It's either cold, it's green, it's eyes or it's rotten. Most of these choices have been offered by Belarusian shops for respective weeks. – They don't give specified pigs – consumers resent the online videos. The issue is highly sensitive, due to the fact that it is about potatoes, or even the symbol of Belarus. Its inhabitants were called "bulbashs", or potatoes, even during the russian Union and for decades maliciously called agroführer Lukashenka built the image of Belarus as a modest but economical country. possibly not milk and honey, but definitely potatoes. Now the myth's gone.
Exports from Russia
According to the authoritative version, he had a bad harvest and – which the authorities reluctantly granted – exports, mainly to Russia. However, according to independent experts, the Belarusian power of cartoflan has been a story for a long time. Yes, during russian times potatoes were collected there by 13 million tonnes per year, but in 2023, for example, 4 million potatoes were collected there, and in 2024, by just over 3 million... The problem is besides the retention of crops – due to the deficiency of modern technologies, a large part of them rot in warehouses.
The centre-controlled economy reacted to the disgraceful crisis in the only known way: exports were ordered to be halted and the prices of costly imported species "to regulate". Lukashenko began to personally track down speculators and saboteurs, and the countrymen convinced the potatoes to eat less. – One erstwhile a week, maximum 2 – he besides recommended that everyone holding a game of Belarus should put potatoes on it. – At least 2 furrows – he explained the technicality.
Farmed cattle
As a substance of fact, farms across the country are struggling unsuccessfully with another plague. Breeding cattle decimate the plague: nearly 148,000 pieces fell last year and another 52,000 in the 4 months present. - Mortality has reached its historical maximum! – Lukashenko thundered at 1 of the last conferences, scolding officials that “a cattle should stand in the palace.”
And this anger truly is no wonder... The classics of the golden thoughts of the Minsk dictator, who had already complained years ago that "as he grabbed his eggs, the meat was gone," included his celebrated tirade, in which he taught his fellow countrymen not to eat potatoes with meat for the night—because it was unhealthy.
