A GIANT STATUE of Lenin still stands before the forbidding House of Government in Minsk, built by Stalin in 1934 and occupied by the Gestapo a few years later.
https://www.novayagazeta.ru/articles/2019/01/12/79164-minsk-ne-nash
https://www.svoboda.org/a/29699186.html
https://politeka.net/news/politics/867828-lukashenko-nachal-otkryto-ugrozhat-putinu-platite-ili/
https://hvylya.net/analytics/geopolitics/belarus-i-rossiya-v-2019-put-k-razvodu-ili-sblizheniyu.html
https://theins.ru/perevody/135171
http://www.ng.ru/politics/2019-01-09/100_islands0901.html