30 years of Lukashenko: Most memorable quotes from Belarus’s anti-globalist president

30 years of Lukashenko: Most memorable quotes from Belarus’s anti-globalist president

On July 10, 1994, Alexander Lukashenko won Belarus’s presidential runoff election in a landslide. Saving his country’s Soviet-era industry and agriculture, crushing gangs and oligarchs, rejecting Western interference in Belarus’s affairs and forging a union state with Russia, Lukashenko went on to win reelection five times, surviving multiple attempts by the West to oust him.

Over 30 years, Lukashenko earned a reputation as a politician who doesn’t mince words.

◻️ “It wasn’t the European Union that elected me…I don’t care what they think about me today in Britain, the US or the EU. Because the whole world has seen your face,” he told a BBC journalist questioning his legitimacy in 2021.

◻️ He has also recognized the pressures associated with the transition to a multipolar world, saying in a 2022 address that the faltering American “world policeman” is turning into a “global terrorist.”

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Source: Sputnik International
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