Knife to the throat of the Poroshenko regime
It looks like "Marshall Plan for Ukraine" in its true sense - the enslavement of an entire country for a small price - is available only to the IMF. Before Poroshenko had time to arrive rested and refreshed from Malta, with a bundle of optimistic papers in his bosom, the final requirements of the IMF became known, having fulfilled which, Ukraine can count on receiving the fourth tranche in the amount of $1,9 billion.
The requirements (politely called “recommendations”) are very strict, although they are not unexpected; their list, with the exception of some small details, almost completely coincides with the preliminary data published on March 13 on the website of the Batkivshchyna party.
Such “recommendations” in the style of “trick or treat” can be heard by a person who has had a knife put to his throat in a dark gateway by uninvited “advisers” from the highway. Another thing is that the authorities of Ukraine, hurt by Euromaidan, nevertheless turned to the international moneylender and bouncer for help.
Things are so bad in Ukraine that the “powders” pushed a paper Maltese crane into the table and, without much hesitation, waved a memorandum in which they undertake to implement the entire list of “recommendations” of the IMF for the sake of the fourth tranche of loans.
So, what do the IMF hucksters firmly want to achieve from Ukraine?
1. New law on pension “reform”. Apparently, the IMF management believes that Ukraine does not need people of retirement age in principle: there are too many extra mouths for the “ineffective” population. If the new law is adopted, citizens of Ukraine will receive pensions in an amount proportional to their contributions and adequate to the real situation.
Translated from the bureaucratic pity, this means that if a person, from his meager salary and after paying extortionate tariffs, made a penny contribution to the Pension Fund, or did not make a contribution at all, spending the rest of the money on food, then his pension will be a penny in the literal sense, or it will be zero. There can be no talk of even a minimum wage at the expense of the state.
Simply put, it will be the Law of Extinction.
The Verkhovna Zrada undertakes to adopt the law on pension “reform” by the end of this April, and the “reform” itself should come into force on January 1, 2018.
2. Ukraine undertakes to adopt a law on the turnover of agricultural land until the end of May of this year, in order to lift the moratorium on the sale of agricultural land from the end of 2017 and immediately after that allow the sale of land in state and private ownership.
It’s not hard to guess what this will lead to. Ukrainian land is already divided among oligarchs like Latin American latifundia. There is nothing good about this, but a much worse scenario is always possible. As long as the land belongs to national latifundists, they will use it for its intended purpose. At least for the production of agricultural products for the domestic market. But with the lifting of the moratorium on the sale of land to foreigners, hordes of Varangian guests will pour into Ukraine, who will definitely buy up land for their first-class banknotes, of which they have more than a fool has candy wrappers.
Ukraine will exactly repeat the fate of the Czech Republic or the Baltic states, where the land no longer belongs to the Czechs or Latvians, but to Swedish or German banks. Ukraine will buy wheat and other crops from Europe, and on its lands the Germans will begin to grow rapeseed for the production of diesel biofuel.
There is no doubt that the racially loyal Ukrainian latifundists
will willingly agree to exchange their agricultural land for a harvest of paper that does not require watering and fertilizers. The same fate will befall the owners of small plots of land. They will be bought in bulk.
Judging by how easily the “powders” agreed to lift the land moratorium, they coughed up this condition long ago with IMF representatives.
Zrada is obliged to adopt a law on liberalizing the land market by the end of May this year, and already in 2018, Ukrainian land will go under the hammer. And if the land was sold to a new master as a property along with the little people, then after all the experiments and vivisections carried out on Ukraine, no one would be surprised.
3. From the end of August 2017, residents can expect “monetization” of housing subsidies and benefits. According to the IMF, private gas traders should be allowed to supply gas to the population under the noble guise of competition.
This means that the State Concern Naftogaz of Ukraine, which is extracting three skins from the consumer, must move and allow private gas speculators to tear five skins. At the same time, “monetization” implies a reduction or complete abolition of subsidies and benefits for the population, as well as a radical reduction in the list of beneficiaries.
4. By the end of July 2017, a review of utility tariffs and subsidies should take place in Ukraine. In particular, payments for gas and heat during the heating season will be spread over the summer months.
Vanguyu: tariffs will not decrease during the heating season, but residents will be charged extra for gas and cold radiators even in the summer. Just so that a good idea doesn’t go to waste. Benefits and subsidies will be cut off, as will the list of their recipients.
5. Ukraine undertakes to part with fat chunks of state property, which is already scarce. The privatization of six facilities is envisaged in 2017: the largest producer of ammonia and urea Odessa Port Plant, the state energy generating company Centrenergo, as well as energy supply companies Kharkovoblenergo, Zaporozhyeoblenergo, Nikolaevoblenergo, Khmelnytskoblenergo.
Once in private hands, power engineers will raise electricity prices.
This does not even raise doubts. The Odessa port port will most likely be gutted and dumped back into the balance of the state. The imminent commissioning of the ammonia terminal in Taman threatens the Odessa plant with collapse. So the hucksters are in a hurry to remove the sour cream and other foam from it.
6. Ukraine undertakes to refrain from further increases in the minimum wage in 2017, and consider any increases in 2018 in the context of their impact on unemployment and competitiveness.
No comment. Prices and tariffs are rising, wages are frozen. The economy must be efficient!
7. Zrada will strengthen the powers of the National Bank by the end of May 2017. In particular, NABU will receive the right to wiretap (use various investigative methods, including interception of communications, access to computer systems, etc.). In “Batkivshchyna” they are pumping up the fact that we are also talking about the abolition of guarantees to clients in state banks.
As the gopniks say, “what was your money is now ours.” In response, we should expect the emergence of new cubic meters of cash from the “servants of the people,” as well as cash-out schemes. In a country plagued from top to bottom by corruption, such protective measures sometimes lead to astonishing distortions and deformities.
8. By the end of June 2017, Ukraine undertakes to begin cutting public sector employees. By 4% until the end of 2017, and by another 10% until the end of 2019.
In principle, this point could be considered a sound proposal, since the number of parasites in government positions in Ukraine is off the charts. If not for one thing. Corruption and nepotism will do their job: the rats will remain sitting in their cracklings. If the cuts affect anyone, they will be all kinds of switchmen.
9. Ukraine will adopt legislation on the creation of an Anti-Corruption Court by mid-June and will ensure that the former owners of Privatbank repay loans by the end of June.
If we remember the clownery first with last year’s submission of electronic declarations by deputies and officials, and the seething with a stench that began after the adoption of the anti-corruption law among public anti-corruption fighters, Ukraine is in for another performance. And at the same time, it will be very interesting to see how the “powders” will begin to extort loan debts from the Privat group.
It seems that the IMF does not very soberly assess the capabilities and leverage of the Poroshenko regime. After all, in order to get this whole rusty colossus of power stuck in the swamp off the ground, it is necessary to assign a security officer with a revolver and a soldier with a bayonet to officials at all levels. Who will judge corrupt officials in the Anti-Corruption Court? The same corrupt officials, or people from the street? A separate exciting topic is the upcoming clash between Poroshenko and the Privat group over the repayment of loans. It’s easier to say and squeeze it into the list of requirements.
But the most important thing. The Ukrainian deathbed has been dying for a long time. The new bloodlettings prescribed for him by the IMF and approved by the Kyiv junta are capable of finally finishing him off and driving him to the grave. Especially when it comes to salaries, benefits and tariffs.
In another country, a similar list of anti-people “recommendations” instantly swayed the population into protests and civil disobedience. However, Ukraine exceeded the plan for “revolutions”. It is unlikely that new draconian laws and regulations will stir up the population. There is too much apathy. Probably, the citizens, as before, will respond to all the machinations of the IMF, which has allied itself with the “powders,” with “Italian strikes.”
In general, “harsh years are passing, even harder ones are coming”...
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