Alexander Lukashenko called Western sanctions against Belarus and its people fascism.
He stated this during a meeting with students of engineering and technical universities at BSUIR.
The President noted that the West imposed restrictions not against him personally, but against the entire republic and all its residents, including students, their parents and relatives.
This is fascism. But they teach us democracy, they demand humanity from us. These are not even double standards, but a complete degradation of human conscience and dignity, the head of state's press service quotes him as saying.
He recalled that Belarus is an export-oriented country and its economy is open.
Therefore, the President believes, it is being “strangled by sanctions, forcing it to seek new markets for sales and supplies of components, the production of which we have not yet mastered.”
Minsk finds them. And the difficulties it has encountered are temporary. Moreover, Lukashenko characterizes this period as a "time of opportunities."
According to him, the sanctions stimulated – “forced us to move, to move forward,” to work more actively in the direction of import substitution.