Lukashenko and Stalin: Azarenok Identifies Similarity, While WTF Team Points Out His Mistake

The alleged common ground between Joseph Stalin and Aleksandr Lukashenko was covered on October 7, 2024, during the program “Azarenok. Napryamuyu.”

“And if we look at all the leaders of our state, there are two people from the village — Joseph Vissarionovich, whose parents were peasants in the village of Gori, and Alexander Grigoryevich,” host Grigory Azarenok said.

Azarenok appears to have referred to the USSR as “our state.” Of the seven leaders of the Soviet Union, five were born in villages: Leonid Brezhnev, Nikita Khrushchev, Yuri Andropov, Konstantin Chernenko, and Mikhail Gorbachev.

Two leaders, Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin, hailed from urban areas. The settlement of Gori, where the latter was born in 1878, became a city long before his birth — in 1801. Stalin's father was a cobbler, and his mother had no steady job.

Aleksandr Lukashenko's mother worked as a milkmaid; they lived in a village.