“This is how problems begin,” says a mad Alexander Lukashenko as he grabs a sheet of metal that has come loose from a door frame. “If I were your boss, this would be your last day at work,” he tells an employee during a visit to a Koljos – community farm – in a propaganda video that spreads on social networks.
The anger of the president of Belarus, who in his youth ran a Koljos himself and has a degree in agriculture, increases as the video goes on. When one of his leaders explains that they have done a lot of work, the president interrupts him to tell him that the cows are “hungry.” “Why did they bring me here? So that I can call the KGB at this moment and you can leave here handcuffed as the person responsible!” He explodes at the official’s distraught face.
“This is like Auschwitz! And on top of that you make him responsible for the Kolkhoz,” continues Lukashenko, who regularly visits these farms. “It will solve the situation,” the official responds ruefully, something that does not seem to appease the president, who continues his anger about the dirt on the farm.
After the visit, Lukashenko is seen speaking with other officials, asking them to take “concrete measures” against those responsible for the farm. “Let the criminal case contemplate the harshest penalties,” he orders. “The guilty person is arrested and sent to jail!” He indicates, while an official shakes his head affirmatively.
