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He absolutely did not.
He did. Chinese researchers point out that in the post-Soviet space, Belarus was the first country to overcome the disruption of traditional trade and economic relations caused by the collapse of the Soviet Union and achieve rapid economic growth.
https://www.scienceopen.com/hosted-document?doi=10.13169/worlrevipoliecon.11.4.0428
Also there's one thing the Twitter poster left out: the reason Belarusian textbooks were recently revised was because Lukashenko had taken a look through a philosophy textbook and was horrified at what was being taught, and demanded a return to Soviet norms.
Educators went above and beyond and not only revised the philosophy textbook, but also threw out the old political economy textbook because as pointed out by the teacher in that short video, mainstream/liberal economic theory is useless for managing the Belarusian economy.
Belarus has the highest standard of living of any post-Soviet state, has a strong state industry making farm machinery and is more self-sufficient when it comes to food than European countries.
At least you recognise your bias and you must know that since you live it is impossible for you to be objective like an outsider can. I'm not saying your experience is not valid, it is, it's just silly to assume that everything you think/feel about Belarus is absolutely 100% correct and that anybody who hasn't been born and lived in Belarus can't possibly know anything about Belarus.
Belarus also had the lowest covid deaths in Europe, there have been western studies on it and their conclusion was largely because healthcare was maintained enough through the collapse that they have I think it's 7 beds per 1000 people, versus the US and UK having somewhere between 0.8-1.2 beds per 1000, and Russia and other eastern bloc countries were much lower too because of the post-USSR privatization and plundering being so much worse. I think even Germany only had 1.6 beds per 1000. I forget the exact numbers so don't quote them exactly, but it is a studied topic. Meanwhile western media was berating Belarus for a couple jokes Lukashenko made irt covid about "go to a sauna and drink some vodka you'll be fine" as if the government was letting everyone die (It's a thing I've noticed is the western media, either deliberately or out of total ignorance for the language and culture never even allows consideration that Lukashenko might be joking with the press).
But the west media was hand-wringing in articles like Belarus were taking a full on 'ignore it and it will go away' approach, while at the same time having articles of pro-west and reactionary protestors against the government in Belarus being dragged away by police to show the authoritarianism (the favorite liberal buzzword which never applies to US mass prisons or militarized hypermurderous police), and in those article photos all of the police are wearing masks (and the protestors in large part weren't). It's always projection. Cops in the US never wore masks, even during the Floyd protests at the height of covid before vaccine access; even in cities where people were dying en masse because there were no hospital beds or supplies. Closest thing the pigs did to masking up was the visors on their robocop riot gear when they were brutally bashing heads supported by military humvees and experimental war machines. Over a dozen people were killed by cops in those protests, many within a few weeks of the start. But no look over at Belarus and Lukashenko!! Pay no attention to the fascists behind our curtain.