Europe «raises a monster in Ukraine», Lukashenko said

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko. File photoMINSK, July 2President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko said that the new Nazism in the West has risen to its full height and is also manifested in the geopolitical appetites of neighboring EU countries, which are eagerly looking at the border Belarusian and Ukrainian territories. «We must face the truth: the new Nazism is no longer just raises his head, he stood up to his full height. We see him in the geopolitical appetites of our Western neighbors, who eagerly glance at the border Belarusian and Ukrainian territories. And they do not even hesitate to speak openly about a possible annexation,» Lukashenko said on Saturday in Minsk at a solemn meeting on the eve of the Independence Day of Belarus. According to him, the Baltic countries behave like fanatics: they are so obsessed with the desire to harm the Belarusian economy that they are ready to sacrifice their own people. «They have long divided their inhabitants into citizens and non-citizens, depriving, accordingly, of civil rights. What is this, if not segregation, not the rise of one group of the population over another along ethnic lines? What is this, if not a manifestation of racism and Nazism?», — Lukashenka said. He noted that in the past Western Europe raised a monster called Nazi Germany, and now «the monster is being raised in Ukraine, they are trying to create the image of the enemy, including from Belarusians.»Lukashenko promised to remind Europe of the truth about the Great Patriotic WarThe president said that the West does not like the independence of Belarus. «The independence of Belarus is an opportunity for our friends to come to a country without red tape, where there are no empty shelves in stores, as in the USA, Great Britain, Germany, and there are no food stamps for the poor, as in France, where they do not have to give up heating in winter, as residents London or Riga, where you don’t have to save on water, like in Berlin, and on fuel, like throughout the European Union. Who, in the West, likes this independence of ours?” Lukashenko continued. In the world, in spite of everything, Belarus continues to build its state «as our ancestors did — with care for people, respect for other peoples, readiness to defend truth and justice.» «And we know that we do not call the traditions, principles, opinions imposed on us from outside as our policy, we are independent… As long as we are proud of our history, our people, our country, we are free,» Lukashenka stated.