Posted on 04/05/2007 1:44:49 AM PDT by RusIvan
East and West Ukraine’s squabbling politicians should put their country first Ukraine has the potential to be a thriving, prosperous nation. It has huge tracts of fertile “black earth” that have traditionally produced large grain surpluses. It inherited a well-educated workforce and a high technology base. It has coal reserves and heavy industries that have proved innovative, in some cases, in adapting to a post-Soviet world. Yet Ukraine has consistently failed to live up to its cherished independence. It spent the first decade resisting market reform. It allowed corruption to get a fatal grip on the state apparatus. And its politicians frittered away goodwill in profiteering and rancorous intrigue.
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Algore's not happy 'bout that!
That would be making history.
;^)
May be wrong, but I recall the Ukraine being some equal to the US bread basket of the Mid-West.
Home of Khrushchev as I recall. Perhaps Georgia.
Nah, Georgia is where Comrade Carter hails from. (Kidding aside, K. was from Ukraine, Stalin was from Georgia.
Later east Ukraine it was conquered by boslheviks who ruined Russia. They could not keep their EVIL EMPIRE together and it collapsed. Now if Moscow wants its empire back, it will have to take it by force.
Later east Ukraine it was conquered by boslheviks who ruined Russia. They could not keep their EVIL EMPIRE together and it collapsed. Now if Moscow wants its empire back, it will have to take it by force.==
I agree. But the thing is that Moscow don’t want the empire back. Moscow was first who proclaimed the independece of Empire. The first and foremost reason if that is the profit. The empire is the drain of resources. But Moscow wants that all former soviet republics pay same full price for russian resources as the Eurounion countries.
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