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Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko branded the European Union as a military and political bloc in his speech made at the military parade in celebration of 80th anniversary of the victory in the Great Patriotic War on May 9.

The EU which was established as a political and economic alliance has actually turned into a totalitarian military and political bloc with an undisguised leaning towards revanchism, he decried.

He censured the EU for making Poland and Baltic states a foothold for attack from the eastern line of NATO in a planned way and trying to increase the military expenditure for this year of the 80th anniversary of the victory in the war to over 3 percent of the GDP of its member states.