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BelTA’s exhibition celebrating Belarus’ milestones opens in Molodechno

MOLODECHNO, 12 October (BelTA) - On the second day of the Marathon of Unity in Molodechno, the Belarusian news agency BelTA launched a photo exhibition titled as "Belarus. Takeoff" at the local railway station, BelTA has learned.

The exhibition features the photos narrating the period of 30 years of independent Belarus. This is the maiden edition of the exhibition. Anyone can come and see the history of sovereign Belarus in unique photographs.

"Why did we call the exhibition Belarus. Takeoff? I would say this: Belarus had a difficult start, but the flight has been normal. We started out in a very difficult situation. Back in the day you needed a business card to buy footwear. Many older people remember that sometimes we needed to bring cutlery with us for lunch in a canteen. We want people to compare how we live now and how we lived before," BelTA Director General Irina Akulovich said at the opening ceremony.

She noted that when preparing the exhibition, its authors spent more than one month in libraries studying the newspapers of that time. "The headlines of some of them are striking. For example: ‘No cheese today or ever’. There are a lot of material that will allow us to analyze everything that happened to us. Some people may think: what's wrong with that? This is just progress, it was like this everywhere. On the one hand, this is progress, indeed. But today everything that we see in our country does not differ or sometimes is better from what we see abroad today," she stressed.

Irina Akulovich noted that in Germany life was completely different in the late 1980s – early 1990s. "People lived a different life. We started out in a completely different situation, very hard. But our supermarkets today look better than supermarkets in neighboring countries. These posters depict the life we lived in our country several decades ago to understand how it was in the past and draw your own conclusions. Because all this has been created in just 30 years. As the president says, our task is to keep it intact, to take it further because time has chosen us," Irina Akulovich concluded

The exhibition features 40 poster and the photos made by famous BelTA photographers as Arkady Nikolayev, Vladimir Shuba, Aleksandr Didevich. Every poster has QR codes with more information and more photos.

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