Zmitser Dashkevich
A district court in Minsk found former political prisoner Zmitser Dashkevich guilty of holding an unsanctioned rally and resisting detention, A heavy fine was imposed on the Young Front leader.
The riot policemen cracked down on Dashkevich, who along with his colleagues were protesting against the opening of the monument to Vladimir Lenin near Minsk Tractor Plant on November 7. In the course of hearing, they who were giving evidence against him. In turn, Zmitser Dashkevich recalled that their conduct was nothing but abuse of powers.
“Because it is an absolutely a wild situation… Personally, I remember more brutal detentions and beatings, but it was the first time I came across such a strange reaction, mixed with some sick sexual views,” Dashkevich said after the incident.
“They threw me onto the floor and started to kick and hit beaten with a headrest. They said: “How does our Lenin get in your way?” When I answered: “Lenin is a demon and instigator of murderers. If you are defending him, you are Satan’s children”, they just went mad.
One of them dtuffed his fingers into my nose and pulled my head up, while the other poked his baton into my mouth and shouted: ‘Suck it!’ They are perverts. I do not remember being trated like that,” Dashkevich told Belsat TV.
The leader of Young Front later filed a report with the prosecutor’s office and police department of Pershamaisky district of Minsk. The former political prisoner, who has two prison sentences and dozens of arrests, wrote a statement to the police for the first time in 15 years of his opposition activity.
Old new Lenin near Minsk Tractor Plant
The monument to Vladimir Lenin was put up “at the request of the Communists”.
In fact, the new Lenin is a cleaned and repainted old Lenin, who previously stood in the courtyard of the factory.
“The monument was often repainted: into gray, then green, and now we cleaned it, made a new pedestal,” said Andrey Suslenka, the company’s Deputy Director General on Ideology, Human Resources and Social Development.
