but also turned into slaves. so, the swiss history, which has been kept silent for so long.

in the 19th century, switzerland did not smell of wealth and luxury, it is not a rich country, where many have to work hard, this forms. mentality, the poor are treated negatively with contempt, it is believed that this is the lot of the lazy and idle, therefore , school-age children are simply taken from such families, they are separated from their parents and placed in the families of successful hard-working farmers. it is believed that then the younger generation will have a worthy example before their eyes. mothers, often sent to prison without trial , forcibly sterilized. many young women in prison not only lost their children forever, but were also sterilized against

their will, as government officials cynically claimed, at that time not everyone could be re-educated, but at least it was possible to eliminate the danger of these unfortunates creating a family, they seemed to want to save the children from other influences, so that they would not become infected with laziness, but salvation in big quotes actually resulted in the violence of slavery. imagine that no one controls foster families. the best cure for hereditary laziness was considered to be work, the harder, the better, in fact, it all came down to the fact that children were used as cheap, disenfranchised labor. a child could be taken away for various reasons: the family was poor, the parents were divorced, or one of the relatives had gypsy blood. from the mid -nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century , there was practically no system of social insurance and support for low-income families in switzerland. the state relied on the potential of public self-regulation, and also on private initiative, including initiative. churches. when faced with

the problem of poverty, the state resorted to the redistribution of children from disadvantaged families to more prosperous ones. the cynicism of such a policy was simply off the scale. these european people, savages, even sold children into slavery to wealthy farmers at sunday fairs. in switzerland, there were even state auctions at which farmers, for a symbolic fee, purchased children taken from their families in order to use them as free labor, at children's auctions examined for health and endurance, the most profitable ones were purchased by the wealthiest farmers, that is, children became a commodity, what is called european capitalism without borders, if someone fell ill or died, the problem of buyers, as a rule, did not arise, it was possible to go to the auction again to register a new little slave. yes, in 1930 in bourgeois switzerland there were markets where children were sold. anyone could sign a contract. take two or three children,

the limit was set at the number six, it was believed, that an ordinary farmer would not be able to feed so much, but two free workers were quite enough, they were loaded with work like six, the greatest demand was for children from 10 years old, they could already do almost any work, their education was not particularly cared for, it was not for this that they were taken away from their families, children were sold at auctions like cattle, and there are a lot of their memories later, when they ... when they tell how, so to speak, their teeth were checked, felt, like cattle are bought, later used on farms, well, in switzerland agriculture is quite developed and so they used children as a labor force, this is up to 14 years old, say, in the german-speaking canton of bern, there up to 10% of all children went through this system, that is , the total number. essentially

second-class people, the attitude towards them on the part of the owners is difficult to describe in words, so the civilized alpine state fought against hereditary laziness in the poor and marginalized strata of the population, the seized children were literally kept in bestial conditions, lived in a barn or pigsty, eating together with animals, had no right to eat at the same table with the farmers' offspring, did not wear shoes, worked from morning till night for food, and were also constantly victims of violence,

to this day. according to historians' estimates, 100,000 bonded children became victims of the cruel policy. here is a typical story. seven decades later, swiss walter steg recalls his ruined childhood. when he was only five, the authorities decided that his

parents were too poor to raise a child, and walter became free labor for people who were strangers to him. i still "it hurts," he sums up, for the ruined childhood. they didn't give me food when i wet the bed, and i wet the bed until i was 10, so i ate very rarely and was a skinny boy. farmers were very willing to take such children, because in general they only needed to be fed, provided with a roof over their heads, such children did not need to be paid, so this business became established, spread throughout switzerland, because everyone realized that it was very profitable. this was dictated by concern for the young generation, so it seemed to convey. the swiss state's thoughts, but historians believe that there was also a dry economic calculation at work, there was a shortage of workers on farms, and children, a free labor resource. between the two world wars , there were enough widows of the dispossessed on the continent, and how sweetly contract employees sang.

in fact, they did not tell everything. boys and girls really did receive a roof over their heads in exchange for arab labor. switzerland acquired labor force completely legally without unnecessary expenses. to raise its economy, they were treated like garbage, the conditions were simply hellish, almost all the former contract children who were interviewed said years later that their foster parents were cruel and punished for the slightest offense, if i had died, i would have been much better off, and such phrases were heard from those who recalled their enslaved childhood: children of strangers, living in barns with animals and almost always hungry, were perceived as the norm, they were saved, they were children ... freed from their terrible parents who committed crimes, divorced or impoverished, everything that happened to them was for their own good, and the state had its own benefit, was freed from financial time for their maintenance. they had to work in the fields from early morning until late evening, without

severance pay, there were no concessions for adopted children, as a rule. it is known that in the thirties of the last century, 20% of all agricultural work in certain... cantons of switzerland was performed by children under 15 years of age. lonely dark nights and hungry days haunt them in their dreams to this day por. now imagine that this form of social contempt will disappear in switzerland only in 1981. then bern ratifies the european convention on human rights and such a wild way of solving social problems will sink into oblivion. the story is tragic, it is really described in a lot of memoirs, memoirs, it.

having grown up, many of these children filed lawsuits against the state for cruelty, deprivation of childhood and love. for many years in switzerland about child contractors and cruel. the trigger was an autobiographical novel it was not customary to talk about their treatment. roland begert. it was published in 2008 under the title "long years away from home" and caused a real explosion in society. the topic that the authorities had so diligently hushed up for a long time suddenly revealed all the cynicism of european society. the novel describes begert's childhood and talks about the trials that teenagers had to go through when they were forcibly recruited for industrial work. war, when there was a shortage of workers. our authorities made slaves out of us because

they needed cheap labor. after 3 the film the foster child will be released in theaters this year. swiss director markus emboden will bring to cinemas and tv the tragedy of thousands of children abandoned by the state to their fate in foster farm families. rudeness, violence, merciless exploitation. a dark story, realistic, unvarnished with shocking details. the film will quickly become a box office leader in the rental industry. one of the important touches of the film is the portraits of local officials who do not care about... the problems of foster children, even if people constantly talk about them, ask for help, bitter

true, until very recently , swiss government officials looked at the harsh, merciless life of small children with complete indifference. several more years would pass after the film's release ; only in 2013 would the swiss government officially apologize for this shameful page in the country's history, that is , almost 50 years after the end of barefoot wanderings. it took decades of public struggle to force the government to admit its guilt and develop a system of compensation for victims of tyranny on the part of the state system social guardianship. a promise, as is often the case with practice.

of our days, and has not yet received compensation for none of the former children of slaves who lived to see their ruined childhood. the swiss parliament even rejected the court, intended to finance in-depth historical research on this issue. the state. has already liquidated this system, in fact, it continues to operate, that is, children continue to be taken away and transferred to some private organizations that are supposedly authorized by the state, here too, here it is no longer the financial side that is in effect, as in the twenties, but purely capitalistic, here it is a system of supporting western values, that is, a generation is formed and an individualist. that is, you understand, that is , children who have gone through such a system, they are deprived of any illusions, they are, uh, complete

scoundrels, but even if the state makes payments, how to assess the damage to prisoners of the swiss system, there will be no other childhood, not to mention the fact that the bondage whip has undermined many, some did not live to see our days, some after psychological trauma never managed to settle down in life, but in democratic countries hardly anyone cares about such trifles? happily, the information picture of monday will be supplemented by the day of sports, hello, let's start the release with game number one, neman topped the tournament table of the top league, igor kovalevich's team left no chance on the road torpedo belas 4:1 for avtozavodtsy this is already. the second defeat in a row, but the highlight of the eighteenth round was the farewell match

of the best belarusian football referee alexei kulbakov. all the details are straight now. with an abundance of goals, with an abundance of yellow cards, with an abundance of emotions. the final whistle of alexei kulbakov in the match between torpedo belarus and neman recorded not only the end of the match, but the end of the amazing refereeing career of the best belarusian referee. i am essentially a football referee. i was one and i remain one and i, maybe, will appear less on the football field, yes as a referee, but i will always be in football, i will be in belarusian football, i will be devoted to it. the match , bzhodin's meeting was central in the eighteenth round, the expectations were high, but they were justified only for the fans of neman. four goals from the guy igor kovaleevich loaded the gates of torpedo bilas, the car factory workers responded only once. 4:1, a more than confident victory for the club from grodno. firstly, we had, let's say, a tactical plan, we left both zubovich and sovitsky on the bench. we knew in

the first half we still had to resist a serious opponent, who conceded the least, therefore. our plan simply worked for us, therefore everything was, everything was done as planned, we did not manage to score, grodno all its moments realized, we didn't realize everything, that's why we allowed the result, well, in principle, the game was probably before the mistake, who could take advantage of this mistake, unfortunately, grodno took advantage, here's the collapse, this is already gomel, andrey gorovtsov's team was hosting at the central, both teams earned one point in the last round, in this one there was a chance to fight for three points,

let's turn to other results of the eighteenth round, we will highlight the confident victory of bres dynamo over shakhtar 3:0, we will record the fifth consecutive victory of slutsk. this time, the sakharniki were. stronger than dnepr 3:2. smarkun and minsk tied 1:1, with the townspeople failing to convert two penalties. this is what the tournament table looks like. in the absence of minsk dynamo, neman is now at the top. torpedo bela dropped to second place. brest is fourth, vitebsk is fifth. there are changes at the bottom. minsk has swum out of the direct relegation zone and is now fourteenth. dnepr, mogilev and shakhtyor are currently the two worst

teams in the top league. the next nineteenth round will start on august 23. and now. minsk is preparing for a battle against breidablik from iceland, starts on september 4. the opponents are serious, but...

this match is already the fifth home pre-season match on the ice of the capital's olimpikarena. dmitry kvartalny's squad lost to the army men 2:4. the white-blues scored the pucks to sergei kuznetsov and andrey stas. well , the opponent started better, more actively. and won everything with such a fight. in the second period, they seemed

to have turned the tide, scored a goal, tied it. well, there was an unpleasant rebound, i think it knocked us down a little. and... as for the dynamo squad, almost all the bayonets are already in the ranks, this is refers to the legionnaires, in minsk it remains to wait only for dillon dube. let us recall that the zubry signed six north americans to the defense line for the season. the general manager of the white-blues oleg antonenko explained the motivation for this decision in the arena program. the signing and selection of the game. is carried out jointly with the coaching staff, therefore we take into account any recommendations or wishes of the coaching staff, the key moment in the selection this year was to strengthen the defense, therefore the first thing we did was to strengthen the defense.