A Poisoned Independence. Yurasumy
Publication date: 13 October 2016, 18:36
Give the Kiev regime from counterfeit vodka?
September 21 Ukraine, a wave of poisoning with counterfeit vodka. As of today Rospotrebsoyuz reported 53 dead lovers cheap “green dragon”. Dozens of people were on hospital beds. Among the hospitalized cases, not only severe intoxication, but also blinding. The head of the service Volodymyr Lapa has not excluded that the number of victims will grow. The Prosecutor’s office and the national police have launched an investigation. In the framework of criminal proceedings detained about ten people. According to police, only in Kharkiv and Donetsk regions to sell can be about three tonnes of counterfeit products. Police urge citizens to refrain from eating any suspicious vodka, which is sold under the counter or in the informal points.
So, as always, Ukraine is not fighting the cause of the phenomenon and its consequences. Why did it happen? Why the country is at once lost two platoons of the population? Let’s deal.
How it all began
Counterfeit alcohol – the coeval of independence of Ukraine. His birth is directly connected with chaos, which began in the 90s. the point was simple: under various machinations of the factories received the so-called “tolling alcohol” and without any deductions and taxes produced products. Financed, marketed and “protected” in this process the criminals. However, by 1996, President Kuchma put this topic under “state control”. It was a bribe, then the law enforcement system of Ukraine for loyalty to the President. Everything was organized systematically. The immediate supervisor of the process has always been one of the first Vice-premiers. He was responsible for what, who, where, when and how “the left” of vodka will produce and how much of this “entrepreneurs” to bring money into the common Fund.
And for the “sales” were trusted firms in the field. The law enforcement system fronting as the firms themselves, and the absence of problems in selling in the stores. To produce “product” were allowed a strictly limited list of companies (not more than five). And for the implementation of the financial balance and prevent unnecessary conflict is clearly observed the location. For example, “Donetsk” vodka could not be sold Exactly, but “Zhytomyr” in Nikolaev.
Thus, all involved vertical had a steady income. It was about huge amounts. The shadow of alcohol in the total volume of the market ranged from 30 to 40%. The money is about $ 2 billion. annually. The money solved any problems. Changed presidents and Prime Ministers, but the scheme has lived and successfully worked.
“Pokraschennya” from the post-Maidan authorities
Everything changed with the victory of the Maidan. According to the “quota principle” control of the industry passed to the “Chernivtsi” Yatsenyuk. By the way, if someone does not know, these threads always divide the first and with the greatest excitement. However, they were forced to share with people “the first”, not forgetting the law enforcement officers “on the ground”.
Incidentally, despite the frequent disagreements between the Prime Minister and the President, this part of the coalition agreement worked like clockwork, and the country consumed is actually a natural product, but for less money. And while the Film is on the TV telling about the fight against counterfeiting and gave angry orders with a deadline of yesterday, the money he was dropping on a regular basis.
However, the decline in purchasing power, sharply manifested in the fall of 2014, made Senya and To reduce the cost of production by replacing “tolling” of alcohol in a Frank and life-threatening “surrogate alcohol”, and twice to raise the excise tax and to increase the minimum retail price of half-liter bottle from 30 to nearly 55 UAH. I really wanted the man to earn your first billion soon. It was then that the country swept the first wave of mass poisoning, but the subject was told to hush up and not to advertise. It was not until the spring of 2016.
April 10, Arseniy Yatsenyuk resigned. The new government, and therefore the new arrangement. Now the control over this issue has become a quota. Almost 50% took people Groisman, the rest distributed among the people of Yatsenyuk and Avakov security forces (the party, they have one, and the pockets are different). Only here the sharp fall in the purchasing power of the population is not allowed to get the same income. More and more people went to the grandmothers for moonshine.
And then was made standard solution: reduce the cost of products by eliminating from the bottle and move on sale “left” vodka in 10 – and 15-liter PET bottles. To expedite “trusted” companies proposed to establish the production right on the spot, thereby reducing the cost of delivery. The effect is stunning. The price of half a litre of such products was UAH 12-13. Glass half pint came out to 18 UAH. the minimum wholesale price from the state – 36 UAH. Rise 300%.
The “product” to the buyer or brought directly to the trunk of the car, or sent by mail. Primary consumers – small razlivayki at bus stops, eating, cafe, shops in regional centers and villages. They “joyfully” embraced the new product. Thanks postmaydannoy “reforms,” the trade of alcohol, they fell two and a half years more than 40%, and to survive somehow necessary. And on one salary of the tax collector not disperse. In General, a hunted population of Ukraine power all together, the extreme you can find, and blame anymore. Well, not for themselves put behind bars?
Violation of all norms of production and a Frank desire to make money and more after six months and gave the result. In fact, no matter where and when it would happen. The whole scheme was built so that the mass poisoning was only a matter of time. And therefore, when in September 2016 the scandal broke out, people “in the know” are not surprised.
How to solve the problem? Will the punishment Kharkiv scapegoat? What do you think? My opinion — no. While criminal scheme, taken over by the new regime from the “poperechniki” will work, the risk of recurrence of the situation remains. Moreover, the repetition of the tragedy inevitable.
Instead of an epilogue
“Kropiwnicki recorded illegal transportation of methyl alcohol. Militiamen withdrew from circulation 20.4 tons of methanol”.
