The program has three segments.

The first segment is also the third part of a multi-part series of programs about Belarusian historian and ethnographer, Mitrafan Doŭnar-Zapol’ski, whose 50th death anniversary was observed in 1984. In this segment, the journalist Iazyp Barėika analyses the Doŭnar-Zapol’ski’s article “Belaruskae Minulae” (“Belarusian Past”) written in 1888, which, according to Barėika, represents author’s main ideas and concepts of Belarusian national history and the role of the national language and culture in historical past and future of any nationality, including Belarusians. (See programs 2000C120.2167 and 2000C120.2168 for the first and second parts of this series.)

The second segment is a sketch by the journalist Vasil’ Krupski “Dva Tvaria Savetskaha Sėrvisu” (“Two Faces of Soviet Service”) about retail and service industry in Belarus. The author contrasts the quality of products and level of customer service offered to common people, whose access to consumer goods and services often depends on bribe and blat (system of informal connections and exchanges of services), and to Soviet officials, who are usually served through the system of special stores and services.

The third segment is a narration in Belarusian of an interview of a former Soviet soldier, Vladislav Naumov, who took the side of Mujahideen forces in Afghanistan. The interview was conducted by the journalist Fatima Salkazanova in Pakistan. Naumov answered the questions about his life before he was drafted to the Soviet army, the level of awareness and attitudes toward the Soviet-Afghan War in the USSR, and about his military service in Afghanistan, particularly about bulling in the Soviet army, the level of war casualties among the Soviet soldiers, and punitive operations and cruel treatment against local population by the Soviet military forces.