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Braslaw

narrow-gauge railway station (currently, apartment building). Farmers’cooperative Rolnik (Eng. – farmer). The first bakery. Polish gymnasium. Wooden school. The colony of civil servants’ apartments (arch. Juliuz Klos) of “ethnic” Zakopane style. Powiat elder’s house where even the President of Poland used to stay. The building of Powiat eldership administration. Sports house (currently, library). Local Lore Museum – Brother’s Magat printing house decorated by carvings.
About the visit of the Polish Minister and the “goat war” with the residents. About the only remaining stoneware paving, called The Road of Wishes. You will learn about a monument to Stalin in the park, which some were taking to drown in the ponds while others were shouting “Dear Jozif, don’t give up!” You will hear the sounds of Halliaš Saliava’s Jew’s harp and bagpipe. We will learn about the legend of a Swedish general who did not manage to go through the ford: soldiers carried him shouting “Throw it, throw it!” (Brosay, brosay!, orig. Бросай, бросай!). We will get acquainted with the grandmother of Halliash Saliava and her family history: the father served in the Polish army and then in the British army.

What people say
from the eye and from the heart
Bronislava Zhukovskaya,
contemporary
My father didn’t come back here until Stalin’s death. Because all who came back to Belarus were exiled to Siberia. So, the father was also afraid to come back, he didn’t see a mother for 25 years.
Bronislava Zhukovskaya,
contemporary
Today there’s not much good here. Everything is suppressed, constrained. In a sense, we are free but on the other hand, that Lukashenko trapped us. Just don’t tell anyone what I have said.
Anna Mazarevich,
historian
The town is actually near the ford – where two lakes, Noviata and Dryviata, meet, there’s a strait between them.
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