Screenshot of the video by Belarus 1
MINSK, 21 November (BelTA) – The film “Time chose us” on the Belarus 1 TV channel offers a glimpse into the crime situation in Minsk in the early 1990s, BelTA reports.
One did not have to be a business owner to become a victim of gang violence in the early 1990s. Back then teenagers from the same neighborhood banded together in gangs and such gangs operated in every neighborhood. Fights with young people from other neighborhoods, theft, attacks on strangers were common in that period. The most dangerous places in Minsk were the Shabany neighborhood and the area of Angarskaya Street.
Member of the House of Representatives Aleksandr Barsukov, who served in various positions in the riot police in the early 1990s, recalled that groups of up to 100 people could gather for a fight.
“Such things took place. The riot police would get a call that a fight was brewing, a group of 100 people was moving from Serebryanka to Angarskaya. We would arrive, and there were many more of them. And they were not coming empty-handed: some had chains, some antennas, brass knuckles. The youth from these groups went into racketeering and so on,” said Aleksandr Barsukov.
One did not have to be a business owner to become a victim of gang violence in the early 1990s. Back then teenagers from the same neighborhood banded together in gangs and such gangs operated in every neighborhood. Fights with young people from other neighborhoods, theft, attacks on strangers were common in that period. The most dangerous places in Minsk were the Shabany neighborhood and the area of Angarskaya Street.
Member of the House of Representatives Aleksandr Barsukov, who served in various positions in the riot police in the early 1990s, recalled that groups of up to 100 people could gather for a fight.
“Such things took place. The riot police would get a call that a fight was brewing, a group of 100 people was moving from Serebryanka to Angarskaya. We would arrive, and there were many more of them. And they were not coming empty-handed: some had chains, some antennas, brass knuckles. The youth from these groups went into racketeering and so on,” said Aleksandr Barsukov.
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