Lukashenko Hid An Important Fact From His Biography For Many Years
Lukashenko Hid An Important Fact From His Biography For Many Years123.07.2025, 11:18 8,800 IK-17It could have affected the dictator's psyche.On July 1, Alexander Lukashenko, speaking about the recent release of political prisoners, mentioned that he once worked as deputy director of a building materials plant where prisoners worked, and he was "close" with them. "I was once determined that in my life I was an overseer in prison. I was not an overseer, but as deputy director of a building materials plant, we had convicts working for us," he said. At first glance, it sounds like Lukashenko was in charge of an ordinary enterprise, where, in addition to ordinary workers, there were convicts, "chemists" - since only such convicts are employed at "civilian" enterprises (those who are imprisoned work exclusively inside the colony). But is it really so?"Zerkalo" searched for details and found out that the dictator veiled the truth very much, leaving unclear the most important detail that has been hidden from his official biography for many years. According to the biography on Alexander Lukashenko's website, he really held the position of deputy director of the construction materials plant in Shklov from June 1983 to March 1985.But what was this plant and where was it located? According to the state register data, Shklou Plant of Building Materials and Products has not existed for a long time (the legal entity was liquidated in 2008). But it worked at the address: Shklou district, Molodezhnaya village, 2. The village, by the way, does not exist today either: back in 1997 it was included in Shklou. It was located in the area of the present Molodezhnaya and Zavodskaya streets.There, across the road, at the address 1-y Zavodskaya, 8, there is a complex of correctional colony No. 17. Now right across the fence from it is the Domostroenie branch of the Shklou newsprint plant (it is on the other side of the colony). Whether the old house-building plant was in the place of the present one or a little farther away, it is difficult to find out today, as the territory has changed a lot. But it was clearly located very close to IK-17. And it was - and only - prisoners who were serving their sentences in this colony who worked at this plant."Convicts worked at the Shklou Construction Materials and Products Plant," says an article about IK-17 on the information portal of the Shklou district. That is, it was a closed enterprise for the "special contingent"."Official biographers carefully conceal the fact that this combine is located in the institution UZH 15/17, in other words, in the colony. And the workers of the plant (about 120 people) were prisoners," wrote political scientist Valery Karbalevich in his book "Alexander Lukashenko: a political portrait," published in 2010.Even earlier, in 2003, Vasily Leonov - former first secretary of the Mogilev regional party committee (the actual head of the region where Lukashenko worked), and in 1993-1997 the Minister of Agriculture of Belarus - published his memoirs "Working on Mistakes." In them he placed a photocopy of Lukashenko's ID card. It was a pass issued to him in 1983 with the seals of "Institution UZh 15-17 of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the BSSR" - that was the name of the general regime penal labor colony in Shklov in Soviet times.The pass, issued by the head of the colony, states that Lukashenko holds the position of deputy director of the building materials and products plant and has "the right to enter the residential and production area of the institution." That is, he could walk on the territory not only of the combine, but also of the prisoners' living quarters. The above copy of the photo from Leonov's book was published in 2022 by political scientist Dmitry Bolkunets. The fact that the photo is not a later forgery is confirmed by the book by journalists Pavel Sheremet and Svetlana Kalinkina "The Accidental President" published in 2004. It mentions this very photo from Leonov's memoirs with the same details:"If Natalia Emelyanova, who is compiling a biography of the first president, had consulted Vasily Leonov, former first secretary of the Mogilev regional party committee and later the first minister of agriculture in Lukashenko's government, he would have helped fill in another gap. In his autobiographical book "Working on Mistakes" Leonov made public a copy of the identity card of Alexander Grigorievich Lukashenko, according to which this bald-headed man in 1983-1985 worked as deputy director of KSM&I of the institution UZH 15-17, i.e. in the colony. In the official biography, this time he worked as deputy director of Shklou Construction Materials Plant. A strange discrepancy between the document and the official biography. And so on practically every stage of his life - the real data seriously differ from the official ones," wrote Sheremet and Kalinkina. In Karbalevich's opinion, the experience of working with prisoners in the colony could have influenced Lukashenko."Work in the zone is very specific. Not everyone will go there and not everyone can stand it. In addition, communication with the contingent can affect a person's personality," the political scientist noted in his book. - Perhaps, that's why Lukashenko occasionally switches to blatnoy jargon. And in 2003, during a visit to the Shklou colony, he, addressing the prisoners, uttered a strange phrase: "You are my people."However, Lukashenko's biography does not mention this specific experience, and the line about the Shklou house-building plant looks as if the future dictator worked not in the zone, but was deputy director of an ordinary "civilian" factory. Actually, Lukashenka himself, as his speech on July 1 showed, as if he had forgotten where he spent almost two years of his career.PATREONSupport the website Write your comment 12 You can support the website Charter97.orgMULTI-CURRENCY ACCOUNT FOR ASSISTANCE:Bank's name: Bank Millennium S.A.Address: ul. 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