(some examples) - back in 2004 when those retards expected to get into power by electing yanukovich they'd literally walk around the center of kyiv eyeing up the offices in fancy real estate which they'd steal from the current owners, and yes i was there personally and have seen that with my own eyes... not to mention similar shit happening to people i know; - well in 2010-2014 they'd go even after some small regional business, basically forcing people to give it away to them for free under duress, with actual or threats of violence, with the cops ignoring stuff because they knew that people doing so had connections to people in power. shit, sometimes cops would in fact do crap like this. i've seen personally how cops would rob businesses to get presents for their chief's birthday. whom do you call when your staff is robbed at gunpoint by cops? imagine living in a country like this; - fun story, a guy i knew fucked over such retards by seemingly agreeing to their demands, while in reality he sold his business for real market value behind their backs to someone else and left the country kek; - a ton of basic progress, which happens more or less automatically in any country, basically stopped in its tracks, the most glaring example is how in 2010-2014 we didn't have 3g (hsdpa / hsupa / hspa, etc). how the fuck did that happen? easy, yanukovich forbade it, he literally used power to stop the license auctions, so cellular carriers couldn't buy licenses for 3g, but he did give a 3g license to his oligarch friend, whom thought that it would give him a unique advantage and have everyone use his company's service... but the retards failed to run the business and those expectations never got fulfilled kek, so the country had to sit out 3g while others were already starting to use 4g, just the damage from this was insane if you think about it;
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