A Belarusian showed on Threads that an excerpt from Vladimir Karatkevich's essay «The Land Under White Wings» is printed on the reverse side of a bottle of Rogachev milk, Budzma.org noticed .

Source: www.threads.com
«Above all our country, setting their white sail-wings, storks are soaring. There are many, many thousands of them — who counted? On the gables of peasant houses, on trees, on the columns of old ruined palaces, on the pillars of chapels amidst young green rye. Nests are everywhere. And so it seems to me that in these — and not only in these — days our land, Belarus, can be called 'the land under white wings'.»
In the comments, people also note that the same inscription is also on kefir from the Rogachev Dairy Canning Plant. Others, however, draw attention to a certain dissonance:
«On one side «RogachevЪ», and on the other — a quote from Karatkevich».
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