It's is no longer exotic of the future: these sprouts are real Belarusian watermelons.
They are already being cultivated by Lukashenko on a personal farmstead, and at the dawn farm.
The melons are waiting for the flowering.
In greenhouses they conjure over the microclimate: there is enough tomato harvest both for the domestic market and for deliveries to Russia.
Another 50 tons of milk, 120 tons of meat. The cows here also have greenhouse conditions.
It was the first millionaire collective farm in the USSR.
After the war, the destroyed economy was restored by Cyril Orlovsky, the legendary partisan who fought in Spain in the 1930s.
They say that Hemingway wrote about him as the hero of the novel "For Whom the Bell Tolls".
And in the 40s in Belarus, where he lost both hands.
But he established the collective farm so that it was well known throughout the Union, even in the cinema.
Who gave you an order to start collecting?
Seeds. The biggest authority.
But where is machinery?
You are underestimating the manual work.
Now a lot of things in the legendary farm are technologicly advanced
heated floors, automatic scaffolds, cow's mood sensors show activity on the collars and chips in the ears.
The computer automatically rewards food for liters of milk.
Even manure here is biofuel:
the country's most powerful biogas plant is a source of electricity for the region.
Milk in general and a biogas plant - bring us almost equal money to the economy, of course,
it was something new for us at the time, it is working for almost 6 years, we have gained experience and there are good economic results.
Belarus kept the collective farms longer than any of the former Soviet republics.
Agriculture is the tradition, but here it is carefully preserved.
The 3rd July holiday itself is a fusion of history and modernity.
A unique case - Independence Day is celebrated not on the day of signing the declaration of independence,
but on the day of the liberation of Minsk from the Nazi invaders.
An absolute majority of Belarusians voted for the postponement of the holiday precisely on this date in a referendum.
Thus, the holiday has a special meaning: it does not emphasize the collapse of the Union,
not desovietization, but the unifying traditions of the Great Victory.
Therefore, in addition to the latest victories of the country, on this day they recall that historical one.
The large monuments are dedicated to the legendary liberation operation "Bagration",
and the little-known, like this one, in the wilderness of the Minsk region.
Pyramid of machine guns - this is how the soldiers of the Brigade brigade kept their weapons.
The largest partisan unit in Belarus.
Here was their camp for almost 2 thousand people - iron discipline, a paramilitary organisation.
Sketches of partisan life were preserved: there was an infirmary, a kitchen, a bathhouse, an armory.
They called it their "Tula", and even a captured German walkie-talkie, which was used to listen to reports from Moscow.
They took the generator from the wrecked German car after one of the battles,
they hooked a bicycle suspended between the trees to it.
It was called “spin the dynamo”- young healthy partisans took turns riding the bicycle, pedaling.
the generator was charging and the radio worked.
More than 300 train bombings and 14.5 thousand killed Germans were on the account of the partisans.
The guerrillas defended their native villages for 2.5 years, and in July of 1944, they joined the Red Army, and many left to liberate Europe.
A detailed archive of the brigade stores information about operations and the names of underground heroes.
Today, fresh flowers will certainly be there on these memorial plates.
