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Lukashenko says the economic capacity of Belarus rests largely on the industrial base it inherited from the Soviet Union, saying his country benefitted from preserving rather than dismantling it.
“Belarus is first and foremost a machine-building country, we didn’t invent that, Lukashenko didn’t create it, that’s how it was in the Soviet Union,” he said.
“The foundations of the economy were formed back then, in Soviet times. We didn’t destroy anything. We didn’t pretend that we were smarter than those who created it.”
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