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(DIR) Post #AcudyVF0p1h0iWxsnY by kravietz@agora.echelon.pl
2023-12-17T21:13:16.866515Z
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#Ukraine media discussing the case of Ukrainian farming corporation “Kernel” whose market manipulations caused huge harm to European Union companies, especially in #Poland - their operations were one of the causes for the summer’s “grain scandal” and subsequent embargoes.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEzirlPnKRwAnother article from 1 November described a broad number of schemes used for tax evasion by means of export over 1 million of tons of grain through dozens of fictitious companies. Losses for the state budget of Ukraine are estimated at 8 billion USD.https://www.epravda.com.ua/publications/2023/11/1/706098/Losses of Polish state budget and companies are mentioned in the first interview as a side effect of these fraud schemes, but they were the direct reason for Poland’s grain embargos.Please keep that in mind when you read about various European countries introducing various kinds of economic bans against the “country at war”. Ukraine is indeed at war, but not only with Russia - its second largest enemy is very well embedded in its own power and business structures.
(DIR) Post #AcugxdzJ7GkdPwtvVI by elpolacodesplegado@hessen.social
2023-12-17T21:23:37Z
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@kravietz Growing up Polish in West Germany, this was exactly the role Germans attributed to us. Down to the little rhyme "Heut gestohlen, schon in Polen" (Just stolen today, already in Poland). The question remains how theatrical a national response looks like. Maybe now that adults have returned to run Warsaw, the policy will be aimed at long-term effects instead of broad brush blockades. The desired aim should be the integration of Ukraine into the EU. If Orban hasn't destroyed it til then.
(DIR) Post #AcugxegYWTLVa58Sum by kravietz@agora.echelon.pl
2023-12-17T21:47:39.514124Z
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@elpolacodesplegado These rhymes about cars stolen in Germany were partially justified - the most entrepreneurial Poles abroad weren’t usually the most law-abiding ones. I grew up in Polish mountain climbing community and everyone there was engaged petty smuggling of electronics, gold, jewels or even clothes. This contraband only annoyed customs of India or Singapore, but naturally there were plenty of people outside of the climbing community with less scruples who engaged in various forms of fraud or simply theft.The main motive for that petty crime is income gap: an average salary in communist Poland in 1980’s was $20 (twenty) per month. What we are talking however on the Ukrainian border or with the grain fraud are huge companies, owned by billionaires, so I have zer empathy for them, regardless of where they come from.
(DIR) Post #AcuipDYThzCb1tSgZk by elpolacodesplegado@hessen.social
2023-12-17T21:58:22Z
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@kravietz We agree on that. However, slow institutional growth and European integration have made Poland a proper and respected player. You don't hear the legend of the "lazy Pole who stole my job" anymore. Reputation is quite the opposite nowadays. That's what I meant when I hoped that Tusk would take it back from the MaPoGA crowd and bring it to the diplomatic sphere. At least Ukranian media talk about it. I want to believe that their intent to clean house is sincere.
(DIR) Post #Acuj6Mm2gcfUXmz1nc by kravietz@agora.echelon.pl
2023-12-17T22:11:41.680966Z
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@elpolacodesplegado It depends on who you mean as “their” 🤷 Ukraine, just as Poland, is highly divided society. Half is entirely progressive and ready to fight for rule of law, as demonstrated at Euromaidan, but the other half lives in Darwinian world of dog-eat-dog competition where no rules except for tribal loyalty apply. That’s why I wrote that Ukraine is really fighting two enemies at the same time: one is Russia, and the other one is the part of the society who doesn’t really give a shit if they live in EU or in Russia, because they can manage in each of these.