Zmicier Vajciuszkievicz: 5 years ago there were some hopes for the elections, now they’ve disappeared

Whether creative people should go into politics or shouldn’t they, it is up for everyone to decide. These thoughts were expressed by a well-known Belarusan musician Zmicier Vajciuszkievicz.

“That is what we actually have: someone is engaged in politics, someone is not. Someone didn’t want to be engaged in the previous election campaign, but has been put into the black list together with all the others. As for me, I was actively involved in the previous presidential campaign. Still, I believe that there is nothing wrong in it, I didn’t break the law”, said Zmicier Vajciuszkievicz in the talk to the EuroBelarus Information Service.

According to the musician, “we will come  to the moment when we will understand that if anyone wants to be friends with the authorities – let him do so, if not – let him live his own life, in the farm, for instance”. “Nowadays most of the musicians have their own private summer cottages and try to enter the interior emigration”, noted the author.

Still Zmicier Vajciuszkievicz is convinced that “if there will be something to say to the future authorities, then the musicians will say it”. He assumes that there is no use in talking with the current people in power as they would not listen to anyone. “I know few people from those who collaborate with the authorities; well, they feel down, as well”, recounted the singer.

The musician aims at tracking the political information before the parliamentary elections. “I watch over the processes, read different independent websites, and know many candidates by name, either the former ones or the ones who are left. But I do not intend to go to the elections”, stressed Zmicier Vajciuszkievicz.

He thinks that comparing with the previous election campaigns, “now everything is becoming clearer than ever … Because 5 years ago everything was somewhat vague and there were some hopes for the elections. And now there have disappeared”, noted the EuroBelarus interlocutor.

Yet, the musician still doesn’t treat badly those who decided to participate in the election campaign. “I think of these elections as about the training for those who participate. And the fact that they haven’t fixed something is the problem of the ones who haven’t agreed on it”, he underlined.

The singer thinks that this campaign is important “if only from the view of the presence in the regions because it is of the same importance. The people who live there, are under control, they are registered, and as soon as the authorities get to know about something, they immediately get closely watched. That is why they need to move somehow. And such variant of training, the attempt to talk to people – this is very important, as well. For Belarus is not a small country. What happens in Minsk and what happens in small towns are all different things”, emphasized Zmicier Vajciuszkievicz.