Belarus
This is the capital of Belarus, ex-Soviet Belorussia - the Minsk city. They say it is the most clean city on the territory of ex USSR.
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First!! Pretty Good~
vey similar to Pyong yang , north Korean capital, nice and big boulevard, clean streets all for show! They are only fooling themselves lol. I feel sorry for the people!
Gurpreet, why do you feel you have to come here continuosly spouting your venom?
Some of the things you say are correct but you’ve gone over the deep end with this one.
and i feel sorry for how bitter and spiteful you are, you must have a very miserable life to have so much anger in u, relax, if u were a nicer person you wouldnt be so unhappy
The expensive part of Moscow doesnt also look bad, but just go off from center and its fucked up.
fucked up? Moscow isnt that bad… Go to Bucharest if you want to see fucked up
Pretty cool!!! I want to visit Belorussia!!!
Прикольно и в натуре, так чисто! В принципе, таким мог быть СССР, если бы не распался!
The right name is Belarus - not Belorussia.
Belarus and Belorussia are the same name, “smart guy”!
It`s like Moldova and Moldavia, Kirgiziya and Kyrgyzstan!
Do you understand honey?
Asshole, I’m from Belarus and I know what I’m saying. “Belorussia” is the way russians namy my country, but it is only an underlining of its former status as a part of the soviet union. Now it is a sovereign state and has it’s own name. Is that clear? I am 99% per cent sure that you are exactly from Russia. Тупы маскаль!
Ага, если бы не распался, то в лучшем случае был бы таким же, как и до распада - грязным и убогим
Impressive! Nice one ER.
wow, notice how Belarussia has no ads for coka cola or pepsi or any of those western conglomerants, thats a country I would love to live in.
They have them, also others like Rostika the Russian version of KFC. Beer and Nescafe coffee you see a lot.
Bela-Kola
yes man you would definitely live in Belarus, nice country with dictatorship and minimum wage of 300 dollars a month, also the price for goods equivalent to Europe and USA.
its good to visit and enjoy its beauty than live in it….
Maybe it’s because nobody lives there?
Ok i kid i kid. It is very nice and clean. Refreshing to see.
you noticed! ! ! !all belarussians are moving to the great homeland Russia as is logical! ! ! !land of milk and honey and freedom and big appartments! ! ! !
are other Nashi members here on ER? !?! !?
LOL.. belarus will not move anywhere!
thay will stay independent state, not puppet of RUSSIA!
Time will decide,dude! ! ! ! ! ! ! !we can`t tolerate our landlocked brothers in economic difficulties.brothers again join one nation.i think nowadays use of “little force” is the best way to high speed “reunification”.! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
the last totalitarian state in europe
With clean streets for all to see.
No beggars or junkies.
No invalids. No unemployment.
No queers or lesbians.
No criminality.
?
Where the hell are the people?!
They’re all there, my wife has a friend in Gomel who is gay, beggers and drunks are not seen so much in the main public areas as in the residential areas it seems. Homelessness is not a problem and there are a lot of people who take advantage of the system they don’t work ect and have a place to live basics provided for them. Most beggers I have seen hang around the public parks. You will see invalids on the trains, deaf people mostly selling books of word games and old magazines. I always buy a couple from them. I have never seen criminals, I hear their lot is bad. N ot undeserved either IMO.
The last “totalitarian” state in europe?
And so what?
None of the white ruskis I know from there seem to mind. The country is improving.
You have to be seriously cynical to knock what is shown in these pictures.
Strange name “white ruskis”. Actually the right way to say is Belarusians. And a direct translation of the name can mislead anyone. It’s not Russia, and people are very different from Russians.
Are you stupid Bretoniec???
Who did you said that Russians and Belorusian are very different people??? Do not speak bull shit! So If you`re from Usa - then i can understand you.
But you should to know: Russians, Belorussians and Ukrainians - we are the very native nations. A lot of russians r livin` in Ukraine and Belorussia, a lot of Ukrainians and Belorrussians are livin` or workin` in Russia.
So to the next time: if you DON`T know something - just don`t tell about it to everybody.
Listen to me, you “mexican russian”. First of all, as I have already replied to your post above, I AM FROM BELARUS! Is that once again clear?! Therefore I am more in the topic than you are!!! My attitude towards russians is very complicated, as well as of many other people in Belarus! And the difference is really great between our people. So who are you to tell me the right way of pronouncing the name of MY country? And, finally, improve your English, as it is sometimes very diffucult to understand what you are writing. The one who is really stupid is you!
I just LOVE Russians always shouting that Belorussians, Ukrainians and Russians are the SAME. They just don’t get that there is an actual difference even though our nations have the same roots. But we took different ways a long time ago - the thing which you can’t understand. You always think that we have the same mentality, the same traditions, even some Russians think that for example Ukrainian language was “invented” after the collapse of the USSR. This is incredible, I heard it myself. Anyway, what I’m trying to say, that Ukrainians are not Russians and we are fed up of hearing that we’re your little brothers etc and I hope that Ukraine and Russia will never unite again. We have already 70 years of horrible experience being in the USSR. That’ more than enough. But what make’s me laugh is when I say that I love my country, Russians tell me that I’m a nationalist, when a Russian says that he loves his country - he’s a patriot. Unfortunately (for you), that will never change in your minds.
Well when you get right down to it, Canadians and Americans are pretty much the same, just as Argentinians and Brazilians are similar, the same way Spaniards and Portuguese are the same.
Of course they’re not the EXACT SAME people, but they are similar. Belorussians are more similar to Russians than they are Americans or Portuguese, so it’s not completely offensive to say that they are the same kind of people, because they are. Not completely, but still very similar in relation to the rest of the world.
There is no need for anger over this subject. Nobody was talking about governments and politics, so there is no need to bring it up to fight over it. Everyone is a patriotic for their own country; this is the internet though, there is no need to bring it up constantly.
Why can’t everyone just sit back, relax, and enjoy the beautiful pictures of Belarus? Why ruin it with arguments…
The russian and belorussian languages differ but not so much. People in these countries are similar. I’ve been to Belarus, and everytime i was talking to locals and i could not understand who was before me: russian or belorussian. Maybe it because of that everybody there is speaking russian good.
If you don’t mind being thrown up in jail for your expressing opinions, you might enjoy it. Come on. Freedom of speech, anyone?
Pic 28 is Goldmember
photoshoped!
City of Hero, I saw this slogan in Kiev as well. Is it common for ex-soviet countries’ capital?
Man!there is one thing in common between almost all cities of “eastern front” heroic struggle against Nazi advance.i am sure,because of Soviet/Russian sacrifices,this world is saved from Nazi rule.we salute all Hero cities of CCCP.Can U ASS give us any example of his “hero city”?????????????
Yes, and now we are waiting for the Russian forces which are going to liberate the world from the Nashi’s.
what you have against Nashi’s!!!?!?!? Nashi is future of Russia! ! ! ! !we train to be the new leaders not corrupted by “”Democracy” like U ASSS! ! ! ! we kick out duraks like kasparov and his puppets! ! !! U ASS puppets! ! !!
fail
soviet sacrifices? 
LOL
soviets was the same evil as nazi! learn history at last!
Yeah,yeah,yeah…Soviets is orks. They had no culture, history, literacy and social norms. And no woman and childrens. Only evil armed mans. Bomb it all.
No, that’s not about being capital. “City-The-Hero” was official award for cities whose citizens demonstrated outstanding mass heroism during WWII. Awarder cities were Moscow, St.Petersburg, Stalingrad, Kiev, Odessa, Sevastopol, Brest Fortress, Novorossijsk, Kerch, Minsk, Tula, Murmansk and Smolensk ( http://maps.google.com/?q=http://googis.info/load/0-0-0-571-20 is aKMZ file for Google Earth that highlight all of them)
The title was awarded to the cities of former USSR subjected to the harshest attacks or those resisting for the longest period of time etc., not automatically to the capitals.
Other examples are e.g. Leningrad or Sevastopol.
People in Belarus enjoy few civil rights, but at least there is one positive aspect of their dictatorship, as can be seen in those pictures.
Dictatorship? Really?
While Georgia and Saudi Arabia are of course “democratic”, as the Telegraph and the Fox news would have you believe? 
Totalitarism != Dictatorship , be carefull with words.
In way of the topic , totalitarism is nice.
We love Russian style “democracy” .don`t compare East side of Europe with so called”constitutional monarchies” of some most democratic countries.yes we can learn some principals and the soul of the true peoples desires but not empty words or copying another alien “democratic” traditions! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !.Putin is more democratic leader rather than U ASS`s Bush! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
But that doesn’t make him a democrat yet.
I will choose “less evil” .Putin was elected two times president of Russia and “3rd” time PM.one can`t point towards Putin`s believe on “democratic values”.we hate “imported” democratic system from “head of evil states” ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !.don`t teach and preach us.
Yes, and you, don’t do the same. And learn your constitution, prime ministers are not elected in Russia. And I wouldn’t say that Putin is the lesser evil, he is at least twice as corrupt as George Bush, and don’t forget he is a former Gestapo - oops, I mean KGB officer, but that is the same anyway.
Yes! ! ! !i do aware of Honorable dear Prime minister`s past “assignment” in former “East GermanCCP”.he(Putin)always done his job very well.like in chechen insurgency and he used his best efforts to re structure the almost collapsed and default economy.he is the “hero of Russian nation”.election or selection is not the problem of Russian peoples.U ASS always try to stop his challenger from the collapse of CCCP,but time is so changed.but yellow nation will soon able to do some”amazing stunts”in near future.under the guidance of great Russian nation! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !.
Hey Too much vodka, don’t forget that Bush=CIA.
And Truman was Ku-Klux-Klan.
Which is no excuse for Putin being a man dangerous to children and other living creatures.
Wait a minute, this is a quotation - I think it originally goes “War is dangerous to children and other living creatures”. I wonder where it comes from?
CZenda, Re: Truman. I have never heard that before. But I do know that Truman desegregated the U.S. military in 1948.
There was nothing to choose from so many did not even bother to vote.
And like in soviet times, people were tricked into voting stations with free food and drinks. So it would look like many were voting. Like a democracy.
Before talking about the “dictatorship” in Belarus you should go there to see the things with your own eyes. 90 percent of locals are standing for Lukashenko. Those, who against him can talk about it free. Not so bad with enjoying civil rights as they say. It seems, that somebody in the West and in Russia is interested in forming the negative image of this country. I’ve been there and seen no beggars, drunkards and whores in the streets and minority of caucasians, who fucked up all the russian big cities. I wonder, who is keeping that law and order, one can’t see a lot of police. Of course, i enjoyed cleanliness and wonderful sights of Minsk and the belarus countryside. I think, that these two things don’t deal with the policy at all.
I was in St. Peterburg last week and it was very clean too…
Clean? St:Petersburg? It rare to hear these two words mentioned together. Dont get me wrong the city is really beatiful, but lets be honest the streets there are full of shit. And most houses in despared need of preparation.
I hope soon two “very clean” countries will re join hands with again “very clean” constitutional way ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !.RUSSIA and BELARUS! ! ! ! ! ! (i hope FEW more are in the “cleaning processing”)! ! ! ! ! ! !
Russia great ? And clean ?
So why do 18 year old boys have to be chased on the streets by army recruiters - well, they do not want to be a part of the ‘effective’ Russian army, which in reality means digging ditches, building datcha’s for their commanders and doing other meaningless things for two years. Firing a gun is hardly practised, as hard to believe as it might be.
In Georgia the officers even had to use their private cell phones to report to the base camps because the communications infrastructure is outdated at least 20 years.
The Russian army is not up to modern warfare and needs enormous financial injections. So save the rhetorics for your next Nashi meeting.
Looks really nice, I would definitely love to visit it!
Looks very similar to Kyiv in 1995.
The total absence of ads makes it look very Soviet. Admittedly, Soviet buildings were dirtier.
Compare and contrast North Korea:
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/09/recent_scenes_from_north_korea.html
Gods, anything is better than North Korea.
Democracy was killed by politicians. If you want to test a mans character, give him power. You do the math…
God bless Belarusia, Russia and Ukraine!
And “china” ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
God knows they need it
Even the cat is clean.
People from some Balarus villages say that Minsk is a dirty place if compared to the countryside
That’s not a cat. That’s the devil. And it’s home right where it’s supposed to be - in front of the church headquarters.
It looks like Minsk is home to 100 people.
The population is almost 2 million people.
Cool, I’ll visit Belarus soon.
Just curious, is it legally punishable in Belarus (or in Russia) if somebody throw a trash on the street (like in Singapore)? Otherwise, this city is unreasonably clean like the capital of North Korea, I guess. However, I would love to visit there!
Unfortunately, there’s no such punish here.
No, it’s not punishable. And it is really incorrect to compare Belarus and North Korea. Belarus is certainly an authoritarian state, but not a dictatorship, if you compare it to Zimbabwe, North Korea, Myanmar etc. Just because it is really a European state with long and complicated European history. And people recognize themselves as Europeans, not like in Russia…
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It’s so clean, it seems a bit creepy.
Very nice. A beautiful city.
После я посмотрел эти картинки я сильно поскучал по моему родному городу! Через пару лет туда поеду, но я не дождусь. Спасибо за фотки!
Only just a little more to the West and already so much nicer
Beautiful city indeed. Slav style fascinates me in a strange way.
Nice looking city, well maintained. But too empty for a country with a healthy economy, and at least a bit of freedom.
are there black people at all?
Photograph numbering 28, the statue angel… it be concidered good luck to rub his KRUM. All the childrens are taught too do this. See how it shines?
I rubbed it once and wished for healthier chickens. I am still waiting on wish.
Black cat in front of the church HQs - excellent find.
Polished genitals of an angel… interesting
Who’s version of history should I learn?
My,my, my, ! ! ! ! ! ! !pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
is there no way to ban this man from the website?
It looks like Sweden. It always shocks me when I go to Sweden and see how insanely clean and well-kempt the cities are.
you are insane moron! ! ! !!sweden is corrupted socialist state not like RoSSIYA!!!!!better stay in russia and enjoy benefits of “”guided democracy”" like in BELARUS! ! ! !Soon all will be clean and tidy with nice queues everywhere of peoples waiting for their turn to buy shopings!!!no hassles no opositions messing things up!!!!
PUTIN is the great vacuumcleaner cleaning away all that is nasty and we NASHI are backing him!!!! ROSSIYA unite! ! ! !!
there will be less russians but they will be better! ! ! ! and orderly ! ! !
Amazing! ! ! !.i like and enjoy your sentence about Putin very well,”Putin is the great vacumecleanr”.please carry on your “timely”comments! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !.
Are you having an interior monologue ?
Great Country, Great People. Friends of Russia.
nationalistic dribble pisses me off though. Who cares, Russian, BeloRussian, Ukrainian are different but we have more in common than you think. We will all be re-united soon.
diversity is what makes us strong. Long live the Russian Empire!
Wow, you fail so much. People voulentarily join the Russian army, and the term is 1 year, retard.
Russian soldiers are extremely well disipilned, well trained and have a high morale. They also carry high quality equipment (and are extremely well equipped).
The problem lies in lack of modern hardware, like t-90’s and Su-35’s etc.
So STFU RETARD BOGATYR, LEARN WHAT U TALK ABOUT FUCKFACE.
City looks nice but boring with no nightlife. When is ER going to post photo of Almaty Kazahkstan?
Many thanks for the photos! Back in the 1980s, I had a chance to visit many parts of the Soviet Union, from the Baltic states to Butyatia to Kyrgysia to Abkhazia, and much in between. Was in Minsk in 1982 and 1990 and was extraordinarily impressed by its spaciousness, cleaniness, and the gracious friendliness and openness of its people. Nearly 20 years and dosens of cities in Europe, Asia and North America later, Minsk still occupies a very special place in my memory. Thank you very much for letting me know Minsk is still a beautiful place. Alas, Moscow circa 2008 is a bordello. No, a whorehouse.
Some facts about Belarus that I found just now:
* 1/3 of its people perished in WWII. 2/3 of all adult men were killed. In relative terms, no other peoples suffered as much at the hands of the German Nazis as the Byelorussians but the European Jewry. Just imagine that. Such nice people - all went up in arms against foreign invaders.
* According to a 2007 World Bank report, Belarus’ GDP (PPP) is 59th in the world (out of 167 ranked nations), at $10,850. That is better than any post-USSR state save the Baltics and Russia. Not bad at all.
Glad to know you all hate each other as much as, if not more, than you hate Texas or “U ASS” as y’all so fondly refer to it.
Question…How can y’all even pretend to know what’s going on, in your own countries no less, when you don’t even have a free press?.. I’m sincerely curious. Answers or replies anyone?..
quess what, redneck. we all just being honest between ourselfs. and do you have a guts to tell that about you? or instead when you going abroad you just putting mapple leaf on your bag?
I have looked at the script.,
my native city!! lov it!
Long Live Belarus!
IN BELARUS
COMUNISM COMES TRUE !
that´s because there is no capitalism like in other ex-soviet countries
All what you’ve said is just priceless. I can’t stop smiling. Dude, you made my day.
Where did you get this information anyway?
“People voulentarily join the Russian army” - Seriously???
I’ve never heard more crap than this. All the mothers in Russia are crying about their sons going to the army, becasue they just don’t have a chice. And many, if not all of Russian young men are trying to avoid it by buying false medical certificates that they aren’t fit for the military service. So, stop fooling yourself. I just can’t decide if you are so naive or so dumb!
Heyyy… wait a minute… what’s wrong with Bucharest??? It’s a great, eclectic city!
Anyways, Minsk is amazing, gotta admit it!
This is beautiful, clean and nice looking city!
czesc jestem Damain i pozdrawiam wszystkich polaków