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"Mr President, Soviet Communism was the most murderous ideology devised by our species. In empirical terms, it murdered more people than any other political system, and disproportionately, those casualties were suffered by Ukraine.
And this tragedy continues. The name of Ukraine, as I understand it, means ‘frontier’, or ‘edge’, and here it is as an edge between two large blocs, the division between Slavophiles and Westernisers within that country being mirrored by the rival ambitions of its neighbouring powers.
What could we most usefully do to help that country? We could offer to open our markets. Ukrainians are an educated and industrious people, but they enjoy relatively cheap costs and relatively competitive exports. If we simply admitted them fully into a European Customs Union, we would substantially improve their quality of life.
Instead, what we are doing is urging more bureaucracy on them, building capacity, trying to draw them into the cooperative structures of the European Union. They are not asking for that! They do not want our hand-outs. All they want is the opportunity to sell."@en1
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