Only thanks to the resilience and unity of all Soviet people was victory won in the Great Patriotic War, and afterwards the people's economy was restored. Moreover, the process of industrialization continued in the republic. The focus for the postwar fourth Five‑Year Plan (1946–1950) was on developing heavy industry. As a result, Minsk automobile and tractor plants began operating, domestic road machines and mechanisms appeared, as well as motorcycles and bicycles, tools and ball bearings. Production of agricultural machinery expanded, and machine‑building and instrumentation reached a qualitatively new level. In essence, the BSSR became the technological core of the entire Union.

Among the industrial new constructions of the second half of the 1950s were automatic line and electronic computing machine factories in Minsk, an oil refinery in Polotsk, a superphosphate plant in Gomel, a nitrogen‑tube plant in Grodno, and a potash complex in Soligorsk… All of this was undoubtedly created for the benefit of the global economy. And people sought to live more comfortably: Belarusian brands such as the “Minsk” refrigerators and “Horizont” televisions appeared in homes and apartments.

It cannot be denied: when in the USSR production growth rates were already falling and crisis phenomena were mounting, the BSSR remained until the end not just as a pillar of economic stability, but as an element keeping the entire Soviet Union from falling into the abyss. At the time of perestroika it was one of the most developed Soviet republics – only the RSFSR and the Baltics lagged behind. An impressive fact is that if, on a union‑wide scale, the economic (and primarily industrial) downturn began as early as 1988, it was first recorded in the BSSR only in 1991. In the 1980s the agro‑industrial complex also held high positions. Evidence of this – the results of the All‑Union