I won't tell you scientific terminology, I won't talk about history now, I won't even operate on maps and tables - you can find all this data yourself if you wish. I will speak in simpler words, as in the usual everyday conversation of friends somewhere on the street, because I consider my readers friends ;) Everything I say is true, if there is a mistake somewhere, it is insignificant and you can check my words if you wish, because everything is very easily searched on the Internet)
Ukraine is the largest country in Europe. Although it is customary to call Ukraine Eastern Europe, the center of Europe is located in Ukraine (there are 4 different centers of Europe in the world, depending on how you count).
Ukraine has extremely fertile soils, so fertile that during the occupation, the Nazis used wagons to transport Ukrainian soil to Germany. I think that is why Ukraine is the feeder of all of Europe and Africa. Ukraine also has an extremely large variety of minerals. Ukraine is one of the world's largest exporters of various metals and minerals. And this is despite the fact that the bowels of Ukraine have not yet been studied and researched at all. Ukraine even has its own gas deposits and helped neighboring countries for free when they had problems with Russia. Ukraine is also home to the largest Nuclear Power Plant in Europe, which was currently occupied by the Russians and was completely replaced. Its explosion will turn half of Europe into Chernobyl. But this indicates that Ukraine produces a huge amount of electricity and transports it to Europe.
In addition, Ukraine has beautiful nature and a simply wonderful climate. We don't have any cataclysms. In summer, we have different weather from cool to hot, autumn and spring are warm seasons, it often rains, and in winter we have frost and snow. Of course, lately there have been some unpleasant changes in the weather :( Also, Ukraine has mountains, there are 2 seas, there are rivers, lakes, there are completely different interesting places - from green meadows and forests to small deserts and beaches. Our air is also quite pleasant.
We make almost everything we have ourselves, and everything we make ourselves is quite cheaper - much cheaper than in Europe. So foreign tourists, seeing much cheaper beer than they have in the country, simply got drunk to an extremely drunken state)) What is interesting, our products do not contain such a large amount of chemicals as the EU or the USA, and unlike them, every product here has a rich, authentic taste and vitamin benefits. Our bread is also much tastier than in the USA :) Each candy has a different and unique taste, and there are simply too many types of candy. My friends who were in the USA said that there all sweets have the same taste, for example :) For us, our native fruits are apples, pears, apricots, peaches. We also grow various berries: cherries, cherries, apricots, currants, blueberries, currants, raspberries, strawberries, grapes, etc. We also have walnuts and hazelnuts. From vegetables, cucumbers, tomatoes, corn, pumpkins, potatoes, carrots, beets, cabbage, etc. are native to us. We also grow wheat, buckwheat, oats and others. Well, this is a separate topic about sunflowers, from which we eat seeds, make halva and oil. We grow watermelons and melons in Kherson. But we import tropical fruits such as tangerines, oranges, bananas, pineapples, coconuts, mangoes, kiwis and others. That is why imported products are more expensive and only rich people can afford them.
Our equipment is also much more expensive than in the EU and the USA. And this applies to everything - from smartphones to cars. Unfortunately, we manufacture very few technologies ourselves, although there are some of quite good quality. But the development of these companies depends on whether there are orders. Unfortunately, for example, Lviv "Laz" and "Electron", which manufactured buses (including electric buses), trolleybuses, trams, which were not inferior in quality to world brands but were much cheaper, had no orders from foreign countries :( That is why our factories or stand or even close.
The mind of Ukrainians should be singled out separately. We have a fairly powerful educational system and children in schools learn the material that is taught in universities in many countries around the world. Almost everyone here has a higher education, and a large number of Ukrainians have several educations or higher scientific degrees. Ukrainians own a huge number of inventions in the world, which you do not even know about and will be simply shocked. And you have no idea how many of the first things in the world or in Europe, which are popular now, first appeared in Ukraine. During the occupation, it was the Ukrainians who were the mind and engine of the USSR. The legendary AN aircraft, T tanks, and Russian nuclear bombs were created by Ukrainians.
The situation is similar with culture and sports. Our culture is at a very high level. That is why Ukrainians are highly moral people and respect other people, regardless of gender, orientation or race. Our art is also very developed. Each of you has definitely heard the legendary Ukrainian melodies of the classics, perhaps not even knowing that it was Ukrainians who created them. Each of you has read Ukrainian books, perhaps without even realizing it. that you read Ukrainians. In addition, even in Hollywood there are many Ukrainians who are known all over the world. You definitely know Ukrainian athletes. Everyone has heard of the Klitschko brothers, Andriy Shevchenko and others. Ukrainian athletes deserve special respect because the state has not created the conditions for training, some train only theoretically without practice, and then take prize places in tournaments. Therefore, the success of Ukrainian athletes is simply an extremely high manifestation of character.
Ukraine could simply become an extremely rich and powerful state and, probably, no country in the world has such great potential as Ukraine. That is why there are certain fears about Ukraine joining the EU, because then the EU will definitely use Ukraine in its own interests. But the economic situation in Ukraine is extremely bad, so we need the EU. The problem of the economic situation is the main reason why, despite such wealth, Ukrainians live so poorly. And the economic problem came from the Soviet problem. In particular, oligarchs and politicians who were their puppets looted the state. Closed factories, because all politicians in the history of Ukraine were indifferent to the well-being of Ukraine. For them, Ukraine was only a business project - just to steal as much as possible while they are in power and live in luxurious estates for the rest of their lives. Nobody was worried about Ukraine as a state, nobody was worried about the Ukrainian people. And we could not change that, because the oligarchs created a situation in which only their representatives went to the elections. No one else could afford to pay such a large amount of money as a contribution to become a candidate, no one else could get on the oligarchs' TV channels, so people simply did not know about them. Moreover, they deliberately sent a pro-Russian candidate who wanted the destruction of Ukraine and a bandit who would benefit from Ukraine not belonging to Russia to the second round. Therefore, Ukrainians never had a choice. Only when the patient broke in - revolutions began: the Orange Revolution, when for the first time in the history of Ukraine the pro-Ukrainian president Victor Yushchenko won, but the pro-Russian Kuchma falsified the elections and handed over power to the pro-Russian Yanukovych and the Revolution of Dignity, when Ukrainians expressed their protest against the refusal to join the EU, the introduction of dictatorial laws in styles of Russia and a protest against the beating of Ukrainians by "Berkut". Unfortunately, the revolution did not bear fruit, and the same people remained in power: Poroshenko, who was the founder of Yanukovych's party and was a minister under Yanukovych, Tatarov from Yanukovych's government, who was an enemy of the Maidan, and many others... I am completely silent about the parliament. There are still people of Yanukovych and Putin's godfather - Medvedchuk :(
I see the improvement of Ukraine in the eradication of the Soviet system of Ukraine. It is necessary to completely eradicate the oligarchy and all the schemes through which money flowed into the pockets of certain people and not to the Ukrainian people. It is necessary to remove the laws that block the coming of the Ukrainian people to power. It is necessary to carry out lustrations to cleanse Ukrainian politics of Russian agents and corrupt officials. It is necessary to reform all state institutions that were not reformed after the Revolution of Dignity. Because where there were reforms - there is no corruption, where there were no reforms - these institutions work with Soviet methods, which are not only ineffective but also contain an extremely high level of corruption. First of all, the judicial system needs to be reformed. If the court and law enforcement agencies, the prosecutor's office will be truly honest and independent and will fairly judge even a representative of the government or the head of the special services and it will be impossible to buy or intimidate them - then everyone will be afraid to break the law. At the same time, it is necessary to create an appropriate system so that Ukrainian citizens can complain about incorrect court decisions and that judges are afraid to make unfair decisions or take bribes. It is necessary to create a huge control over officials and politicians so that everything is transparent. I would also shorten or, better, liquidate the Ukrainian parliament. Instead, you can create a vote of the Ukrainian people through the "Action" application. For example, if the question concerns a certain profession, then only representatives of this profession vote. If it concerns the whole people, then the whole people votes. Well, or make a combined system: parliament + people. Then there would be real democracy.
We also need to attract investments. It already depends more on international partners. So that billionaires and businessmen from all over the world come to Ukraine, create their own projects here, invest in Ukrainian projects. It will bring money to them and to us. And it is very profitable, especially now during the war. The only fear they have is because of the Soviet system, which I criticize. This is another reason why it should be eliminated as soon as possible. Doing business on the territory of Ukraine, taking advantage of the unlimited Ukrainian potential with extremely cheap prices, is very profitable for an entrepreneur and it is profitable for Ukraine, because it is jobs for Ukrainians, it is taxes to the budget of Ukraine. It is for this reason that porn should also be legalized. You have no idea what big funds will go to the budget of Ukraine - according to experts' calculations, it is billions of dollars. Now, officials and the police are making money from corrupt schemes to ban porn, simply demanding bribes and blackmailing them with 7 years in prison for any erotic photo on the Internet. That's why they block consideration of this issue :(
Each of you can also help Ukraine. And I'm not even talking about the war, because you all know how much your support for the military, donations and pressure on the politicians of your countries to support Ukraine weighs. I am talking about the time of peace, the time that will come after our victory. Every trip to Ukraine will be beneficial for Ukraine, because you will leave money in the Ukrainian economy - this is an overnight stay in a hotel or a rented apartment (you can rent for 1 or several days), this is also the purchase of products, souvenirs, this is payment for transport and any other services And it will be profitable for you, because ours is cheaper than yours. And it will be beneficial for us, because in addition to the fact that you will support the business of Ukrainians, whose services you will use, you will also leave foreign currency in Ukraine, which Ukraine needs very much. In part, you can do this even now - by buying Ukrainian goods from Ukraine via the Internet (Nova Poshta has now made delivery from Ukraine especially easy, although there are laws that prohibit the forwarding of some things, including food, including candies :() or by subscribing to my Patreon channel (with this you will support me personally and my brother at the front) ;)
https://www.patreon.com/ukrainianstories
P.S. I have not yet mentioned the incredibly beautiful culture, traditions, architecture, history that dates back to the times of kings and even Amazons and Attila that were in Ukraine, I have not mentioned the incredibly high level of digitization and high technologies that we have at a higher level than many highly developed countries jerks of the world, despite all the problems. So come and see for yourself ;) You can come even during the war - tourists come to us (first to Poland, and from Poland by train to Lviv, and then wherever you want, except east, because it's dangerous there). Ukraine is a large country and, being in the west, you will have time to receive a message about the launch of missiles in advance and will be able to monitor their flight via messenger. It is in the east that explosions are heard before the notification :( By the way, keep in mind that it takes half a day to travel from Lviv to Kyiv, and Kyiv is located approximately in the center of Ukraine :) So, when after the victory you go to a party in Crimea - count, that only in Ukraine you will travel for a day :) But the time zone is the same throughout Ukraine ;) For example, I traveled to a neighboring city by train for 4 hours, and when I went to Kyiv, I deliberately took a ticket for 10-11 pm, went to sleep on the train and I woke up in Kyiv in the morning - it was easier than being bored for many hours during the day ;) In peacetime, we had airplanes, but I never used them. Although after the victory, you will probably be able to fly directly to Lviv, Kyiv, Donetsk, and Crimea.
