MINSK, 22 October (BelTA) - The book "Superposition. Parallel Worlds" was presented at the Belarusian State Academy of Arts, BelTA has learned.
The event screened BelTA’s video project "How it was. Special Episode" and BelTA’s exhibition "Parallel Worlds" that inspired the book. The posters featured at the exposition reflect two worlds: the world of the state - creation and development and the world of opposition - destruction and degradation.
At the beginning of the meeting, BelTA Director General Irina Akulovich said that the work on the book began a year ago. "We decided to analyze the first 30 years of the sovereign life of Belarus, to analyze how the government and the opposition acted," Irina Akulovich said.
She stressed that this analysis suggests that the government and the opposition are two completely parallel worlds that do not intersect. The authors considered 18 topics, including economy, sport and others. Using the example of culture, Irina Akulovich showed that the state has been engaged in development for 30 years, and the opposition has been creating empty events and slogans that have nothing to do with development. "The state has invested huge funds in order to restore everything that was destroyed. This is done daily," she added.
She urged the students present at the event to start analyzing everything that is happening around them and appreciate what they have.
The book "Superposition. Parallel Worlds" was published by BelTA with the support of the Information Ministry. The book was authored by Sergei Musiyenko, the head of the EcooM analytical center, a member of the scientific and expert group at the State Secretariat of the Security Council of Belarus. Speaking at the event, he stressed that the first years of Belarus' independence were a difficult period. “Different people associate it with different things, but the main feeling was hopelessness. We saw no perspective on how to get out of the situation we were in. The election of Aleksandr Lukashenko in 1994 gave hope to people,” Sergei Musiyenko said.
The author emphasized that the purpose of the book is to provide as many facts as possible, showing the 30-year path of the country’s development, and the president’s unchanging position on key issues during all those years.
Deputy Education Minister Yekaterina Petrutskaya explained the importance of outreach activities with young people. “We want you to understand that our 30-year history of independence was a challenging one. You still have everything ahead of you. We have high hopes for you. These hopes will be justified only if you have the right picture of the world, the right idea of where to go, if you are independent and self-sufficient, if you have a complete picture of the history and how much our people had to overcome and how much they had to work to make the life we have today,” she said. The deputy minister also added that the young people would also have to instill a respectful attitude to the past in their descendants in the future.
At the end of the meeting the students were able to ask their questions to the author of the book.
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