A resident of Belarus drew attention to a significant increase in prices in stores. She shared this with the opposition service Karta 97 shared this by comparing the costs of products in her country and in Poland.
During a 20-day stay in Poland, she visited her family, but she also did shopping. After returning to Belarus, she headed to the local store.
“I calculated that for only three weeks the price of milk increased by 4 percent today for a liter of milk I pay 3 rubles (about 3.6 PLN). It's exactly the same as in Poland. However, the salaries in our countries are incomparable” – explains the card 97 woman.
The Belarusian noticed more adverse changes. “A similar situation is with potatoes, which I bought in Poland around PLN 2-2.5. And with us at the market potatoes, as they cost 3 rubles per kilo (about PLN 3.6), they still cost” – he adds.
According to GUS data, the average gross salary in Poland is over 8.8 thousand. PLN, and in Belarus – just over 2.4 thousand rubles (over PLN 2.9 thousand).
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However, Belarusian propaganda argues that in Poland it is much worse than in a neighboring country. Aleksander Łukaszenko has repeatedly tried to convince that Poland is a country that, unlike Belarus, is developing very slowly, and Poles regularly suffer from hunger.
“Praise God that we have a dictatorship! At least there is order. People go to us and buy salt. They don't have salt! The Big West, a rich West, and there is no salt” – said Łukaszenko in April 2022.
At the same time, he also told, among others About Poles and Lithuanians who are camping at the border to get to Belarus, where they will be able to buy buckwheat.
“They were so wealthy, they lived in such a happy world. There was nothing with us, everything with them. And where are they now? They stand at the border and ask us to let them into Belarus, so that they can at least buy buckwheat. Never mind buckwheat. Salt does not.
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The nominal GDP of Belarus in 2025 is forecasted at approx. 73.5 billion dollars. That's about 0.07 percent GDP of the world economy, which is placed by Belarus outside the first fifty most developed countries in the world.
