Chapter 554: A country rich in beautiful women
In Europe, Ye Chao heard that there is a country that is flooded with beautiful women, and that country happens to be adjacent to Poland called Belarus.
When it comes to Belarus, whether it is the Western world or the Eastern countries, the first impression of this country is that there are many beautiful women.
Belarus, a small country in Eastern Europe, is a country that imports other strategic resources such as oil, gas, coal and steel from abroad, in addition to timber. However, this country with a population of only 10 million and relatively poor natural resources has another kind of resource ——— beauties that others envy.
In the 90s of the 20th century, Belarus, which had embarked on the road to independence, had a very difficult economy, and the standard of living of the people fell sharply.
Many internationally renowned modeling agencies are scrambling to hire "Miss Belarus" with multimillion-dollar contracts, and there are also criminal syndicates that have abducted and sold a large number of Belarusian beauties to Western countries.
So there was a scene where President Lukashenko decided to declare war on the phenomenon of "beauty exports".
Lukashenko believes that the outflow of beautiful women is a very serious problem, and for Belarus, which has a small population, a large number of the best women are lost to the West, which will directly affect the quality structure of the country's population.
Therefore, the Belarusian government has listed beauty as a "strategic resource" of the state, strengthening control over the departure of beautiful women, that is, restrictive measures against young women who go abroad at the invitation of foreign modeling agencies.
After 2005, any beautiful girl who wants to go abroad to become a model has to get government approval. Otherwise, these beauties, as well as the modeling agencies that "export" them abroad, will be heavily fined.
The winner of Miss Belarus receives not only a significant amount of money, but also a range of benefits.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Belarus tracks Belarusian beauties who marry foreigners and protects their rights. As soon as a foreign man is found to be bullying his Belarusian wife, he intervenes and even prompts a divorce and expels the foreign man from the country.
For example, an 18-year-old Afghan man who married a 30-year-old Belarusian girl, and a 22-year-old Vietnamese guy who married a 46-year-old Belarusian girl, often abused his wife after marriage, was warned by the Belarusian Ministry of Internal Affairs.
According to Ye Chao's knowledge, in 2010, the Belarusian authorities allowed 621 foreigners to marry Belarusian girls and live in Belarus, and by the end of the year, 155 had their residency revoked.
Belarusian beauties used to be mostly willing to marry Westerners, but in recent years, more and more Belarusian girls want to marry Chinese guys because they have a gentle personality, do not drink heavily, can do housework, and have better prospects for development in China.
"The loss of our beauties to the West is a great loss and undermines the dignity of the country, and we will never allow young girls to be trafficked. There is no need for Belarusian beauties to go abroad, they have enough room for development in the country. ”
At the beginning of 2005, Belarusian President Lukashenko's words kicked off the prelude to the battle for beauty.
Now, Ye Chao has left Poland and come to this country.
Located in the heart of Europe, Belarus is a landlocked country bordered by Russia, Latvia, Poland, Lithuania and Ukraine. Belarus has a total land area of 207,600 square kilometers, with a distance of 560 kilometers from north to south and 650 kilometers from east to west. The territory is the 13th largest in Europe in terms of area.
The Republic of Belarus, abbreviated as Belarus, is a landlocked country located in Eastern Europe with its capital Minsk, which gained independence from the Soviet Union on August 25, 1991.
It was renamed the Republic of Belarus on December 19 of the same year.
Bordered by Russia to the east and north, Ukraine to the south and Poland, Lithuania and Latvia to the west, Belarus has a land area of 207,600 square kilometers and a population of 9,689,800 (2008), most of whom live near Minsk or other large cities, and nearly 80% of the population is a native Belarusian.
The main ethnic minorities are, in order, Russians, Poles and Ukrainians.
After 1995, Belarusian and Russian were set as official languages, and the Belarusian constitution did not explicitly stipulate the state religion, but the majority of people believed in Orthodox Christianity, followed by Catholicism, and many Christian holidays, such as Easter, were set as national holidays.
Belarus is one of the former Soviet republics, declared independence on August 25, 1991, and changed to "Republic of Belarus" on December 19, 1991, referred to as "Belarus", the old translation of "Belolusia", self-proclaimed "Belaros".
Belarus has a relatively well-developed industrial base, with a relatively developed and advanced machinery manufacturing industry, metallurgical processing industry, machine tool and laser technology, a relatively developed IT industry, and a well-developed agriculture and animal husbandry industry.
Belarus has established a customs union with Russia and Kazakhstan, and the trend of economic and military integration with Russia and Kazakhstan is gradually strengthening.
Belarusians are a branch of the East Slavic ethnic group.
In the 9th-11th centuries, most of its territory belonged to Kievan Rus'.
A number of feudal principalities were established in the 12th century, including the principalities of Polotsk and Turov-Pinsk.
From the 14th century onwards, it was annexed several times by the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Russian Empire.
After the victory of the October Revolution in Russia in 1917, Soviet power was established in Belarus, and most of Belarus was occupied by Germany until the defeat of the German Empire in World War I in 1918.
On January 1, 1919, the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic was established. After World War I, Poland was restored, and the Soviet-Polish War broke out, and Soviet Russia ceded Western Belarus and Western Ukraine to the Second Polish Republic.
On December 3, 1922, Eastern Belarus joined the Soviet Union as a founding country.
In 1939, Poland was divided and occupied by the Third German Reich and the Soviet Union, and Western Belarus was incorporated into the Pleorussian Soviet Socialist Republic. In 1941, the Soviet-German war broke out, and Belarus was occupied by German troops.
In June 1944, Soviet troops liberated Belarus.
In 1945, Belarus joined the United Nations as a member of the Soviet Union.
On 27 July 1990, the Supreme Soviet of Belarus adopted the Declaration on Sovereignty. On 25 August 1991, Belarus declared its independence from the Soviet Union, and on 19 December the name of the country was changed to the "Republic of Belarus".
Minsk is located in the central part of Belarus, established as a region in 1938 with the capital Minsk, the capital of Belarus, with a population of 1.92 million (as of April 1, 2014), and is the political, economic and cultural center of the country.
Almost razed to the ground during World War II, it was rebuilt after the war and became an important industrial center of Belarus.
Minsk is home to several higher education institutions, including the Belarusian National University, as well as famous circuses, opera houses and ballet theatres.
Belarus is rich in beauties, and Minsk is a representative of it.
Minsk also has Victory Square, the Island of Tears, the National Museum of the History of the Great Patriotic War, the Cathedral of the Holy Spirit, the Belovezh National Forest Park, the Hill of Glory and many other attractions. Named after Minsk is the aircraft carrier Minsk.