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00:00:00make a normal flax factory, did it turn out
00:00:02to make the Slutsk flax factory normal, and how the enterprise
00:00:06works today, we will show right
00:00:08now.
00:00:16The old house is really a thing of the past. A neat territory
00:00:19is what production culture begins with, not just on the site itself.
00:00:23It's important what's in the fields. Well, you
00:00:26harvest them yourselves, as I understand it. These fields are not only in the Slutsk district,
00:00:30throughout the region. Well, the raw material zone of our enterprise is located in four districts of the Minsk
00:00:34region. These are the Slutsk district, Kopyl district, Soligorsk district and Lyuban
00:00:38district. As I said, the harvesting area is
00:00:414,507 hectares.
00:00:44In the main, we try, of course, to harvest
00:00:48as much as possible ourselves, but we receive help and support
00:00:51from the farms in our raw material zone. Equipment and
00:00:55people are allocated. This year, under the regional budget program,
00:00:59about 50 specialized trailers
00:01:02for transporting rolls, as well as
00:01:05balers, and also new
00:01:08new tractors were purchased for the Minsk region, and they
00:01:12work on farms. When the harvesting season begins, harvesting
00:01:15activities begin in our raw material zone, this equipment
00:01:19is brought in to assist our factory. Such
00:01:22mutual assistance helps solve another urgent problem for
00:01:26the enterprise: to meet the harvesting deadlines? Yes, this year.
00:02:14which again made it difficult to harvest it later. It must be said that the problems here are typical
00:02:18for the region as a whole. The Slutsk factory understands them and is ready
00:02:21to correct the situation, especially since the enterprise has taken a course
00:02:25for active development. Now they are engaged in their production
00:02:28site in Lyubon. At this enterprise, jointly
00:02:32with the Chinese side, we
00:02:36have installed lines for the production of cottonized fiber,
00:02:40in the future, so that this will
00:02:43allow us to process
00:02:45the existing flax straw more quickly,
00:02:49to obtain cottonized flax fiber, that is,
00:02:53position of Belarus as one of we are, as it were, expanding the range of processing, yes, flax factories fulfill state orders,
00:02:57but they still operate in modern market conditions, where
00:03:01every ruble earned is an investment that needs to be
00:03:04invested in production and the well-being of their
00:03:07teams. Separate enterprises in the industry
00:03:10have carried out modernization of production, which
00:03:14has allowed to increase the quality of flax
00:03:17fiber, the assortment and volumes of manufactured
00:03:21products. At the same time, this situation is not in all enterprises. In
00:03:25some flax factories, equipment is worn out,
00:03:28modernization deadlines are delayed, and accordingly,
00:03:32the quality and volume of flax fiber production
00:03:35suffer, including long fiber, which is most in demand. This
00:03:39year, the committee identified problematic issues
00:03:42of flax cultivation. For example, some flax factories delayed
00:03:46sowing by more than
00:03:49already begun to fulfill its part of 20 days instead of the prescribed 10 days according to the technical regulations.
00:03:53Untimely preparation of equipment for
00:03:56flax pulling led to the fact that these works
00:04:00were delayed. The retting periods
00:04:03for flax straw were increased, as a result of which its quality
00:04:07indicators decreased. We continue to study the situation in
00:04:10different regions. Brekhchina is
00:04:12next.
00:04:21We arrived in Lyakhovichi, a local flax factory that, five years ago,
00:04:25was operating at a loss and was looking for ways out of the difficult
00:04:28situation. They decided to completely
00:04:30restart operations with an emphasis on economic
00:04:33efficiency. They focused again on waste-free
00:04:36production. We have already talked about fuel from shives using the example
00:04:40of other enterprises, but here they found something new. In
00:04:442022, we
00:04:46purchased a press for oil production.
00:04:50The byproduct, the so-called
00:04:52oilseed cake or meal, whatever you want
00:04:56to call it, but these are additional funds, let's say, for...
00:05:42technology research at all stages, starting from the field:
00:05:45fertilizers, equipment, everything is selected by themselves.
00:05:49Interchanges of suitable areas that occur with
00:05:53agricultural enterprises showed another
00:05:56efficiency, for example, any
00:05:58agricultural enterprise after flax
00:06:02gladly takes this territory, because the fertilizers
00:06:05and microelements that the flax
00:06:09factory invests are enough for another 2 years for this enterprise.
00:06:12That's all. Today the flax factory operates with a net
00:06:15profit. In 9 months, this is 6 million rubles. The staff
00:06:19consists of 200 people, and there is enough work for everyone.
00:06:2312 tons of tri-stuff have been prepared, which is enough for the entire
00:06:26season. By the way, part of the raw materials will go to the new
00:06:29line. Here we see fiber, very pleasant to the
00:06:32touch, obtained with the help of this new line, which we see. What
00:06:36is the benefit of it and what is this fiber for? In
00:06:392024, thanks to the program.
00:07:42The launch of the new line was coordinated personally by the chief engineer, Anton
00:07:46Maslovsky, who is only 30 years old, but he considers his main achievement
00:07:50not even a high position, but his family, which is already large,
00:07:54by the way. His wife is currently on maternity leave with their third child. Nevertheless,
00:07:57the team is also a family, and the factory is like a second home, and
00:08:01the weather in it is in good hands. Is there
00:08:04generally a future for the industry, why is it important to deal with flax,
00:08:08not to abandon this business? Of course, the flax industry is
00:08:42technologies, discipline, and behind them economic
00:08:45successes. Flax is a symbol of Belarus, a strong
00:08:49brand, behind which is the daily work of huge teams in all
00:08:53regions of the country.
00:09:23For me, Belarus is clean, open,
00:09:27decent.
00:09:34I have two homelands. We all say that when we come,
00:09:37we say goodbye and say, we have two homelands, Belarus and
00:09:40Kazakhstan, but we have one heart.
00:10:12I
00:10:12like it.
00:10:17What is Belarus for me? Blue-eyed,
00:10:20cloud-covered, full of lakes, and I want
00:10:23to say, my homeland.
00:10:56Belarus is always open to cooperation with Russian
00:11:00regions. Today, cooperation within the Union framework was
00:11:03discussed at the Palace of Independence. Our President held
00:11:06a meeting with the head of the Altai Republic, Andrey Charykov. The
00:11:10main areas of development here are tourism and
00:11:13agriculture. They agreed to explore the possibility of
00:11:16establishing direct air service
00:11:18between Minsk.
00:11:20We are in first place in this enormous Eurasian
00:11:24region.
00:12:25The Republic of Belarus has extensive expertise in the
00:12:28sanatorium and resort industry. We have agreed
00:12:32that our country will select the appropriate sites for building a
00:12:35sanatorium on the territory of our mountainous
00:12:38republic. The government discussed the areas of
00:12:42cooperation in more detail. A meeting of the working group on
00:12:45cooperation between Belarus and
00:12:48the Republic.
00:12:52The strategic partnership between Belarus and now allows us to
00:12:56move from basic trade in goods to full-fledged cooperation. During
00:13:00the official visit, Minister of Foreign Affairs
00:13:02Maxim Rybakov gave interviews to a number of
00:13:06Vietnamese media. Joint work opens up new opportunities
00:13:10for Minsk and Hanoi, including ones for the promotion of goods on
00:13:13the markets of third countries. Using our
00:13:18the industrial centers of the Eurasian Economic Union, we
00:13:22should promote there some interesting topics that
00:13:25are important for Vietnam, promote such products that we
00:13:28are promoting in Belarus together with Vietnam, given that in this
00:13:32case, Belarus will be the gateway for Vietnamese
00:13:35goods. At the same time, Vietnam is very important to
00:13:39us, not only from the point of view of the market, a huge
00:13:43market, a market of 100 million, but
00:13:46also as our gateway to Southeast
00:13:49Asia.
00:13:55During the humanitarian operation in the frontline town of
00:13:58Olesky in Kherson direction, a plane carrying the
00:14:01Russian delegation arrived at the Gomel airport, and the Ukrainian
00:14:05delegation arrived in Nova Huta. Belarus will become the
00:14:08first starting point for major international protests and has
00:14:14the obligation under the previously researched agreements to facilitate a
00:14:18humanitarian operation. The Russian and Ukrainian sides, with the
00:14:22mediation of the United States, reached an agreement on
00:14:42the first Minsk agreements, the second ones. Meetings are constantly held on the
00:14:46territory of Belarus, and they end with positive humanitarian
00:14:49initiatives, including the exchange of prisoners of
00:14:52war.
00:14:56The exchange of experience in the field of radioecological monitoring
00:15:00and management of territories with elevated radiation background
00:15:04between Polesie State Radiation and Ecological Reserve and the
00:15:07Ural State Reserve will reach a new level. Polesie State
00:15:11Radiation and Ecological Reserve and the leading enterprise of Russia's
00:15:15nuclear weapons complex, Mayak Production Association, signed a
00:15:18memorandum of cooperation within the framework of the 30th Belarusian
00:15:22Energy Forum. Both reserves are unique nuclear
00:15:25heritage sites. The document is intended to lay the foundation for
00:15:29joint research activities in the nuclear heritage
00:15:31territories.
00:15:36Intensification of regional trade and economic cooperation as a
00:15:39factor in strengthening relations between the two countries. Belarus and
00:15:43Uzbekistan are finding new ways of beneficial cooperation.
00:15:47This is primarily trade and creation of joint ventures.
00:15:51Representatives of the Minsk and Fergana oblasts signed nine
00:15:54agreements totaling about $20 million dollars during a large-scale
00:15:58business forum that brought together hundreds of business
00:16:01representatives.
00:16:03The main areas, of course, are agriculture,
00:16:07healthcare, and pharmaceuticals. Our
00:16:10delegation currently includes more than 50
00:16:14representatives who are working with their counterparts
00:16:17and developing new areas of
00:16:19cooperation.
00:18:02snails as an environmentally friendly and healthy product
00:18:06of the future. Grapes are quite a unique crop, it's not
00:18:10for nothing that this plant is one of the very first and one
00:18:14of the few mentioned in the Bible.
00:18:16Библии,
00:18:19Not only the berries
00:18:22are used from grapes. The seeds are used in cosmetics,
00:18:25perfumery, food, and for oil production, in
00:18:29confectionery.
00:18:31Senior researcher, curator of the grape collection at
00:18:34the Institute of Fruit Growing at the Academy of Sciences.
00:18:37Project One Day. Watch on
00:18:40Belarus 24 TV channel.
00:19:57My authority was confirmed by my voters when I became a deputy.
00:20:01People say that deputies drive Mercedes with flashing lights
00:20:05and have a dacha in Drozdakh. This is not a political show,
00:20:08but we have normal, systematic work
00:20:11in parliament. But we should not turn the army into some
00:20:15sanatorium. There should be no
00:20:18excesses in the armed forces. If young people are like that, it's not their
00:20:22fault, it's our fault. They need to be educated. When I
00:20:25recall the events of 2020 and the statements of Mr.
00:20:29Macron, yes, there about democratic
00:20:32approaches, about free expression
00:20:34of will,
00:20:37unacceptability. All of this, his phrases from 2020, just pop into my head.
00:20:40What do I think? I gloat, but there is
00:20:44a significant difference: our protests were organized
00:20:47from outside, and their protests are
00:20:51protests of their own people and from within. It doesn't matter where
00:20:55this drone flies and it doesn't matter from which side
00:20:58people die,
00:21:00from one or the other. It's
00:21:04truly a tragedy. The only place on
00:21:06earth where you will feel safe is your homeland.
00:21:28Hello, you are watching the program "Don't Be Silent." In the studio are Victoria Popova and
00:21:31Tatyana Shcherbina. And today our guest is deputy and
00:21:34colonel Ruslan Shkodin. Good afternoon, Ruslan
00:21:38Nikolaevich. We will debunk myths.
00:21:40People say that deputies drive Mercedes with flashing lights
00:21:44and have a dacha in Drozdakh. Have you already acquired
00:21:47a dacha in Drozdakh, that is, you immediately. Oh,
00:21:53how does a normal person react to stupidity? We
00:21:56probably encounter some... everyone probably
00:22:00encounters ordinary human
00:22:03stupidity, when a person
00:22:05does not
00:22:07think about anything, just repeats a phrase that he heard somewhere, sometime,
00:22:10or some established narrative, not attaching
00:22:14importance to it. So I usually treat it
00:22:17with humor. Thank God, every day... such questions are not
00:22:20asked. My neighbors, who see me in the entrance, in the house,
00:22:24who see where I live, what I drive, that is, they don't ask
00:22:28me such questions every day. But the fact is that all deputies
00:22:31work in electoral districts, meet on a regular
00:22:35basis, often with collectives, with people,
00:22:39somewhere when monitoring prices, in stores
00:22:42they talk to people, so there, at least me, and others,
00:22:46let's say, we communicate with each other, and others...
00:23:50and back in 2 and a half years. So when you see a car once,
00:23:54yes, I saw a car once. Well, I don't even know how many there are,
00:23:58three or four mobile ones. All 110 people use them,
00:24:01all 110 deputies. As
00:24:04for the dacha,
00:24:07well, deputies didn't grow up as deputies. They came from
00:24:11all over the republic. People worked in different positions,
00:24:15they had a different status. I don't know, honestly
00:24:18speaking, well, I'm just not interested. Maybe someone
00:24:21else from a previous job might
00:24:24have a dacha in Drozdakh. I don't know, maybe someone earned enough money to
00:24:28build one there. But the fact that deputies are not given dachas in
00:24:32Drozdakh is 100% certain.
00:24:34What is true, yes, all deputies
00:24:38are given the opportunity to get rental
00:24:41housing, rental for the period of your
00:24:45deputyship. That is, well, rental housing is provided to military personnel,
00:24:49doctors, and in many... spheres of activity, that is, on general terms
00:24:52for a fee, accordingly, it is provided.
00:24:55If a deputy has such a need, then he is
00:24:58provided with, after completing the relevant documents,
00:25:02really rental housing - yes,
00:25:05that exists. And what officer skills turned out to be most useful
00:25:09to you in parliamentary work? Discipline,
00:25:12the ability to command or obey? So you will answer for me right
00:25:15away? I'm sketching an answer, offering
00:25:19options. Yes, of course, discipline,
00:25:23discipline, well, it can be, discipline is such an all-encompassing
00:25:26word, right? Our president often talks about discipline,
00:25:30discipline in production, personal discipline,
00:25:34some kind of social
00:25:37discipline, discipline towards oneself, right? Discipline
00:25:41can be broken down further into responsibility,
00:25:44the ability to complete tasks. So if
00:25:48you take it in one word, it's discipline.
00:25:50Of course, I, like any
00:25:53officer, worked with people all my life,
00:25:57or rather, like most officers, I worked with people. I was
00:25:5917 and a half years old when...
00:26:32battalion or in my case, the detachment. That is,
00:26:36but your task is to unite all these different people
00:26:39with one goal, besides training, right, and so
00:26:43that all people with different thoughts, with different
00:26:46characters, with different worldviews, you
00:26:49must teach them, train them and bring them to
00:26:53such a state that they must perform one task, as
00:26:57a single whole, as a unit. This is
00:26:59probably called communication in civilian
00:27:02life, right? Well, look, you have a hierarchy, you
00:27:06are the commander. Well, in general, orders are not discussed. But I'm
00:27:10interested in how people react when a deputy comes to them with a problem,
00:27:14right? We saw the photos just now, or when a question is being discussed, how do they
00:27:17treat you as a representative of authority, or differently? Well,
00:27:21let's say, I came to communication, right? That is, working
00:27:24with people, uh-huh, bringing them to one goal, that means
00:27:27communicating with people, and here
00:27:30it's basically the same. You
00:27:32sit, right? You have a unit, a commander. Here are your
00:27:36voters, or vice versa, you come to
00:27:39a team. Not everyone voted for you, you understand that perfectly well.
00:27:42Someone, that is, someone voted for you, for example.
00:27:46It's quite possible that someone voted, not just quite
00:27:49possible, but 100% that someone
00:27:52in this team voted for another candidate. But
00:27:56at the moment you are elected, it doesn't matter, you must take into
00:27:59account the opinion of
00:28:03those people who voted for you, and those
00:28:06who did not vote for you.
00:28:09Honesty and openness are probably the most important qualities,
00:28:12and not to give people any
00:28:15inflated expectations, because sometimes,
00:28:18let's say, in life I came across such
00:28:20bosses, such commanders, who would say,
00:28:24we will do everything, we will solve everything, this is our, this American
00:28:28foolish, excuse me, phrase, this is our job, or something
00:28:31like that, right? Well, and people believed and went. You must
00:28:35clearly tell people, this we will try, this
00:28:38we will do, this we will try to solve,
00:28:41and I cannot tell you about the result, because it does not
00:28:45depend on me. This is for the future, well, and so on. That is,
00:28:48people should understand clearly, probably,
00:28:51well, in my case, how many I practically
00:28:55traveled, well, not practically, I traveled all the large enterprises. Now
00:28:58I have reached enterprises, I meet with
00:29:01teams, literally small ones, for example, the last one
00:29:05was a furniture production, where only, well, only
00:29:0910 people work on furniture assembly. So I already, and so every deputy in
00:29:12principle, I didn't have any major difficulties
00:29:16in communicating with people. You just have to tell
00:29:19people, well, the truth, what you can do, what
00:29:22we will do. And whether
00:29:25it will play negatively on your image
00:29:28or not, you said that we will approach this today even...
00:30:02who achieved good
00:30:05results in previous activities, and those people in whom
00:30:09collectives believed, because as a rule, these are professionals in their
00:30:12field. But in
00:30:15the parliamentary field, that is, we have a team,
00:30:18but you understand, there are solutions to questions. In
00:30:21solving questions, each deputy has
00:30:25his own opinion, personal, an opinion that he brought
00:30:29from his region, from his electoral district.
00:31:02It all depends on how
00:31:06much
00:31:08you are supported by others, or how much, well, in the West, it's called factions. You brought
00:31:12an idea and...
00:31:45public opinion is always studied by deputies,
00:31:49and this symbiosis, it boils, it boils, everyone proves something, we come
00:31:53to something, somewhere it works immediately,
00:31:57for example, from the first, from the second meeting, and
00:32:01somewhere there are very long processes, for example,
00:32:04disputes can last 7-8 months and so on. We are told that
00:32:08sometimes that we don't see on TV, you just sit there and
00:32:12accept. The fact is that...
00:32:45preparation is underway, meaning the hostess invited
00:32:48guests, she is preparing something, right? She has
00:32:52a creative mess in her kitchen, she peeled onions here,
00:32:55here, here, here, stained apron and so on and so
00:32:58forth, right? That's the work. But then she
00:33:02put everything on the table, beautifully set, went,
00:33:05dressed up, put on makeup, made herself presentable, and she meets guests not
00:33:09in a floury apron, right? Beautifully. That's how
00:33:12all this work happens. In committees,
00:33:16and people ask such questions, why don't we see you, they want to see you argue,
00:33:20throw mud at each other.
00:33:23You know better than I do what people need.
00:33:26Well, you, I always compare it to a news story about a bridge. What would be more interesting to people,
00:33:30a news story: we built a good, beautiful bridge. Built, well, beautiful, they will
00:33:33definitely find a bunch of shortcomings in the comments, or the bridge
00:33:37collapsed. Well, you're a journalist, you understand what kind of news it is. So
00:33:41here, of course, they are interested in how somewhere in Russia or in America, when...
00:34:15Ruslan Nikolaevich, a short question and a short answer: do you have
00:34:19enough authority as a deputy, as you
00:34:22think? My authority was confirmed by my voters when I
00:34:25became a deputy. That's it. And I, with a
00:34:29clear conscience, when I stand before
00:34:32the collective, I can say that,
00:34:35friends, yes, I don't hide my gaze, I wasn't appointed
00:34:39here, not sent here, this is an elected position.
00:34:4373%, I think. I had
00:34:47votes, yes. I always go to the collective with a clear conscience.
00:34:50This strengthens me. Well, you have an outlet for the show, we don't forget
00:34:54that you are a millionaire on TikTok. Let's see
00:34:57how you continue your activities. So
00:35:18Well, tell us how it changed, I'm even interested in
00:35:21the audience from 2020. Then it was a
00:35:25block about one thing, and today it's predominantly about
00:35:29everyone serving in the army, right? Well,
00:35:33well, the audience, accordingly, also somehow changed, I think, or
00:35:37not? Here, probably, it has already gone through
00:35:40three transformations, the first after 2020,
00:35:42by the way, it was November 20th. Exactly 6 years have passed since this happened.
00:35:46channel, congratulations, damn, there's still close to a million,
00:35:49well, if we're talking about
00:35:53close to a million, but if we count the total number with Instagram and
00:35:57other likes, then in total, yes, there are a million subscribers.
00:36:01You weren't wrong.
00:36:04Well, it's amazing how you keep this audience for a hundred years. The information was
00:36:07probably threefold, right? When in 2020, I always said
00:36:11that the first thing was to clarify the political situation. The videos were humorous,
00:36:15but exactly on that topic, when the need
00:36:18disappeared, I filmed
00:36:20similar ones. This, by the way, is an old video, even
00:36:24before videos of this kind, well, still.
00:37:09Belarus, maybe in Ukraine, in Russia, abroad, with our neighbors, that
00:37:12is, I don't have a specific goal to do this, well, like
00:37:16that's it, I need to do it today, I saw a news item that interested
00:37:19me,
00:37:21I was walking to work somewhere, an idea came to me, I commented on it, roughly
00:37:25speaking, but you have to limit yourself.
00:38:27if I didn't have, I had
00:38:30a washbasin, like many in
00:38:33college who studied there in the nineties,
00:38:36until the nineties, there was normal cold water flowing and
00:38:40there was no talk of hot water at all,
00:38:43if you wanted to wash additionally besides once
00:38:46a week in the bath, there was a coiled hose in almost
00:38:50every washbasin, you would put it on this
00:38:53faucet and spray yourself with the hose, soap yourself with cold water
00:38:56and rinse off and... why am I alive, healthy, like millions
00:39:00of other men who went through this school. Now
00:39:04they have shower cabins, in barracks, washing
00:39:07machines. How did we wash? Threw it on the floor, with laundry
00:39:10soap rubbed it, took this
00:39:13floor polisher, with which they washed the floor, only, well, similar,
00:39:17right? With a floor polisher right on the floor, then drained,
00:39:20rinsed, hung it up, and sometimes even put it on myself, wet, squeezed
00:39:23it well, put on an overcoat over it and dried it that way from my own body heat.
00:39:27That's why they said then that the army is a school of life. Now the army,
00:39:31well, it shouldn't be like that either. We shouldn't stay in that,
00:39:35but I have always been a supporter, hot water should be there, I agree,
00:39:39we, well, should improve, washing
00:39:41machines should be there, all this should be, but we should not turn
00:39:44the army into some sanatorium, there should be no
00:39:48excesses in the armed forces, everything there should be strictly
00:39:52severe, for now nothing extra, just people
00:39:55who are now, there is no quiet hour.
00:39:58That's the thing, people
00:40:02of my generation and before, what I
00:40:05just told you, yes, it's just an example of how we washed and did laundry, and there are
00:40:09many such examples, well, now
00:40:12it seems that these conditions are greenhouse, that's why they call it
00:40:16kindergarten, but we cannot remain in that state, we must
00:40:19improve, oh, we must improve, but if
00:40:22we live in the forest for years, well, that is, the guys
00:40:26must have experience.
00:40:29there may not be hot water, therefore, a serviceman,
00:40:33whether an officer or a soldier, well, although when they live in field
00:40:36conditions, there is no difference, they must be
00:40:39ready for this, and how to prepare, if
00:40:43you really make it like sanatorium conditions, then when
00:40:47you have to plunge into that atmosphere, where
00:40:51you will have to overcome the hardships and deprivations of military
00:40:54service, then the soldier, the officer will simply not be ready for this. I recently
00:40:57saw a video about how in Britain zoomers, these young people,
00:41:01when they move out of their parents' house at 19-20 years old,
00:41:05they are afraid to use a washing machine, they either
00:41:08take it to their parents, or they try to wash as little as possible, and even, what do you think we
00:41:12don't have such people? Well, I also think that Britain and
00:41:16we have become equal in this zoomerism, yes, so
00:41:19here we need to somehow confidently create conditions, but within
00:41:23reasonable limits, when he walked all his life in sneakers with Velcro and doesn't know how to...
00:41:27tie his shoelaces, well, what will you do? Well, that's why
00:41:31they say that now we need to treat, and not teach, I would not
00:41:34say that we need to treat,
00:41:38the fact is that, well... Turgenev,
00:41:41a classic writer, described
00:41:45the problem of fathers and children, it
00:41:48still persists to this day, it
00:41:51was, is, and will be, that's not the point, it's a vicious circle, Ruslan
00:41:55Nikolaevich, we used to send men to the army for what, so that they would become
00:41:59men, now they go to the army, they don't become men, let's discuss
00:42:03this topic in the next part, whether they become men in the army or not,
00:42:06and for now, let's take a short break.
00:42:21"Say, Don't Be Silent" is on air again, and today our guest is Deputy of the House of Representatives,
00:42:25Colonel Ruslan Shkodin. Let's continue, you promised
00:42:28to argue that the army is not useless after all. You are
00:42:32manipulating, I didn't promise anyone anything here. You
00:42:35said you were ready to argue. Excuse me,
00:42:38I'm clarifying. Let's argue, do we lose
00:42:42a year in the army, two, or do we become
00:42:45men there? Well, we weren't talking about that, we
00:42:48were talking about the infantilism of young people. Let's finish our
00:42:52thought. So, young people are always different and always
00:42:55the same. Let's summarize, that is, what, for 10 years young people
00:42:59were different among themselves, but in principle not
00:43:03like their older generation, that now it's
00:43:06the same. It all depends on the society
00:43:10they are in, and if young people are like that, it's not their
00:43:14fault, it's our fault, you and I are
00:43:17to blame for them being like that. That's it, so don't blame young people, you need to
00:43:20work with them, and they are the same as 10, 20
00:43:24and 30 years ago for that older generation.
00:43:28Well, yes, this is the biggest danger, now we are watching
00:43:32videos, you are also a millionaire blogger and
00:43:35you know that
00:43:36somehow it wasn't?
00:44:10We need to work with everyone, there is no global problem, these people serve in
00:44:13the army, they perform tasks, participate in exercises, training,
00:44:17within the country, at the state level, they leave the
00:44:21army, grow, take up positions, we don't have a global problem
00:44:24with young people, but we must continue to work with them, well, there is
00:44:28a global problem with drones, but you somehow
00:44:30said, right, that this is today
00:44:33a serious danger, well, the question is
00:44:37how to motivate a young soldier to
00:44:40fight, if there is no countermeasure against the drone, but if you cannot
00:44:44dodge it in any way, if it, well, wait, there are always countermeasures,
00:44:48there are no hopeless situations, there is no
00:44:51100% effective counteraction
00:44:55to drones, and there are various countermeasures, that is, you can
00:44:59shoot it down with a pump-action shotgun, you can put up anti-drone
00:45:02nets, well, I won't go into that, there are countermeasures, electronic warfare
00:45:05works there, that is, there are countermeasures, but
00:45:09100%.
00:45:40drone, it was even controlled not with a joystick, but with a computer on
00:45:43a table like this, it stood there, it flew up to 3 km maximum,
00:45:47maybe even, everyone looked at it like a toy, but they
00:45:51mostly saw its use in reconnaissance, that is, a
00:45:55unit goes, a drone is sent ahead, it flies and conducts
00:45:58reconnaissance there, and now we see it's a
00:46:01striking force, and a very serious one, but along with these drones
00:46:05countermeasures are also developing, the fact that there is no
00:46:07100% effective, the president spoke about this, no one
00:46:11in the world has found it yet, but I think in principle, that in
00:46:15any case, a solution to this
00:46:17problem will be found, well, but against
00:46:21a bullet there is also a bulletproof vest, but a bullet can penetrate a bulletproof vest, if you go
00:46:25into battle with such a thought, for example, or prepare a soldier, then it's better not
00:46:29to do anything at all, so this is a weapon,
00:46:32it's a danger, that is,
00:46:35here no one will ever guarantee you that we will go
00:46:39so simply.
00:46:52To the average person, the difference between territorial defense and people's
00:46:56militia is not entirely clear. If to put it simply,
00:46:59there are armed forces, other troops and military
00:47:02formations, people are conscripted
00:47:05by mobilization, that is, he is obliged to go there.
00:47:09In territorial defense - this is the second major component, people
00:47:12are conscripted by mobilization, they are obliged to
00:47:15go there. But a person
00:47:19is not obliged to go to the people's militia, he goes there
00:49:22if not, just
00:49:31give him a specialty, then assign him to a military unit, taking into account all
00:49:35characteristics. The same work is carried out in territorial
00:49:38defense, and in the people's militia, well, of course,
00:49:41preference is given to people
00:49:44who, well, served, preference
00:49:47is given to hunters, because they know the area, they
00:49:50know game wardens, for example. If these are elderly people and are not subject
00:49:54to conscription, then, of course, a
00:49:57certain set of knowledge
00:50:00and skills is always important when performing
00:50:03tasks or in the future performing some tasks, yes, therefore, of course,
00:50:07well, if a person knows how to handle and shoot a rifle,
00:50:11knows his area like the back of his hand, in which he will have to be, then,
00:50:15of course, well, if there is a person who does not have these
00:50:18skills, then there will be a choice of who to take, then, of course, they will take this one.
00:51:53this responsibility lies with that person, because he
00:51:56led the country, he
00:51:59led, of course, he was let down by those around him, they sang
00:52:03praises and advised him, but...
00:52:35a little bit of foreign policy remembers Zelensky's election program,
00:52:38this handsome, wonderful, amazing guy who
00:52:42spoke Russian as if nothing had happened his entire
00:52:44life,
00:52:46to speak, he defended the rights of Ukrainians, that is, he was
00:52:50normal, but in my
00:52:53opinion, when he sat in the presidential chair,
00:52:57we know the entire policy of Ukraine over the past years, it
00:53:00has never been independent for the last
00:53:0310-15, or even 20 years, there were some
00:53:06advisers constantly, American, some
00:53:09others, and what they advised him, he
00:53:12lacked the courage to defend the position of his people,
00:53:16and not the interests of those who advised him, so
00:53:20maybe he ran for election not to defend the interests of the people, but to
00:53:23fill his pockets? Here we need to delve more into the political
00:53:27career of Comrade Zelensky, which is extremely short, in fact, yes, because
00:53:31he was in show business, in my opinion, he did it well.
00:54:35sometimes I hear that, yes, he shed
00:54:38a tear there, everything is fine, we can see, and these are
00:54:41normal frames, not fakes, confirmed by foreign
00:54:45media, where he visits stores, what his wife
00:54:49buys, what real estate periodically, I'm sure, this is only just
00:54:53appearing with Zelensky, with Zelensky, everything
00:54:55is wonderful, but today, in this financial sense,
00:54:59while real estate in Europe, yes, we can indeed
00:55:03use that, because you also.
00:55:35from 2020, I see that
00:55:38Macron is saying now, right, his latest statement, we will
00:55:42act harshly, we will stop all this, we see how
00:55:45the police act towards
00:55:48their own population, and at the initial stage, now
00:55:51the demographic spectrum of
00:55:55protesters has expanded a little, initially it
00:55:58was schoolchildren, they were beaten, killed right before their eyes,
00:56:02schoolchildren there, well, I...
00:56:05honestly, a little bit humanly, we are all people, right? I'm a little bit gleeful, Comrade
00:56:09Macron, as they say, don't spit into the well, you might fall
00:56:13into it yourself, our Slavic proverb, well,
00:56:16now Comrade Macron is putting on
00:56:19a brave face despite a bad situation, right? He talks about constitutional
00:56:23order, about something else, well, he should have remembered that then
00:56:26and expressed his normal opinion
00:56:29regarding Belarus, when there were
00:56:32protests, he had not expressed information for a long time.
00:57:08not from within, but from outside too, you know the theory that the USA, well, has
00:57:12intentions, well, this is also another conspiracy theory,
00:57:15after all.
00:57:18Let's put it this way, now there's a redistribution of the world order, each
00:57:22state, or coalition
00:57:25of states, naturally, this is a completely normal
00:57:28and natural process, they are trying to extract benefits from all this for
00:57:32their state or for
00:57:36the coalition of states they are in,
00:57:39but there is such an opinion, I am not an expert in
00:57:43politics, I never considered myself one, but there is
00:57:46such an opinion that...
00:58:17we should not, well, at least believe in it 100%,
00:58:20yes, there are disagreements, but don't we have
00:58:23disagreements somewhere in the CSTO? Yes, don't we have
00:58:27disagreements in the CIS? Yes, there are exactly the same disagreements
00:58:31now between NATO countries, but this does not mean that NATO will
00:58:34now collapse, the European Union will now collapse,
00:58:37this, well, probably will not happen in our lifetime, I don't
00:58:41believe it, all disagreements will be very clearly
00:58:44overcome before, if...
00:58:51But why can they still afford these squabbles,
00:58:53disagreements, these disputes, everything, because they
00:58:57know perfectly well, despite the loud political statements about
00:59:00the threat from Russia, it is not there in reality, they
00:59:04can fool around and have fun among themselves,
00:59:07making these statements, if there were a real threat from Russia,
00:59:11Belarus, the Union State present for
00:59:14Europe, you can be sure, they would become a monolith.
00:59:17We would not see this show, that is, this indirectly confirms
00:59:21that there is no threat from Belarus,
00:59:25of course, and from the Russian Federation, there isn't. They can
00:59:29fool around, all these internal
00:59:32problems, they are born by themselves, and this
00:59:34really comes from people, why, well,
00:59:38we all remember the beautiful prosperous Europe, those who traveled,
00:59:41traveled, yes, looked, saw,
00:59:44now we travel less often, but enough.
00:59:57various newsreels, footage, news, and we'll see what Europe has turned into in just a decade, in the last five years, the migration crisis, these migrants just walk around
01:00:00trampling on the indigenous people, the indigenous people in their own country have become
01:00:03aborigines, the standard of living is significantly
01:00:06falling, social
01:00:10guarantees for the population, which in Europe were always considered such a
01:00:13highlight, right? There
01:00:16is the level. For example, the maintenance of streets and everything, before we
01:00:20used to say, oh, how beautiful it is there, how amazing it is, what's on the shelves
01:00:24in stores, usually for ordinary people, you don't need a lot, right? All
01:00:27that has gone into oblivion, all this, of course,
01:00:31enrages the people, the people ask why, and
01:00:34the only answer is that we will support Ukraine, we must
01:00:37help, they stubbornly repeat this day
01:00:41after day, we will support perfectly understanding that they will never
01:00:44defeat Russia, but... money goes
01:00:48there, the standard of living at home falls,
01:00:52the people tell them on the streets what to do, but
01:00:55for now they don't understand, well, perhaps they will be told even more, then they will understand. And in the next
01:00:59part of our program, we will find out what to do when you are scared, and for now, let's
01:01:02take a short break.
01:01:16Back on air. Don't be silent, our guest today is Colonel and Deputy Ruslan
01:01:20Shkodin. Ruslan Nikolaevich, you entered the Riga Higher
01:01:23Military-Political School, but the Union collapsed, you ended up in
01:01:27Minsk, and how did this moment of personal choice against
01:01:30the backdrop of geopolitical catastrophe affect your attitude towards your
01:01:34homeland?
01:01:36Well, after the Riga school, when it was disbanded,
01:01:39I studied at the Military Engineering and Space Institute named after Mozhaisky in
01:01:43St. Petersburg, then later.
01:01:49I didn't transfer, it would be wrong to say transferred, I was discharged
01:01:53and reinstated in the Minsk Higher Military Command
01:01:56School.
01:01:59The Union collapsed, of course, it was a big country, we were brought up, well, and you're already in such a state,
01:02:03well, you're a young man, right, I was 18 years old at that
01:02:06time, but people generally started, not
01:02:10everyone, but mostly returning to
01:02:13their republics, that is, to their countries, it was already clear
01:02:16that... what was, would no
01:02:20longer be in the near future in the foreseeable future,
01:02:23I am Belarusian, I was born in Belarus,
01:02:26despite the fact that in Belarus, I had lived for all my life at that time,
01:02:3018 years, in total, well, maybe
01:02:333 and a half years, because, well, as soon as I was
01:02:36born, my father went to serve in the Baltic states, then for a certain
01:02:40period we lived here for 3 years and left again, but
01:02:44nevertheless, all my relatives are here, my roots were
01:02:48here, I transferred here, at that
01:02:51time my father was still serving, he also transferred
01:02:54here, and well, after thinking about it, and
01:02:58it was not such a...
01:03:30there are parents, there are ancestors, graves, he was not
01:03:33so old, but reasonable, there are ancestors, graves, we must go
01:03:37home. Of course, it was everyone's decision, of course, we
01:03:41each lived with this for several days, well, and made a decision. That's
01:03:45probably it, even though he's not much older,
01:03:48right, but such a friendly advice, probably, gave rise to
01:03:52this thought that yes, the country
01:03:56will now be small, but it will be
01:03:59ours. Our beloved Belarus, and all three
01:04:02of us, in the end, with various upheavals, but we
01:04:06ended up in this Minsk command school, including
01:04:10me, so perhaps these words of my
01:04:13senior comrade somehow instilled in me
01:04:17that yes, this is our land, we
01:04:19will serve on it, but you see how
01:04:23many geopolitical twists and turns we have already experienced, I
01:04:27mean people of our generation.
01:05:00something terrible happened, but due to age, perhaps,
01:05:0318 years old, well, you didn't fully realize the tragedy
01:05:07that happened then, and of course, patriotic feelings
01:05:11prevailed among everyone then, Ukrainians for Ukraine, Belarusians
01:05:14Russians, that is, then some kind of disunity happened, right?
01:05:18We didn't stop being friends, we didn't stop communicating, well, somehow
01:05:21everyone for their own, everyone for their own became
01:05:25more like that, right, because for the Union, well, it's right, when it's easier to hold on to this
01:05:29yes, probably. he latched onto that, well, but if there's no Union, what's there to hold on to?
01:05:33Yes, there was nothing to hold on to, and you couldn't influence anything, then
01:05:36later you realized that a great
01:05:40tragedy had indeed happened with age, with what you saw later, how the country developed, in
01:05:44what state it was, well, but never
01:05:47have Russians, nor Ukrainians, not a single
01:05:51people been to me, so to speak,
01:05:54leading up to your question, alien,
01:05:58because I studied with everyone.