Lukashenko: ‘I am not ashamed of my past’

In an interview with the Rossiya TV channel Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko said that he has never changed his mind on important issues and historical processes and always kept his word, BelTA has learned.

The head of state noted that anyone who becomes president is influenced by his previous professional activities: "The past does not go anywhere, it does influence you." True, there are cases in history when leaders try to disavow their past, radically change their views. "There were Polish leaders who were either almost part of the special services or who were agents. In Poland and the Czech Republic, we know such ‘great’ figures who disavowed their past. We know such people in our post-Soviet space who, over time, renounced their past. God spared me from this," Aleksandr Lukashenko said.

“I sometimes look back at what I have lived through, what I have done in public, even as an MP. I look back at my past, and I have nothing to be ashamed of. I have never said one thing and then changed my mind to say an absolutely different thing,” the president said. “I always looked at the situation as a historian. I assessed the politics according to certain criteria. I can say that I have nothing to be ashamed of today.” For example, with regard to the Soviet Union, Aleksandr Lukashenko has always considered the decision to break up that country as a wrong move. As an MP he voted against the decision. From the rostrum of the Supreme Council he urged his colleagues not to make hasty steps that could lead to the irreparable damage. “Speaking out, I used to ask them not to hurry. I asked them to wait a day or two,” the head of state recalled the events of that time, noting that he has nothing to blame himself for in this regard.

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