Forced subscription to state-owned press continues in Bialynichy district
Earlier
the burden of securing the subscription to large circulations of
"ideologically correct" editions was put on workers of
budget institutions, whereas now it concerns almost all organizations
and enterprises of the district.
The local ideologists sent
the orders for subscription to all organizations and even mentioned
which editions Bialynichy dwellers must read first of all. The first
place is still ocupied by "Sovetskaya Belorussiya".
The
order for making people subscribe to the state-owned editions was
also sent to the Bialynichy district post office. A
special plan, including
the list of the newspapers and magazines the subscription to which
must be obligatory provided by the
mailmen, was passed to tem. According to workers of the post office,
the largest number of subscribers is still needed for "Sovetskaya
Belorussiya" and the district newspaper "Zara nad
Druttsiu".
"We were ordered to obligatory subscribe
to some state newspaper," says a worker of the Bialynichy public
utilities. "Our ideologists said that this confidential order
was obligatory for implementation. To my mind, it's a craze, but the
people implement it and subscribe, being afraid of trouble at work. I
don't understand what for they need it, as many workers of our
organization don't read newspapers at all. I also prefer getting news
from the Internet."
By
the way, according to workers of public utilities, apart from
subscribing to the state press, each of them must bring ten kilos of
pulp, as the enterprise was ordered to supply a great quantity of
second raw materials.
