Lukashenko: no matter how much Americans and French brag, they have no democracy, but totalitarianism

No matter how much Americans and French may brag, they have no democracy, but totalitarianism – as stated by President of Belarus Aleksandr Lukashenko in an interview with the Mir Interstate TV and Radio Company, BelTA reports

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During the conversation, Aleksandar Lukashenko noted that he regularly watches the MIR TV channel because he is interested in what is happening in the post-Soviet space. In addition, according to the President, the company’s journalists objectively cover events in other countries, doing that with no bias.

"I like it, and this is actually what we lack today. This is what the globe lacks. No matter how Americans, French and others are bragging, they are not just propagandists: it’s more than propaganda, it’s no democracy, it’s pure totalitarianism. Meanwhile, they have presented themselves to us differently,” the Head of State said.

Aleksandr Lukashenko mentioned the situation concerning French National Rally party’s leader Marine Le Pen (she was found guilty of misusing European Union funds) and a lawsuit against the Governor of Moldova’s Autonomous Territorial Unit of Gagauzia, Evghenia Gutul (she was accused of violations in financing the opposition Sor party, which was declared illegal by the Moldovan authorities and liquidated) in that regard. Many believe that both cases are politically motivated.

"It's terrible in any country. It's terrible. There was no democracy there. Little signs of democracy they had were meticulously hidden somewhere, and we – being enchanted by that – wished to copy. Together with Russians, we replicated it. They [Western partners] came to us with some economic proposals and investments, they launched facilities and privatised some property (not here, mostly in Russia). But, upon given a go-ahead, they fled – and thank God they did that. Actually, they did not take anything away with them. We were smart enough not to let anything of what our people and their specialists had accumulated to be lost. It is the basis of our import substitution and competitiveness," the Belarusian leader stressed.