Shpilevskaya: despite external threats, Belarus has not curtailed any social programme

Despite threats from outside and attempts by the West to strangle Belarus economically, Belarus hasn’t curtailed a single social programme – as stated by Olga Shpilevskaya, Director of the Mir TV and Radio Company representative office in Belarus and Chairperson of the Belarusian Women’s Union, in her talk with the ONT TV channel

She drew attention to the fact that people in Belarus – unlike citizens of Western countries – do not remain on the street without work and means of living.

“At the state level, despite all the severity and threats from outside, the attempts [of Western countries] to strangle not the country, but each of us economically, in the end, despite the war that is going on right at the threshold of our home, not a single social programme has been curtailed. People are not left on the street without work and means of living. Just look from a different angle at the fact that your children continue to calmly go to schools and kindergartens, attend different sections, sing, dance, walk, and sometimes alone in the evening on the street. No one is trying to take your children away from you because you expose them to a far-fetched potential danger or you don’t have enough – according to some representatives of certain social bodies – money to support them,” Olga Shpilevskaya noted.

The Chairperson of the Belarusian Women’s Union also added, “Is it nonsense to take away and give your child to be raised in a same-sex family? No. This is the work of juvenile justice in the ‘progressive’ West. In fashionable Paris or Berlin, the capital of the once most developed and free country in Europe, walking in the evenings is dangerous in principle, and even more so in branded clothes. This is a sign that people have money and can be robbed. Do we think about it when we go out on the evening promenade to the clean, bright and safe streets of our cities?”