In seven thousand town in Viciebsk region has the Belarusian department of "Night Wolves", military-patriotic club "Sparta", the head of which sends greetings Givi and Motorola in the Donbass, and competition "Russian Bench".
We with the photographer standing on the main square of Sianno and wait Eugene, a local biker. Crossing the huge local area cannot be solved even after the zebra crossing and huddle around the perimeter. Administration Building like factory dormitory, and next to it is the same "factory" Hall of Fame.
A concrete arch with a pentagonal star textbook visible monument to Soviet soldiers. Against the background of a pink building – the busts of Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin. For Marx – newly built white "suburban" brick church with brilliant domes. In contrast to this ideological composition it is far from good – APC in honor of soldiers in Afghanistan.
"Cult of War" – grumbled photographer. Gene for a long time, no, we are marking time around the boulder, decorated in the style of ispolkomovskoy "bronze plaque". "Since 1924, Sianno – center of the region, – reported the letter. – History has not preserved the foundation Sianno, but our city is definitely belongs to the ancient Slavic settlement."
A first Sianno mentioned in 1442. There were Sapieha and Oginskis, there was a Catholic church, the Orthodox Cathedral and the Church. We are returning to the area and try to discover the eyes of even the slightest remains of five centuries of the history of the town. And we see Eugene.
In Genet leather biker vest with the inscription "Sianno", cap, boots and khaki pants. On the way to the base of "Night Wolves" notice another monument-tank and a restaurant with a proud name "Acropolis".
"And here the church once stood, the communists blew it" – says Eugene about it.
"I will glorify Sianno"
The base of "Night Wolves" by Sianno – right on the lake Berezovsky. Landscapes such that the spirit grasps. A formal expression as "extreme Agriturismo" at this year's festival "Moto-blow" database collected two and a half thousand people – just tells us the owner Oleg The professor, who all know how the Silvan. – "From Novorossiysk people came for three thousand kilometers just to visit here. From the Baltic came russian-many people out there who still have."
"Night Wolves" – bikers ideological. "We stand for patriotism. Our slogan – "Where we are, there is Russia." Our leader – surgeon – said the Silvan. – The main point – bayktsentr in Moscow, and most in Russia. But "we" are and in Germany, and in Macedonia, and Serbia. In Ukraine, now our guys are all in the Donbass ... in New Russia are fighting."
A total of four representative offices in Belarus Night wolves says Silvan:
"For Belarus, this is normal. If we take together with the Bryansk and Smolensk, in the region of "Night Wolves" – 50 people"
All done on the estate of his hands. On the veranda – old bike in the room – pool table, plasma and a huge Soviet flag.
"It's no secret that we are cooperating well with the" Russian house "(Viciebsk Public Association – Ed.). Andrew Gerashchenko (head of "Russian House", a well-known saying about the infringement of the rights of Russian in Belarus, and the public reaction to it Alexander Lukashenko – Ed.), It is very good. Last year, we sponsored a little Russian Embassy ", – says Oleg.
The festival always invite musicians "patriotic" orientation. This year's headliner is the "Black Obelisk" (yes, they still play). Main Event – Saturday "culmination" – a special presentation with music, fire show, biker stunts. Oleg such "climax" puts itself. But it is recognized that prior to surgery it away.
In preparation for the show of Zaldostanov he participated in Sevastopol.
"There's scale! There is something to see! Two thousand people only participated, but people came to three hundred thousand! – Said the Silvan. – People are crying!"
Oleg "Silvan" is 45 years old. He himself from Sianno, one of the founders of the biker movement in Belarus. I love motorcycles and patriotism in the form of respect to the events of the Great Patriotic War from his father – Eugene Nikitich.
"My father – Honored coach of the Belarusian biathlon. In those days it was difficult to state the car to give him, so he kindergarten taught me to ride a motorcycle. Put me in the front, behind itself," – says Oleg.
For the first time under the supervision of his father he went driving in eight years. On his first motorcycle Oleg says fondly:
""Minsk", of course, I was. What else to begin to drive, but on his."
And now Silvan has a Yamaha Ventura. "He was my old, 1987, but I do not want to sell – explains Silvan. – It is very powerful – 127 horses, three hundred liter volume four. I dreamed of such an engine, and therefore bought."
"I always thought that bikers – convinced outside system, and St. George's ribbon here, the Soviet flag. Where did this?" – I ask Oleg.
"We are patriots of their country. Not so much of Belarus, – he says. – I was born in the USSR. I like the USSR. I am sorry about the times that we've got separation."
Silvan indignantly says that in the Baltic States "Night Wolves" believe "Putin", and in Ukraine it is now no road.
"A lot of friends in Ukraine, I cannot go to them, – he says. – Not because of the war, and because of the fact that I "Night Wolf". I go there – it is a death sentence to sign! The customs office slapped!"
"I'm for the Soviet Union! – Says Oleg Silvan. – For the unification of the Russian people to avoid these limits"!
As much Oleg worried that the victory in World War II a "appropriated" the Americans, and now try to forget about the real winners. "They (the Americans – ed.) – Cool in jeans with chewing gum and Coke went to war! Who won on the merits ?! We won! Soviet Union!"
In ordinary life, Oleg worked in Viciebsk in a construction company, but now, says the work has become less. Eugene is a car instructor in Sianno. Both boys family life did not work. Wives, in their words, deeds biker enthusiasm did not survive.
"It's all Western ideology – Oleg explained. – Western films seen enough, and already: "Oh, traveled And that went course, girls, stories, sex – drugs – rock 'n' roll?". All! And the fact that he is somewhere working on stage climbs, preparing for the climax, cannot currently answer the phone – this idea does not work."
Bikers are involved in nearly all public events in Sianno. Be sure to go for May 9 column lay flowers to the monument on a mass grave. Each "Moto-blow" devote significant event of the Great Patriotic War. Last year – the 70th anniversary of the liberation, the current – the 75th anniversary of a tank battle of Sianno.
"My father before his death requested that his case I continued, – says Oleg. – And I'm trying."
Father Eugene Nikitich Sianno was chairman of the local council of veterans. It was on his initiative stands in the city monument – tank "IS-3" in honor of the largest tank battle war.
"In honor of the 75th anniversary of planning a memorial stele to deliver", – says Oleg and complain that local authorities do not honor their activity too.
"Next year we plan on all entry roads in Sianno put commemorative signs to show that it is a city of military glory, and here were the biggest battle in the history of the Second World War, – says Oleg. – I will glorify Sianno. Not to many people who did not come as a "Moto-blow". From Poland, from the Baltic states, from Ukraine, Russia – everywhere. They leave and know something about Sianno. But you need to do something!"
Next, they are going to make the "Night Wolves" – held in Sianno competition "Russian Bench Press" together with the school of Greco-Roman wrestling, which they support, and the military-patriotic club "Sparta". By the head of which, retired Major Oleg Valentinovich Shumkova, we go back to Sianno.
Hello, Givi. Hello, Motorola
Sport club "Sparta" are in kindergarten. Gymnasium, where children are engaged in judo. In the next room hung with diplomas and commendable sheets.
"Everything on the sponsorship, the state did not help me much here, – says Oleg Valentinovich. – I am a former major in the Soviet Union. CCM judo master of sports and aerobatics pilot… I work with children since '98."
These little rooms we have seen in the video, accidentally found on Youtube. There's still a man's voice says that these children will gather for a "beautiful New Russia" humanitarian aid to make it all that they could, and even greeting Givi and Motorola, are "wet ukrov as it should."
Refusing video Oleg V. in the officer did not. Video shooting, collecting humanitarian aid, he took her in Smolensk. Although the video a long time, but nothing is sorry and did not change his views.
"The children collected humanitarian aid, and I have walked, and people gave – he says. – Assembled half-ton somewhere. And medicines and things. I have banned local authorities to carry. Here "Ukrainians"... I came to the executive committee called and said, "give to here those who come." I say no xp… my friends are waiting in Smolensk. I go there and drove."
"Sparta" Shumkov founded in 1998, when he retired. He himself Belarusian from Smolensk. He served in Russia. Friends with General Valery Frolov (former member of the House of Representatives, a trustee of Andrei Sannikov, the 2010 presidential elections – Ed.). "He died, my friend, there is no more", – he says.
The club guys, according Shumkov, judo, combat, fire training. On May 9 pupils "Sparta" stand watch around the clock about Sianno monuments, and on vacation, "Sparta" is organizing military-patriotic camp.
The club regularly participates in relevant national events, such as "Zarnitsa". Oleg Valentinovich shows a picture of his pupil Katya Metelitsa, who at the opening of the Olympic Games in Sochi was carrying the Olympic flame.
"I understand if you have the land, we have to protect, – Oleg V. answers to the question, what is the military-patriotic club. – I was not taught differently. I bomber. Here are the "Su-24", which in Syria have wet now, it's my plane."
By the Ukrainian question in a conversation with us, he goes himself. The sounds of a boy's training tells how many threats around.
"I'm the commander Skiba managers who taught me to be a pilot, he refused me, – says Shumkov. – Said I am "Moskal" I'm nobody. Such a case. Not from me personally (refused – Ed.), but from friends."
The fact that in Ukraine, came to power "fascists", Oleg V. doubts. Like, since the Soviet times knew of these "Westerners".
"Do you know who first left the aircraft? Ukrainians are gone! They promised them that there will be a big country. Of the regiments of the first run, as we called them, chu ... well, non-Russians, Azerbaijanis, all these. I was a political officer of the regiment. I know whereof I speak. Their children taken away. Sąjūdis was already..." – he recalls.
The world split line for the former Soviet commissar passes between "our" and "American", "grin" that he remembers from the war in Vietnam. He mentions a favorite episode of Russian propaganda about how Victoria Nuland handing out cakes on the Maidan, and said Peskov (Dmitry Peskov – Vladimir Putin's press secretary – ed.) would not have made.
"The Americans are somehow! And where the Americans – it is clear that it is their interests. I, for example, a military man, statesman, I understand that it is their interests. And their interests in any of our concern ... What they (the Americans – ed.) climb here, I do not understand? What are they doing in Europe?" – Outraged major Shumkov.
Oleg V. convinced that Russian troops in the Donbas not, but there are American instructors that Americans not "broken off" Crimea – the "unsinkable aircraft carrier in the Black Sea." Then I ask him if he regrets now that addressed the war criminals Givi and Motorola.
"That's when the courts will condemn them and say that they are war criminals, then I will believe. They for their country! I do not have such data, they torture and kill" – objects Shumkov, and my words that the Internet enough video evidence of abuse of prisoners, says that" the internet – it is a dump and should be closed."
However, that Belarus can happen something like that as with Ukraine, Major Shumkov not believe. After all, "Lukashenko is a good diplomat."
"Why should Russia attack us? We're friends, how can we attack each other? While Lukashenko in power, there will be war ... If we do not interfere with "American friends", "– said Oleg Valentinovich.
– Why are Americans?
– They want slaves. The more people who work for them, so they'd better – says Shumkov. – They have a hundred billion debt. And Belarus's okay. Nehru is the Americans do, it is unique. Quietly, children play. And now to our mountain set of 75-millimeter battery and would be bombed ...
– Who would put? The Americans?
– What's the difference! The idea that war nah ... not necessary.
"No need to talk and think. As soon as you see the dirt, blood, i ... it's when you will understand. You stop to listen, drink, sleep is nowhere, then a completely different world," – said Oleg Valentinovich.
Major Shumkov does not look angry or aggressive person. When training ends, and we're going to go away, invites to come in the summer to look at the camp. I ask, then where are his students. He says that many enter the military establishment. There are many in police.
Erect a monument Seine Sianno, rebuild church
And the "Night Wolves" and the club "Sparta" work closely with the local administration. Head of the department of ideological work, Culture and Youth executive committee Sergey Metelitsa leaders of both clubs know well. He knows and that Oleg V. collecting humanitarian aid for Donbass, but said only on its own initiative. "In politics – Metelitsa said – they do not climb." No ideological danger is not expected of them.
"We have just a club of bikers. About fifteen Sianno. We are working with them. It's the guys who love motorcycles, engaged in technology. In politics, they do not climb. In the evening, the city can be diarrhea, while their police did not calm down, "– explains the Metelitsa.
He tells how the city is going to honor the more than five-hundred story.
"We order the monument Seine Sianno. This is such a hero who stands on the district activities. And we carry it to the "Slavic Bazaar". Also Karatkevich wrote Sianno lake, its myths, and one of those myths and heroes – a dragon Sianno lake. He also order a memorial – says Blizzard. – In 2015, we established a monument in honor of our compatriot Matron Markevich (her embroidery is the basis of the national flag ornament – Ed.)."
"Once on-site health and fitness center, which is engaged in" Sparta "was the highest mountain, the same height as Kostelnaya – says the native of Sianno, Viciebsk and is now a successful businessman Vitaly Brovko. – On the Castle Hill was a gorgeous castle, which at various times belonged to Sapieha, and Pac".
"Many sennentsy – continues to Vitaly – and are proud of the fact that in Sianno was gorgeous church of the Holy Trinity, and regret that it was destroyed in the 60's. Until now, all Sianno call this mountain "Kostёlkoy". Recently there appeared a chapel and there is talk about the restoration of the church. Although the vast majority – "Orthodox atheist", and the church is perceived more as an architectural and cultural relics."
Vitaly Brovko convinces us that much of his native city is no different from the other towns of the Viciebsk region, and it is difficult to suspect him of some extraordinary concentration "Russian world".
"As in all Belarusian cities, there is a certain vacuum, – Vitaly says. – People who need more than the job-bottle-food, they have nowhere to go and nothing to get excited about. So, of course, if we talk about the public space, and the festival of "Breakthrough" (now "Moto-blow" – Ed.), and bikers, spectacular drive through the streets, and the club "Sparta" – in plain sight, they are visible. But I would not say about their extreme ideological role. "
Alexandra Dynko, Radio Liberty
