Notes of the failed "chemist"

"I always wanted to write. Secretly. I didn't particularly hope that something worthwhile would come out of it. But it started to work. First, graphomanskie articles. Then it was better. My own style appeared. I always loved this state of "arrival", when you, as it were, sit at the loom and form interesting verbal patterns from your thoughts.

Unnoticeably, I became a columnist for glossy magazines, a blogger for a marketing community portal. It was a fat and carefree time from 2008 to 2018. Blinded by consumerism and vices, we did not notice what was really happening in our country. It was very convenient to live in the center of Minsk, hang out on Oktyabrskaya and not pay attention to what is happening in the KGB cells just a few hundred meters from you.

Thank heaven, we saw! Now I'm safe. And when they ask me why I decided to write a diary or whether I am a masochist, if I am ready to dive into these experiences again, I have only one answer: we must witness all the crimes after the 2020 elections. If this had been done in time before 2020, then, quite possibly, it would have been possible to avoid such a level of violence, mutilated destinies and bitter tears." (Aleksandr Demidovich)