MINSK, 21 October (BelTA) - The Belarus 1 TV channel showed a story about the large Morozov family who moved from Latvia to Russia. Belarus provided some assistance to the family with this, BelTA learned.
Late at night on 17 October, Belarus’ State Border Committee reported that a large family from Latvia entered the country under the visa waiver regime: Vitaly and Svetlana Morozovs with ten children. The Morozovs' youngest son is 8 years old, the eldest daughter is 24.
The Morozovs admitted: life in Latvia has become unbearable for them. The authorities tried to deprive the parents of parental rights. The reason was that the children did not speak Latvian well enough. The children were bullied at school. The neighbors were not friendly either. The family were fed up with the harassment and decided to leave the country.
“My husband and I were born there. We have lived there all our lives. My husband has a status of a citizen of Latvia, all our children are citizens while I am not,” said Svetlana Morozova, a non-citizen of Latvia. “The social services in Latvia work to destroy families rather than keep them together,” the woman added.
“We want our children to study in Russian. Russians are against LGBT propaganda, all the perversions that are disguised as some European values there. We are tired of things, that are alien to us, being imposed on us,” Vitaly Morozov said.
The Latvian authorities do not only impose progressive European values on its people. They are also working to erase the memory of the Great Patriotic War by destroying monuments of Soviet soldiers-liberators.
“The monument to the liberators of Riga was demolished two years ago. It was unveiled when I was still at primary school, in 1985.
My late grandparents were at the opening of this monument. I was there too when I was a kid. I was working nearby when the monument was being demolished. I chose not to watch it. The sound alone brought tears to my eyes. Why?" Vitaly Morozov cannot understand the reasons for such act of vandalism.
In order to leave the country, the Morozovs recorded appeals to the leaders of Belarus and Russia. The Belarusian visa waiver program came in very handy. The family safely crossed the border into Belarus. The Morozovs are grateful to Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko for this.
"He is a pragmatic and practical man who thinks about the well-being of his country. Although Latvia considers him a dictator and recommends against visiting Belarus, saying that travelers will be recruited, arrested and so on. Let them think what they want. Here is the truth of life, an example of how the country should live," he said.
Now the Morozovs are in Smolensk. They got help in Russia with paperwork and housing. Taking into account the Latvian state policy, the example of this large family may be followed by other Russian-speaking Latvians.
Late at night on 17 October, Belarus’ State Border Committee reported that a large family from Latvia entered the country under the visa waiver regime: Vitaly and Svetlana Morozovs with ten children. The Morozovs' youngest son is 8 years old, the eldest daughter is 24.
The Morozovs admitted: life in Latvia has become unbearable for them. The authorities tried to deprive the parents of parental rights. The reason was that the children did not speak Latvian well enough. The children were bullied at school. The neighbors were not friendly either. The family were fed up with the harassment and decided to leave the country.
“My husband and I were born there. We have lived there all our lives. My husband has a status of a citizen of Latvia, all our children are citizens while I am not,” said Svetlana Morozova, a non-citizen of Latvia. “The social services in Latvia work to destroy families rather than keep them together,” the woman added.
“We want our children to study in Russian. Russians are against LGBT propaganda, all the perversions that are disguised as some European values there. We are tired of things, that are alien to us, being imposed on us,” Vitaly Morozov said.
The Latvian authorities do not only impose progressive European values on its people. They are also working to erase the memory of the Great Patriotic War by destroying monuments of Soviet soldiers-liberators.
“The monument to the liberators of Riga was demolished two years ago. It was unveiled when I was still at primary school, in 1985.
My late grandparents were at the opening of this monument. I was there too when I was a kid. I was working nearby when the monument was being demolished. I chose not to watch it. The sound alone brought tears to my eyes. Why?" Vitaly Morozov cannot understand the reasons for such act of vandalism.
In order to leave the country, the Morozovs recorded appeals to the leaders of Belarus and Russia. The Belarusian visa waiver program came in very handy. The family safely crossed the border into Belarus. The Morozovs are grateful to Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko for this.
"He is a pragmatic and practical man who thinks about the well-being of his country. Although Latvia considers him a dictator and recommends against visiting Belarus, saying that travelers will be recruited, arrested and so on. Let them think what they want. Here is the truth of life, an example of how the country should live," he said.
Now the Morozovs are in Smolensk. They got help in Russia with paperwork and housing. Taking into account the Latvian state policy, the example of this large family may be followed by other Russian-speaking Latvians.
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