Lukashenko Lied About Potatoes

• 31.05.2025, 14:30

The desire to make money turns off the authorities' common sense.

On 26 May, the Belarusian government decided to make a goodwill gesture in response to the sanctions imposed earlier by the European Union on the export of food and nitrogen fertilizers from Belarus. It lifted its own embargo on imports of some goods from unfriendly countries to Belarus. According to the official commentary to this decision: "Belarus once again demonstrates openness, peacefulness, the principle of good neighborliness," writes the site "Belarusians and the market".

A surprising and absolutely coincidental coincidence, the embargo has been lifted on imports of potatoes, cabbage, apples and onions to Belarus. That is, it just so coincidentally happened that the government made this gesture of goodwill with regard to those products, with which Belarus is currently experiencing temporary difficulties.

There are no temporary difficulties with apples, but this is only if you look at apples with the naked eye. Because in fact, the situation with Belarusian apples is even worse than with Belarusian potatoes. And it's not going to get better.

"This year will probably not be very productive for apples," said Lukashenko at a meeting with the chairman of Brest voblast executive committee.

But temporary difficulties with apples are not noticeable to the naked eye, because the Belarusian government has already made a goodwill gesture to apples, allowing to import apples from Poland into the country. In April, Poland supplied six times more apples to Belarus than in March.

But when the authorities made a goodwill gesture in the direction of Polish apples, they did not advertise it so widely. But now they have decided that if they are going to disgrace themselves, they should disgrace themselves to the end. Because when you try to pass off this absolutely forced decision to allow European fruits and vegetables on the market as a gesture of good will, it looks ridiculous and ridiculous. The whole situation with the great potato deficit in Belarus is ridiculous.

So ridiculous that the topic of the great potato deficit in Belarus has reached a high interstate level. At the meeting on May 27, Putin joked on the topic of the Belarusian potato deficit. Belarusian officials are unpleasant to listen to such jokes.

You create your own NASA and tell everyone about your spaceships, atomic and other geopolitical greatness, and then you run out of potatoes. At the same meeting with the chairman of Brest voblast executive committee, Alexander Lukashenko said that the potato issue is too serious to joke about. And that it's necessary to prove that Belarus has no problems with potatoes.

"We know how to grow potatoes. We need to grow enough potatoes for us and Russia. Prices will be decent, neither we, nor they will be able to improve the situation in a year," said Lukashenko.

That is, we'll have to suffer with potatoes not for a month, as Lukashenko promised earlier, but a little more. Because neither we nor Russia will be able to improve the situation with potatoes in a year. However, Belarus is still going to sell its potatoes, planted this year, to Russia. Although it was the sale of potatoes to Russia in large quantities last year that was one of the reasons for our current deficit.

But you can earn a little money by selling potatoes to Russia. And when there is a prospect of making a little money, the Belarusian authorities turn off not only all fuses, but also common sense.