“Thank God that we have a dictatorship”: Lukashenko told why Belarusians “live normally” and do not “go naked”
They opened the border before Catholic Easter, let people come from Poland, Lithuania, Latvia to visit their relatives’ graves, as has always been the case. Allowed without visas. So they don’t let their people into Belarus! Why? Because people come to us and buy salt. Great West, rich West - no salt. And so that people don’t say that Belarusians live normally, they don’t let them out. That's what democracy is all about! Well, thank God we have a dictatorship.