Rahachou: "Let's make 6 April, a day of the Lent, the day of charitable work!"
Workers of all districts of Homel region
"fruitfully" work at days of unpaid work, subbotniks. The
administration of Vetka District Executive Committee, dissatisfied with the results
of a subbotnik, ordered the workers to spend another Saturday working without
money.
Rahachou District Executive Committee went even further: its head Vitkar
Banchuk issued a ruling, according to which 6 April will be the "day of
charitable work" in Rahachou. "The heads of enterprises,
organizations and institutions of all forms of property are recommended to
conduct the district day of unpaid work in connection with the construction of
an Orthodox church in Rahachou," reads the ruling. According to this
documents, all means received as a result of this work will be transferred to
the bank account of the temple.
"Let's make a day of Lent, 6 April, the day of charitable work!",
calls the local newspaper "Svabodnaye Slova". A statement of a local
priest in support of this initiative was also published there.
Subbotniks in the present-day Belarus are a remnant of the Soviet system.
Formally, they are held on the "initiative of workers", whereas in
fact it is done on informal orders, "recommendations" of authorities.
