Lukashenko: when looking back at the past, I am not ashamed
In an interview with Rossiya TV channel, President of Belarus Aleksandr Lukashenko stressed that he never changed his view with regard to important issues and historical processes and always kept his word, BelTA reports
The Head of State noted that anyone who becomes President is influenced by his previous professional activity, “It is impossible to get away from the past, it has its influence.” However, there are cases in history when leaders try to disown their past, radically change their views. "There were Polish leaders who had worked almost in the special services or had been agents. We know such ‘great’ figures in Poland and the Czech Republic, they have refused [their past]. We also know people in our post-Soviet space who, over time, abandoned their past. The Lord has been protecting me from this," Aleksandr Lukashenko said.
"Sometimes I look back at my life, at what I have done publicly, even as a deputy, and I am not ashamed. It never happened that I said one thing in the past and say something different at present," the President said. “This is because – as a historian – I understood that and evaluated the whole policy properly, according to certain criteria. As a result, I am clean now.”
For example, as for the Soviet Union, Aleksandr Lukashenko has always been convinced that the decision to break up that country was wrong. He voted against such decision while still a parliamentarian, and from the rostrum of the Supreme Council urged his colleagues not to take hasty steps that could lead to the irreparable result. “When addressing them, I used to say: ‘What are you doing?’ With view on the developing situation, I asked them: ‘Do not hurry. Let's wait a day or two’,” the Head of State recalled the events of that time, noting that there’s nothing to reproach him with in this regard.
