terraces, where there is fresh air, where there is the smell
00:35:13of phytoncides, so... from coniferous trees that
00:35:17grow in this city, people do sports,
00:35:20people fewer clinics, people more
00:35:23running, riding bicycles,
00:35:27here there is an opportunity, if we talk about
00:35:30a creative city - it's a city that gives people
00:35:33the opportunity to develop and be
00:35:35needed, there are some separate topics, there are growth points,
00:35:39economy, there is a green framework, residential quarters, we can
00:35:43go into details, but in... in general, these are cities
00:35:47that help residents
00:35:49realize their potential, have this vital potential, you are absolutely right,
00:35:53cities where you want to live, and you know, on July 28th,
00:35:56Brest had another birthday, we also congratulate you on
00:36:00that, because you have a direct connection, as a Brest resident in the third generation,
00:36:03a representative of a very famous architectural dynasty, allow us to
00:36:07congratulate you, well, to wish that this
00:36:10beautiful, not a myth, this very
00:36:13project will be fully implemented, so that you
00:36:16will be satisfied, so that the author of this concept, well, and
00:36:20the residents too, but you know, if you are satisfied, then the residents will be too.
00:36:24satisfied, thank you very much for this conversation. We thank you, we wish
00:36:28you success in your difficult but very important work.
00:36:31Thank you, thank you. Today we made sure that a modern city is not
00:36:35just square meters, it is a living organism, where a smart approach turns
00:36:39technologies into comfort, and the concept of a garden city protects
00:36:42our ecology. But the main thing is balance, which is impossible
00:36:46without a person. It is the creative energy of residents that turns modern
00:36:49spaces into centers of creative economies that move
00:36:53our cities forward. Design your future wisely
00:36:56and see you on air.
00:37:29worked as director of the auxiliary boarding school for 13
00:37:33years, here I understood
00:37:36a lot, as a leader, as
00:37:38a person, and how
00:37:41important it is to have a good,
00:37:44able-bodied team, and
00:37:47it's good that
00:37:51based on what you created over a certain
00:41:02expand the powers of its special services. The essence
00:41:05of the legislative changes: German special services want to be allowed
00:41:09to recruit children, in essence, to issue a license to kill. All
00:41:12this is justified, of course, by the threat from the Russians, who,
00:41:16as is known, are not going to attack. German
00:41:19special services will be able, for example, to legally and purposefully
00:41:22spread disinformation or disrupt operations.
00:41:26not only conduct reconnaissance, but
00:41:32intervene in cases of special threats, especially in
00:41:35cyberspace. In case of threats requiring
00:41:38significant surveillance, special services will be allowed
00:41:41to access IT systems, and the use
00:41:44of state Trojan programs for online searches
00:41:47and monitoring telecommunications at the source will be newly
00:41:51regulated. In case of a specific threat, the BND allows expanded
00:41:55intelligence measures against a foreign power, essentially issuing
00:41:59a license to kill. Examples of such measures include sabotage at
00:42:03Russian drone production facilities, where BND
00:42:06agents may be given the right to resort to lethal means.
00:42:10Tolerance, restraint, and compliance are regarded by our
00:42:13opponents as weakness, - said the head of the BND, Jäger, to the
00:42:17deputies. He implied intolerance.
00:42:20German special services also want to be allowed to use
00:42:24even sixteen-year-old teenagers as paid informants. It became
00:42:27known a couple of years ago that Germany is preparing children for
00:42:31intelligence and war. It was written then in a Spanish newspaper
00:42:34that the younger generation of Germans would be attracted to serve
00:42:37in the BND, noting that the agency has roots
00:42:41and therefore the BND finds it difficult to recruit effective, educated
00:42:44young people into its ranks. The same article quotes the
00:42:48Minister of Education as saying that German youth
00:42:51should be better prepared for the possibility of war. Other EU
00:42:55countries, the publication writes, have good experience in conducting
00:42:58such classes, and the authorities of the Federal Republic of Germany want a greater
00:43:02military 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
00:43:10spies." and so on, and, of course, constant calls to the youth of EU
00:43:14countries to prepare for war to preserve
00:43:16peace on the continent. This is how the fascists acted
00:43:20in the Great Patriotic War, they used children as weapons. For example,
00:43:23they made saboteurs out of Soviet children. In the declassified FSB
00:43:27archives there is a lot of information about how the Nazis prepared the
00:43:30same homeless children for intelligence and sabotage behind the lines of the
00:43:33Red Army. For this purpose, even seven-year-old children were used.
00:43:37German special services created intelligence schools in
00:43:40occupied territories disguised as orphanages in Germany. In a memo dated
00:43:44December 25, 1941, the head of the special department
00:43:47of the Southwestern Front, Selivanovsky, reported to Deputy People's Commissar
00:43:51of Internal Affairs of the USSR, Abakumov, about two identified schools
00:43:54for underage scouts. They were organized by German
00:43:57intelligence in Bobruisk and the village of Protopopovka, Kharkov
00:44:01region. In the area where units of the thirty-fourth cavalry division
00:44:04were located, in early December 1941, military counterintelligence
00:44:08officers detained three
00:44:40children. The nine-year-old was taught reconnaissance work, taught
00:44:43to draw a plan of the location of firing points, headquarters, guns,
00:44:46tanks, machine guns, vehicles, cavalry, taught topography,
00:44:50parachuting, handling weapons, grenades, mining railway
00:44:54lines, as in other schools for underage scouts, as the
00:44:57arrested revealed, their task was to blow up railways, for
00:45:00which the saboteurs were supplied with explosives of a special composition
00:45:03externally similar to pieces of coal. The fate of
00:45:07children, as declassified documents show, did not
00:45:10interest the fascists, "Throw out 100 agents, let two of them
00:45:14complete the task, and that's good," said
00:45:16the fascists. Now again the Germans are essentially following
00:45:19the same path. Do you also have the feeling that the German
00:45:23government cares less and less about the rights and freedoms of even its own
00:45:26citizens? The return of the Gestapo to modern Germany seems to be only
00:45:30a matter
00:45:31of time.
00:48:27The Middle East is ablaze again,
00:48:30our country is prospering and we will soon defeat Iran, we will defeat
00:48:34them any day now and life will be even better.
00:48:37Americans continue to relentlessly turn war into
00:48:40a business enterprise, in which the main profit must
00:48:43exceed costs. In Germany, a scandal is brewing that could
00:48:47overturn the perception of the country as a bastion of civil
00:48:51liberties.
00:49:05and digital platforms will be obliged to cooperate with intelligence under threat of multi-million dollar fines. In
00:49:08the EU, a digital revolution is brewing, which could forever
00:49:12change the European Internet. Today's
00:49:15European Union, which for decades taught the world about human rights and
00:49:18the inviolability of private life, is building
00:49:21an instruction for total surveillance with enviable methodicalness. Every EU citizen
00:49:25will receive a digital wallet linked to biometrics, bank
00:49:29accounts, medical data, and of course,
00:49:31Internet activity. In practice, this means that any
00:49:35online step, from buying a ticket to a comment under a news story, will
00:49:38be linked to a specific person and stored in a single
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