Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko. File photoMINSK, April 29Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said that neighboring Western countries do not allow their citizens to use visa-free entry to Belarus, so that they do not see that Belarusians «live normally.» Visa-free entry to Belarus is allowed for citizens of Lithuania and citizens (non-citizens) of Latvia from April 15 through May 15th. Earlier, the Belarusian border committee explained the decision on temporary visa-free entry by long-term coronavirus restrictions for citizens of neighboring EU countries, which made it impossible to visit relatives in Belarus due to the lack of visas. Also, when making a decision, the approach of Orthodox and Catholic religious holidays was taken into account.Almost 24,500 Ukrainians have arrived in Belarus since the beginning of the special operation «We opened the border for them before Catholic Easter, and Radunitsa in a few days. Let people come from Poland, Lithuania, Latvia to visit their relatives at the graves, as it always was. Allowed without visas So they don’t let their people into Belarus,” Lukashenka said on Friday during a conversation with residents of Chechersk in the Gomel region. The President's words are quoted by the Belta agency. According to Lukashenka, this happens because «people come to us and buy salt.» “They don’t have salt! Great, rich West, but they don’t have salt! And so that people don’t say that Belarusians live normally, they simply don’t let them out. That’s all democracy!” — he stressed. Lukashenka also responded to accusations that there is a dictatorship in Belarus. «Thank God we have a dictatorship. You all criticized me: dictatorship, dictatorship. But there is order under this dictatorship. If there were no dictatorship, we would go naked,» Lukashenko mocked.
Lukashenko said that the West will not be able to bring Moscow and Minsk to their knees
