Lukashenko's dictatorship hits rock bottom - Break the Fake - TVP WORLD

Belarus without potatoes? Unthinkable. Yet in 2025, the country famous for its "second bread" is facing its first-ever potato shortage. What happened? Price controls, bad policy, and Lukashenko's Soviet-style economics. Farmers stopped growing potatoes because it wasn't profitable, the best potatoes were shipped off to Russia, and Belarusians were left with empty shelves. Now the dictator is blaming retailers while importing potatoes from Poland and the EU – the very countries he calls "enemies." In a new episode of Break the Fake, Diana Skaya discusses why Belarus lost its potatoes for the first time in history.