An Axe, Or Another Illness Lukashenka Suffers From

• 16.11.2024, 14:58

The absurdity is off the charts.

Analyst Siarhei Chaly spoke about the essence of the absurd statements of dictator Lukashenka.

“The axes that his own propaganda named as “Lukashenka's axes” are a classic story of import substitution,” economist Siarhei Chaly believes.

“Lukashenka's axes” are exactly the same as Finnish ones, only heavier. It's like import substitution of microcircuits: they are exactly the same, only bigger — macrocircuits.”

But the funniest thing is how MTZ presents the fact that they started producing axes: we, they say, actually already make a lot of things under the Belarus Tractors brand, including ice cream, glazed curds, toy tractor models, casual sportswear, shirts, leather bags, caps, thermoses, mugs with the company inscription.

There are also “Tractor Driver's Bags”, which include dried sausage, lard, canned fish, stewed meat, “Zavodskaya” bread, onions and other products. And recently, the plant has also started producing marmalade in the form of small tractors.

The question arises: why produce tractors? And in principle, this can be done with any enterprises that we inherited.

The economist calls Lukashenka's idea of creating agro-industrial associations in the Vitsebsk region just as “successful” (to make 6 large farms out of 150). Now the ruler says that local officials “convinced” him that the idea needs to be polished, and “if we see that it is no good at all, we will disband them and the farms will work on their own, as before.”

“In Gorbachev's time there was a joke about how when chickens died on a farm, they drew circles or triangles for them, but they all died anyway — “and I still had a lot of ideas”. This is roughly the same: we will unite, if it doesn't work, we will separate, self-confidence shines through,” Chaly comments on the dictator's economic experiments.