The only thing I know about Lukashenko is whatever was in John Oliver’s piece on him; so absolutely nothing. If y’all can help me out on that I’d be grateful.

Anyway, just saw this on twitter and thought it was very sus.

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      I would love to visit Belarus one day when it isn’t being threatened. Russia too (I plan on taking Russian when I do my masters). I would visit all the Soviet Union countries but most seemed to have been occupied by fascists.

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      Isn’t the economy almost exactly like it was in the Soviet Union, just the people don’t own the means of production?

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        IIRC definitely has “liberalized” significantly less than the ones NATO has on a leash, which of course is the economic cardinal sin to the West.

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        It’s capitalist but with a strong presence of the state which is not afraid (read: not controlled by international financiere) to regulate things away from neoliberalism.

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      Isn’t the economy almost exactly like it was in the Soviet Union, just the people don’t own the means of production?

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        I can’t wait to visit Belarus, I was in Russia a couple of times and while there is still a lot of Soviet aesthetics and of course Lenin Mausoleum, there is also a lot of conservative pushing from the government to remove many things related to communism and to put tsarist imagery everywhere. Meanwhile there is Lenin in front of government building in Minks and Soviet flag every now and then.

        -TLDR virgin Putin and Chad Lukashenko