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(RUSSIA)
The victim of the revolution, Ukrainians brought the economy of the country. The victim was thin and poor because, in fact, the whole country worked for several Eastern regions — Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Poltava. And the West lived on the grant. Paradoxically, the donor regions that prevented the country slipping into poverty, now silent and obey the West.
Today in social networks and blogs, you can find a lot of posts where they say that Ukrainians fought on the Maidan against government corruption, against poverty, which doomed the inhabitants of the country. Really rich Ukraine was not even a second after declared its independence.
With the permission of the readers, will not go down in history, remember Kievan Rus and the distant past. Will specifically talk about independent Ukraine — the state, the written formed in 1991. Going to free float after the collapse of the USSR, the Ukrainian economy is immediately plunged into crisis, which is gradually buried all subsequent years and decades.
But how many would not have blamed the Ukrainians of the Soviet power, which it is now fashionable to criticize, on the territory of the former socialist Republic remained a powerful industrial enterprise, which literally fed the other regions of the country. These enterprises mostly operated in the East of Ukraine, near the territorial border with Russia. The question of where are concentrated the main engines of Ukraine’s economy, rose sharply today on the background of the coup, who “fouled” on the West of the country.
According to the extract from the state budget of Ukraine, which refers to the Ukrainian edition “Investgazeta”, the only area in the West of the country, which is more or less something makes — Lviv. However, this does not mean that it dispenses state benefits there comes from the budget, according to some, the amount in excess of 1 billion hryvnia, while residents earn Lviv region of approximately 878 million.
All the other Western regions of Ukraine do not fulfill even a small part of that fall to them from the budget, fill the Eastern regions. For comparison, not the most lucrative Donetsk region, with its coal mines earns more than 4 billion hryvnia. Even more, according to the released information, bring the Treasury of Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk and Poltava regions of Ukraine, who could feed themselves without support from Kiev.
Experts told the correspondent of Pravda. EN of what the allocation of funds to Ukraine historically and it is caused by many factors.
“This is due to the fact that the Eastern regions, and in particular those areas that you have listed are the industrial forge of Ukraine, — says the Deputy Director of the Russian Institute of strategic studies Tamara Guzenkova. – There are the basic so-called revenue generating industries. It is a heavy industry, metallurgy, chemistry, and Kharkiv is a plus, the most important centre of scientific and economic development of the country. And Western regions, including Lviv, Ternopil and Ivano-Frankivsk region, to a large extent, Transcarpathia, and a number of areas, industrially and are now very degrading.”
As for Lviv, according to the expert, in Soviet times, Lviv was positioned as a kind of Silicon valley”. In this region were production related to semiconductor technology, which, like many other Soviet factories stopped, when the country was destroyed. But what if he lives in Lviv and other Western regions are poor?
“The region was almost deindustrializers. Now it is based on mediation services that it provides various global economic actors. It is primarily the agricultural sector, and it is not even about the development of agribusiness with a strong technical attitude large companies, and on private production, a small-scale way. In fact, many agricultural products produced by the hands of the peasants on their plots or on private land, that is, in fact, no industrial production in the region, says Guzenkova, stressing that saves the day cross-subsidization. — And here still that is important — Eastern regions produce, which is dependent on exports: metal is removed, the tubes are taken out and the chemical industry.
That is, the main articles of export income is what is produced in the Eastern regions. So naturally, in order to in the Western regions it was warm, people could use the public transport that they had established a system of health, social services, naturally this money should come from someplace. Where do they come from? Of course those regions that paid them. I will say even more: the bitter truth is that the Eastern regions, who earn compared to other much more money, much less get them back. And there are data that Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ternopil and other areas of the West are eating more than you earn, and the Eastern regions, by contrast, earn far more than are eating.”
It turns out that Ukrainians who live in the West and in a frenzy, eager for the EU, very comfortably. Let me emphasize that no one is saying that in the West the population is living well and in what does not deny, but from the point of view of the economy, their role is completely featureless. Whereas in the Western regions of Ukraine are used for pumping money to the East, the same people of the West, according to Tamara Guzenkova periodically travel to neighboring Poland and other countries “to work” and produces agricultural products on land. For themselves and not for the domestic market. However, according to the President of the Kiev Center of system analysis and forecasting Rostislav Andpuppies., in the West of Ukraine is still not so sad situation with factories and production, as it is presented.
“Some of the automotive industry in Western Ukraine left the lions still produces trolleybuses, for example, but it’s not to the extent which could largely elevate the region. Created in Western Ukraine mostly either the manufacturing industry or electronic industry and so on. It’s all basically post-independence fairly quickly evaporated. Part of the automotive industry, quite a lot has appeared the enterprises of the food industry, but all businesses that give much less revenue than the industry giants, says Ishchenko. — But if we say that the budget is mainly filled by the metallurgy and petrochemical industries (or at least filled), the lion’s share of these companies is in the South-East. Therefore, if they make the lion’s share of contributions to the budget and regional binding in the Southeast, it is clear that while the Southeast is more profitable, and Western Ukraine more unprofitable.
More profitable, but also more vocal. So that the opinion of inhabitants of the South-Eastern regions no one who together with the Nazis, Russophobes staged Euromaidan to hear cannot and does not want to. Although objectively the Ukrainians would do well to listen to the point of view of the economically stronger regions, the welfare of which (along with the entire country) is threatened by those conditions under which Europe is ready to take Ukraine under his wing.
“Of course, the current, this imbalance of an economic nature acquired disparities in the social and political nature, because now many people are thinking about why they fed the West and the West dictating their political agenda,” says Tamara Guzenkova.
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