17-year-old guy lives in a basement. He wrapped himself in the red-green flag so Lukashenka would notice him
Last year, an alcoholic father kicked Lyova out of the apartment. Now the guy dreams of becoming an artist, but sees no other options to get onto the big stage than to reach Lukashenka through TikTok.

The guy himself is from Krupki. During his school years, he performed at concerts. On TikTok, Lev shared why, at 17, he is forced to live in a basement. It all happened last summer. His father didn't work anywhere and drank a lot. He usually came home when ordinary people's alarms were about to ring.

Scandals at home were a common occurrence. Lev periodically asked his father to stop drinking and find a job. He ignored his son's tears. And so, once again, the man returned home drunk.
— We approached him with mom and said: "Dad, but you promised that tomorrow you would go with the guys to work in Moscow..." You know, that hit him so hard... He started shouting: "You're going to teach me! Who are you?!"
His father began to brutally beat Lyova's mother. At that moment, the teenager thought he would simply kill both his mother and him. The guy called the police. His father, seeing this, hit one last time and ran out of the apartment. But then he still returned — and started fighting with the policemen.
It was after this incident that the man decided to kick his son out of the apartment — he wanted to punish him for calling the police.
— The last words he said to me were: "You're a f*ck-up, you won't achieve anything. You'll remember me."
But Lev suffers most not because of his alcoholic father's behavior, but because of the betrayal of his own grandmother. It is she who owns the very apartment where the guy lived with his parents. He was sure that his grandmother would not let her grandson be on the streets. But she sided with her son, not her grandson.
Lev now lives in a basement in Minsk. He works in delivery — he says there's only enough money for food. Sometimes he plays Korzh on the guitar near Nyamiha.
Lev dreams of becoming a famous musician. He started recording videos (he took the nickname Belarusau), wrapped in the red-green flag. He hopes that Lukashenka will see these videos with his songs on TikTok and make him a real artist.

The lyrics are quite trivial:
"Belarus, my beloved,
Wherever I am, I can't forget you.
You are always so beautiful —
Blue-eyed and white-winged.
You are small compared to Russia,
Not as many people live here as in China.
But no country in the world can compare to you
In kindness, purity, and order.
Cities grow, factories are built.
Beauty all around, forests and lakes,
Peaceful sky, feeling of freedom —
This is the happiness of the common people."
Lev also sings about the West:
"Our neighbors build fences —
They're supposedly afraid we'll attack.
But we are Belarusians, we are peaceful people
And we don't need what's not ours.
People in the West don't understand,
They ignite fires between us
Hoping to destroy everything
That we have created over the years.
And if they ask us who we are,
We will proudly answer: "We are patriots!"
We love our country.
And we will love it until our last breath."
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