Wall of Truth functions in Brest to criticize authorities
The wall turned by its owner into a kind of mass media and called “Wall of Truth” has recently been added to Brest territory together with the house and the yard. Its owner is Mikalai Lukashevich, a former electrical engineer. It used to be the village of Vychulki were “fresh” rich Belarusians who used to be members of the party nomenclature built their cottages. The Wall of Truth has survived in such surroundings.
— Health services, firemen and the police visited him, - said Lukashevich’s neighbour in an interview with ERB while working in the kitchen garden with his young wife. – They tore off his plates but he nailed them. He has been on bad terms with the authorities since “the perestroika”. They announced him a madman. He is an interesting person. It is possible to talk to him.
There is a queer antenna on top of Lukashevich’s house. Its owner must be listening to enemies’ “voices”! He went out to talk to the ERB reporter.
ERB: Don’t you think there is too much politics in your texts?
M.Lukashevich: I am interested in the sense rather than the appearance. Speaking about the posters – the house and the plot are mine. Is the information displayed a lie? This is a precise quotation from Alyaksandr Lukashenka’s pre-election speech given at the time when he was not our President! I have not added or left out anything!
ERB: I can see that some posters are burnt a bit…
M.Lukashevich: They used a bulldozer to remove them and tried to burn them down but I won.
Mihail Lukashevich is officially jobless. He used to write complaints and visited Moscow to complain about the French Embassy in the Soviet time. He was placed in a lunatic asylum in Moscow and received injections of psychotropic agents against his will there.
– Aminozone, cyclodone, haloperidol, - says Lukashevich. – Cyclodone is a terrible drug - I hardly managed to get rid of the addiction. Here is a reference given to me by an independent psychiatric expertise at the beginning of the 1990s. “Citizen Lukashevich has no mental diseases and has never had”.
M.Lukashevich showed the ERB reporter his articles published in the “Krynitsa” magazine and in the local newspaper. Journalists started describing the twisted fate of Lukashevich in the post Soviet time. He never managed to stay in a job for more than six months – his Moscow traces got revealed and he kept getting fired. He managed to regain his jobs with the help of the court but he stopped doing it some time later. He got used to surviving on his own.
— I do not live worse than others, - says Mihail Lukashevich. – This is my son, he is a student. You can enter my yard and look at the wonderful pears and apples I have. I warned three cops recently: they will have to behave on my territory!
An ERB reporter phoned to Brest Moscow District Department of the Interior and asked about the attitude of the police to Lukashevich.
A representative of the District Department of the Interior Yury Stepusyuk: Lukashevich? From Vychulki? No, everything is okay. He has the right to do it. The posters do not urge to start revolutionary changes. They simply establish facts. We have nothing to do there.
What would he have said if Lukashevich had written “Live Belarus!” there?
— Health services, firemen and the police visited him, - said Lukashevich’s neighbour in an interview with ERB while working in the kitchen garden with his young wife. – They tore off his plates but he nailed them. He has been on bad terms with the authorities since “the perestroika”. They announced him a madman. He is an interesting person. It is possible to talk to him.
There is a queer antenna on top of Lukashevich’s house. Its owner must be listening to enemies’ “voices”! He went out to talk to the ERB reporter.
ERB: Don’t you think there is too much politics in your texts?
M.Lukashevich: I am interested in the sense rather than the appearance. Speaking about the posters – the house and the plot are mine. Is the information displayed a lie? This is a precise quotation from Alyaksandr Lukashenka’s pre-election speech given at the time when he was not our President! I have not added or left out anything!
ERB: I can see that some posters are burnt a bit…
M.Lukashevich: They used a bulldozer to remove them and tried to burn them down but I won.
Mihail Lukashevich is officially jobless. He used to write complaints and visited Moscow to complain about the French Embassy in the Soviet time. He was placed in a lunatic asylum in Moscow and received injections of psychotropic agents against his will there.
– Aminozone, cyclodone, haloperidol, - says Lukashevich. – Cyclodone is a terrible drug - I hardly managed to get rid of the addiction. Here is a reference given to me by an independent psychiatric expertise at the beginning of the 1990s. “Citizen Lukashevich has no mental diseases and has never had”.
M.Lukashevich showed the ERB reporter his articles published in the “Krynitsa” magazine and in the local newspaper. Journalists started describing the twisted fate of Lukashevich in the post Soviet time. He never managed to stay in a job for more than six months – his Moscow traces got revealed and he kept getting fired. He managed to regain his jobs with the help of the court but he stopped doing it some time later. He got used to surviving on his own.
— I do not live worse than others, - says Mihail Lukashevich. – This is my son, he is a student. You can enter my yard and look at the wonderful pears and apples I have. I warned three cops recently: they will have to behave on my territory!
An ERB reporter phoned to Brest Moscow District Department of the Interior and asked about the attitude of the police to Lukashevich.
A representative of the District Department of the Interior Yury Stepusyuk: Lukashevich? From Vychulki? No, everything is okay. He has the right to do it. The posters do not urge to start revolutionary changes. They simply establish facts. We have nothing to do there.
What would he have said if Lukashevich had written “Live Belarus!” there?
