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originally posted by: billyjack
I worked in Ukraine & throughout Russia and the FSU from 2011 to 2015 in oil & gas. The most corrupt government I saw was in Ukraine and yes they were joined at the hip with Russia. The crooks were not able to steal as much from the Russians as they thought they were entitled and began an effort to move towards Europe because they could steal from the the US more easily and get more as has recently been exposed. The Bidens and Burisma are just the tip of the iceberg. Half the people in Ukraine are native Russians. Probably from Stalin killing 15,000,000, but nevertheless they are Russians now. As the Ukrainian government crooks began to move away things go worse and the people suffered. The reason Putin came in is their corruption was so bad that the normal Ukrainian was starving to death and calling home to Moscow to bitch at their family, who in turn put heat on Putin to fix the problem.