Alyaksandr Lukashenka’s views of private business are notorious, exemplified in this remark: “I don’t understand how there can be a non-governmental sector of the economy? What do you mean non-governmental? Is it in another state or what? No, my dears, the state is obliged to manage you as well.”
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People walk past a monument to the founder of the Soviet Union Vladimir Lenin in Minsk on the day of the 150th anniversary of Lenin's birth on April 22, 2020, amid the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic.
