Back in the USSR or my country, my own good

In the unstable 90 ...
At the beginning of the second decade of the XXI century in Belarus called money changers who tries to buy the currency at banks, in line for weeks prostaivaya.

Man of the difficult approach to the secret window and buy cherished dollars or euros - to drive away ... Once the banks started to sell to people solely the currency, which is another part of the population before it passed, the situation is exacerbated by the day: MIA states - near exchangers having a fight.

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Rises to 6 in the morning and night shifts.

- My days ... At six in the morning - I wake up, eat breakfast and go to the hypermarket ... Just like that, ... People from the queue on duty at night, 5-7 people constantly, and when you open a hypermarket are on duty cover both inputs at once, lest any chance has not passed, did not take place and did not suit scandal.

You should note in a notebook from 6 to 9 am. If you missed - from the lists crossed off, no matter how much you stood in the queue, a week or two days. Personally, I 'm already five days.

In this notebook, each its own number, as in the Soviet line for lack of. But we now remember your number, or write to your mobile phone.

People take with them chairs, ... Everybody knows each other by sight and by name, greet, get a large family of currency.

Daily verification of the evening ... From 10 to 11 pm - roll all gather in a circle, and there is a certain person who is chosen at random from the first ten, he makes the verification of. And so every day.

From time to turn?.

- New waiting list come every day and write, but those who have defended and bought a currency, go to the second round, at the end. People know about this practice from the neighbors, colleagues, friends, and join the queue with their families, even with young children, who also recorded under a separate number.

Where did the time for people to spend days in queues to stand, I do not know. Change at work, take time off, sick leave, unpaid leave, time off. I work in a taxi, I have a free schedule, so I can easily observed in several hypermarkets. I 'm in the ...

More than $ 1,000 in the hands not to!.

- In the queue there is an agreement - more than $ 1,000 per customer not to buy. And the situation is ...

People pass the currency is quite active, but piecemeal - someone could bring $ 20, others $ 5, others $ 1,000 and.

The line in the ... That is, people sit here and buy a day from 10 to 15 thousand dollars.

Some banks do not even sell that surrenders.

- Day still have time to stand in line to the exchange of a Russian-Belarusian banks, head office. There's no queue entries, she e - when you come, you coupons machine beats with the number and you wait until the room will light up the scoreboard, and you can go to change the.

Operators are obliged to sell the currency, which they passed in front of this. And they were seen cases where they take the currency, but the market is not allowed. Specifically, I got myself into this situation: sitting, waiting, suddenly one of the booths exchanger goes my friend, whom I had not noticed when he came, and said that he had just passed the $ 200. I immediately go into the booth, and there I was told ...

People ask for leave from work, take time off to buy a currency, and these girls just take and do not sell it, I do not know on whose initiative. Bank employees do not have the right during working hours on their own to buy a currency. Near the window hangs exchanger notice that the sale of foreign currency to individuals are only received money. That is, no one would officially like they did not prohibit selling.

But, for example, today we went to the bank manager, said: ...







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