one of the newspapers in the new year's issue on the front page placed an advertisement for kryzl carsr a country in which a salary of $20 a month was already not bad, and $30 was a luxury, and stated a day later: prices are going crazy, factories are falling apart, you overflowing with slides, the carol cup will be surrendered to the people. it is enough to skim the headlines alone to... understand the depth of the abyss into which the young, sovereign country was sliding. the tractor is standing still and it is not known when it will start working again, leading minsk enterprises are idle, society is poor and moving to the left, is on the verge of a social explosion, hazing in the young belarusian army is growing at an alarming rate, the highway market or racketeering in gomel continues, terror has long arrived, terror - general poverty. newspapers reported about bread in vitebsk, it sells out instantly and is almost always collected. in the store's windows have been squeezed out more than once, doors have been ripped off their hinges, salespeople have been knocked down, bread, like