Łukašenka: If we don’t protect our statehood, we’ll have to “walk under someone’s whip”

November 25, BPN. If Belarus does not protect its statehood, it will have to “walk under someone’s whip,” Alaksandr Łukašenka has told officials during his tour of the Homiel region.

“They’ll take a whip, and you’ll run ahead. You’ll collapse, you’ll fall behind, as they say. You know what’s going to happen. This happened to us 80 years ago: they tried to show it to us, and thrashed Belarus in such a way that we are still sneezing,” Łukašenka said.

“We don’t want our children to take a gun and go defend their country. I don’t feel like it at all. If any of you feel like it, stand up and say, we’ll give it to you. So instead, let us clench our teeth to work and and produce results,” he added.