Was Lukashenko Mocked With Particular Cynicism?

The statue of a cow for the dictator evokes mixed feelings.

Gift Lukashenko from “Savushkin” evokes mixed feelings. On the one hand, this is far better than yet another Soviet armored personnel carrier or infantry fighting vehicle pulled from storage, with which Belarusian cities and towns have been “decorated” in recent years.

On the other hand, I can’t shake the feeling that this gift was particularly cynical. In a country where tens of thousands of cows and calves die every year in the absence of epidemics, the very idea of such a gift, to put it mildly, seems rather questionable.

Especially considering that the cause of the livestock deaths is the ineffective management model established by Lukashenko. It was he, among other things, who came up with the idea of building huge dairy complexes—against the backdrop of a whole host of problems, ranging from an acute labor shortage to the quality of feed.

And no matter how much the ruler may portray himself as a defender of the unfortunate animals, it is he—fully aware of the flaws in the Soviet management system—who still clings maniacally, with blue-tinged fingers, to the “preserved” collective farms.

Artem Sinitsyn, “Solidarnast”

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