Strangers filming former political prisoner, 85-year-old Tsimoh Vostrykau
Strangers have filmed and talked to a 85-year-old Tsimoh Vostrykau, a former political prisoner of Bolshevist concentration camps. They were accompanied by a Homel KGB affiliate member, reports BelaPAN.
Tsіmoh Vostrykau was returned to his motherland from outside the iron curtain in August 1952 as a representative of the Council of the Belarusian Peoples’ Republic. He was suddenly arrested and spent 23 years in concentration camps.
He did not lose his courage in prison, he organized Belarusian political prisoners and spoke only Belarusian. After he had been released, Vostrykau settled in Homel.
A Homel activist of the steering committee of creation of the “Belarusian Christian Democracy” party Kanstantsin Zhukouski described his current condition to ERB:
“He is in a very bad condition now. He cannot talk. He only keeps calling: “Nina, Nina…” (Nina Ivanauna is the woman looking after him). He is feeling a lot of pain, there are haematomas all over him. In short, he is suffering from a fatal illness”.
Strangers with a camera were interested in the details of his transportation to Belarus and in his acquaintances who live in the West now. That’s what Kanstantsin Zhukouski thinks about the purpose of their visit:
“They wanted to find out something that Vostrykau did not tell anyone in Minsk when he was in prison”.
Let us note that Vostrykau wrote memoirs in the 1990s but he did not want them to be published during his lifetime. In one interview he mentioned that he had hidden everything.
Tsіmoh Vostrykau was returned to his motherland from outside the iron curtain in August 1952 as a representative of the Council of the Belarusian Peoples’ Republic. He was suddenly arrested and spent 23 years in concentration camps.
He did not lose his courage in prison, he organized Belarusian political prisoners and spoke only Belarusian. After he had been released, Vostrykau settled in Homel.
A Homel activist of the steering committee of creation of the “Belarusian Christian Democracy” party Kanstantsin Zhukouski described his current condition to ERB:
“He is in a very bad condition now. He cannot talk. He only keeps calling: “Nina, Nina…” (Nina Ivanauna is the woman looking after him). He is feeling a lot of pain, there are haematomas all over him. In short, he is suffering from a fatal illness”.
Strangers with a camera were interested in the details of his transportation to Belarus and in his acquaintances who live in the West now. That’s what Kanstantsin Zhukouski thinks about the purpose of their visit:
“They wanted to find out something that Vostrykau did not tell anyone in Minsk when he was in prison”.
Let us note that Vostrykau wrote memoirs in the 1990s but he did not want them to be published during his lifetime. In one interview he mentioned that he had hidden everything.
