", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Belarus&oldid=1141790380. A List of Current Communist Countries in the World - ThoughtCo [14][15][16][78] The Soviet-controlled Byelorussian People's Council officially took control of the territories, whose populations consisted of a mixture of Poles, Ukrainians, Belarusians and Jews, on 28 October 1939 in Biaystok. [126], The highest point is Dzyarzhynskaya Hara (Dzyarzhynsk Hill) at 345 metres (1,132ft), and the lowest point is on the Neman River at 90m (295ft). [67] After a variety of delays, a disputed election took place on 8 January 1922, and the territory was annexed to Poland. It shares Europe's oldest forest - Bialowieza - with Poland. [85][86], By the late 1980s, political liberalization led to a national revival, with the Belarusian Popular Front becoming a major pro-independence force. The ballet Nightingale by M. Kroshner was composed during the Soviet era and became the first Belarusian ballet showcased at the National Academic Vialiki Ballet Theatre in Minsk. American taxpayers still give money to Communist China for. [89] Stanislau Shushkevich, the chairman of the Supreme Soviet of Belarus, met with Boris Yeltsin of Russia and Leonid Kravchuk of Ukraine on 8 December 1991 in Biaowiea Forest to formally declare the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the formation of the Commonwealth of Independent States.[89]. A panel of US lawmakers tasked with scrutinizing Beijing held a debut hearing Tuesday overshadowed by protests from the public gallery as it focused on the "existential" threat of the ruling Chinese Communist Party.Committee chairman Mike Gallagher gave a sweeping introduction outlining "The Chinese Communist Party's Threat to America" -- the title of the hearing -- aided by a multimedia . Belarus was part of the Soviet Union and became an independent country in 1991, after the USSR collapsed. List of Every Communist Country in the World as of 2021: China. [162] Belarus has trade agreements with several European Union member states (despite other member states' travel ban on Lukashenko and top officials),[163] including neighboring Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland.