Eternal values
Very big family The dearest wish of one of the best mechanizers of Molodechno District is for his grandchildren to live in peaceful, calm Belarus, not knowing hunger and devastation
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— Grandpa, grandpa! —.as if on com‑ mand, the kids rushed forward along the thorny stubble, when the machine opera‑ tor turned off the engine of his Amkodor It looked like nothing on earth! After all, 20 grandchildren, raising dust, rushed on the field to their grandfather. They hugged him, some asked to be taken into his arms, others wanted to sit in the cab of the tractor, the others were funnily climbing up a haystack. In this noise, fun a photographer tried to catch touching mo‑ ments. And only grandfather Franz, happy, but a little embarrassed, from time to time looked at the sun: there was a couple of hours until sunset, the weather was fine, so many straw rolls he could have unloaded,
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but he was being distracted. But we in‑ sisted: Franz Luzhinsky, a simple rural worker, one of the best mechanizers of not only Molodechno District Agroservice, but of the whole district, and his “sit cozily, so as not to fall down” — 4 daughters and 33 grandchildren deserve the front page in our newspaper! It took a lot of effort to gather three generations of the Luzhynskys in one place on a weekday. But it was worth it. The fam‑ ily is amazing and incredibly close-knit: if there is construction — they do it together, and if it’s a holiday — all the more! And holidays are not uncommon for them. Franz and Klavdiya used to live in Ka‑ zakhstan for half a century and returned
to their historic homeland in 2010. And put down new roots very deep! Here is a fact to confirm it: 22 out of 33 grandchil‑ dren were born in Belarus. It is not difficult to calculate: in the last decade, let’s call it “Belarusian”, every year there was a dou‑ ble replenishment of the Luzhinskys. They have 17 grandsons and 16 granddaughters. The eldest, Dima, is serving in the army, the youngest Elina is still a baby. — We went to Belarus following our children, and today I do not regret it, — confesses the mechanizer. — Natasha was the first to settle in Molodechno. Then Anyuta came to stay. She liked it, found a job, got married. In 2007, Alesya and her family headed for Belarus. For me and
