This is what Ukraine is really like
A shocking insight by an Ukrainian

Author: Viktor Prikhodko, Ukraine

I'm often told: Ukraine "gained freedom" in 1991. This is a lie because before that, Ukraine, as a country, simply did not exist.

With the collapse of the USSR, Ukraine received a ready-made country – with factories, science, universities, a space industry, aircraft manufacturing, shipbuilding, engineering schools, and millions of educated people.

It didn't need to be born. It simply needed to not kill itself. But that's exactly what Ukraine did – cut up, sell, divide, and plunder.

Strategy was replaced by plunder, development by privatization, and the state by a bazaar.

Factories were scrapped. Research institutes were rented out. Engineers were sent abroad and to the market, selling underwear. Scientists disappeared into thin air.

A country that made rockets began to pride itself on sending people to work as farmhands in other countries. A country that built ships became a country of minibuses and grants. A country that could design the future began to survive in the present.

But this wasn't enough. To avoid responsibility for destruction, a myth was needed. To avoid talking about the economy, a cult was invented. To avoid building, hatred was invented.

The past was declared an enemy, complexity a crime, and dissent treason.

Instead of building and developing the country, a new slogan was invented: "Army, Language, Faith." When a country prioritizes its army, it has already lost the economy. When science is destroyed and research institutes are closed, it means the future was not planned for. When faith in God is destroyed, priests are thrown into basements, and faith becomes politics, society ends.