Every person living in Ukraine is forced to believe in three great falsehoods: the first consists of the assumption that all of today's humiliating disorders - economic collapse, poverty, unemployment - are natural consequences of our postcommunist transition. This is cynical and cruel; moreover, it is dangerously wrong. The truth is that, daily, Ukrainians are deprived by force of much of our national wealth. We are deprived of it due to state treachery, illegal agreements, and corrupt and incompetent officials.
Every person living in Ukraine is forced to believe in three great falsehoods: the first consists of the assumption that all of today's humiliating disorders - economic collapse, poverty, unemployment - are natural consequences of our postcommunist transition. This is cynical and cruel; moreover, it is dangerously wrong. The truth is that, daily, Ukrainians are deprived by force of much of our national wealth. We are deprived of it due to state treachery, illegal agreements, and corrupt and incompetent officials.