Belarus, Russia ‘will have to respond’ to deploying US base to Poland - Lukashenka
On November 4, president Lukashenka arrived at the township Balbasava (Orsha district). It has been totally renovated in 2018.
Meeting with residents near the local community centre, the Belarusian leader promised them that the state would help people, but only ‘in the fields where it should help’. Belsat.eu has picked out the most interesting statements by Alyaksandr Lukashenka.
“The state is us. Let us strengthen it. Now everything depends on you. And it is us who should shape our life. No one will not come and help from abroad. On the contrary, in envy of us, they may put sand in the wheels,” Lukashenka said.
Love for ice-cream
“When I was a child, I used to come here from [the village of] Aleksandryia, it is 8-10 kilometres away. When my mother got a salary, sometimes she gave me 5 rubles as I helped to milk the cows. I came here and ate 10-12 ice-creams!”
US base in Poland
“I told the [Polish] Foreign Minister that we were not going to fight against them. There is no need in additional bases. Otherwise, we and the Russians will have to respond. We will have to set up bases in a counter-move.”
Belarus in focus
“Today, they [Europeans] have finally understood how valuable this piece of land in the center of Europe is. Americans who are very far from here have also given recognition to us, not mentioning our big brother [Russia].”
Balbasava is ‘monument to Belarus-Russia friendship’
“For me this village is a symbol of our inseparable friendship with Russians. During the Soviet time a lot of Russians worked here. Different nations lived here and used this airfield. It was one of the strategic military airfields. Let this restored village be a symbol of our unbreakable friendship of Slavic peoples, first of all, Russians and Belarusians.”
War threat
“We are peaceful people, we do not want war. We are not rich, but we do not ask anyone for anything. We will earn our happiness ourselves. If we work, we will do everything ourselves. I have already said that tens and hundreds of years of negotiations are better than one day of war. For this [peaceful and prosperous life] we must be a single whole, see our goals, and live as we see it right.”
October revolution
“We left the October Revolution day a holiday in the national calendar. Of course, the attitude to this holiday is a bit different. The revolution is a distant past now. It has been more than a hundred years. But this is our history. We cannot erase it or rewrite it. Whoever tried to throw a stone in the past by rewriting the history got this stone in the present. We left this day as the holiday on our national calendar. But, of course, time goes by, and we need to fill this holiday with some other meaning.”
