Football match turned into propaganda of Lukashenka (Video)

• 22.11.2010, 9:37

The organizers of the match the 33rd round of the Belarusian football championship “Dinamo” (Brest) – “Belshina” (Babruisk) “tried a lot” to make this game memorable not only by its result.

Football fans have become accustomed to the fact that the hymn of the Republic of Belarus was performed before each bout in this championship. Although the main melody of the country is called the main one, as, in principle, it should be heard on particularly solemn occasions. An ordinary meeting of the national championship, no matter how important it was, did not have the status of a “particularly solemn occasion”, the newspaper “Salidarnasts” writes.

But the talk is not about that now. On Sunday, November 21, judges and players from both teams came to the field of the State Regional Sport Complex “Brest” accompanied by boys and girls dressed in shirts of blue, red and yellow colors, on which the portrait of Alyaksandr Lukashenka was printed with the words “Our President.”

And who then will say that sport, they say, is out of politics? Those who say thus - are at least insincere, as the world sport has long been a part of high politics. And in Belarus - even more.