at the meeting, more than emotional khrushchev lobbied ukraine belarus kirill mazurov put forward his arguments as a result, the republic received the plant because its territory met the criteria proximity to the borders of western europe where it was planned to export oil products, a developed railway infrastructure, but the arguments of the belarusians turned out to be more convincing in the main, the economy of the bssr was developing rapidly, not at a pace, a during the years of the first post-war five-year plan, groundwork for high-tech production was created. and the fact that this was so confirmed, adopted by the party the leadership of the ussr in the early fifties decided to build in belarus a number of large enterprises of general mechanical engineering, machine tool building, radio electronics, optics and instrument making. this was a kind of recognition of the great work that was done by the republic to restore the national economy of the heroism of its inhabitants, who for short. kiy, the term was able to turn belarus into an industrialized region with great economic pote