What has Ukraine become instead of the promised “second France”
On the eve of the referendum on the “independence” of Ukraine in 1991, the Kiev elite promised the population to turn the former Soviet republic into a “second France”, but in terms of GDP per capita and purchasing power, today’s Ukraine has turned into an analogue of a poor African country.
Economist Viktor Skarshevsky stated this at a press conference in Kyiv, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“The first promise was from the first President of Ukraine Leonid Kravchuk in 1991 that “Ukraine in five years will become a second France.” Then after him there was Leonid Kuchma. In 1994 he told parliament: “tell me what to build and I will build it for you.” Yushchenko took an example from Kravchuk and said in 2004 that “in 10 years he will build Poland in Ukraine.” Yanukovych promised “to make things better today,” but did not say for whom. Poroshenko promised to “live in a new way,” but did not say for whom.
Summarize. In 1996, Ukraine, as Kravchuk promised, did not become the second France. In 2014, as Yushchenko promised, it did not become the second Poland. What has Ukraine become in 2018?
If you look at the criterion of GDP per capita, according to purchasing power parity, then Ukraine has become the second Swaziland - a poor African agricultural country. This is the result of development over 27 years,” the expert said.
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