Monument to Social Benefits Demolished in Pruzhany
01.02.2008.
Tags: benefit cuts, culture.
Source: Press-service of United Civil Party.
On 27 January in the town of Pruzhany youth activists of the United Civil Party put a monument to social benefits, which had been liquidated by the Belarusian authorities short before this. It was a concrete slab with the following inscriptions: ‘We love, remember and grieve’, ‘Benefits – 1975-2007”. Participants of the ceremony of the monument’s opening commemorated the lost benefits with a minute of silence and then laid flowers to the slab. The action was timed to 40 days after liquidation of the social guarantees.
The local authorities could not put up with such a monument. It was demolished with a bulldozer. Now there is a large pit with flowers scattered around it.
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