Ukrainian slaves will be happy with $300 a month, - MP Poroshenko - to Americans
Kiev
The impoverishment of Ukrainian citizens due to the fall of the national currency is a real gift for Western companies, which, through Ukrainians, can receive cheap labor.
This was stated in an interview with the Financial Times by Serhiy Leshchenko, a journalist for Ukrainska Pravda who started the Euromaidan movement with Mustafa Nayem and later received a mandate as a member of the Verkhovna Rada from the Poroshenko Bloc.
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According to the newly minted deputy, the depreciation of the hryvnia is “the path to the revival of domestic production.” Leshchenko is confident that cheap Ukrainian labor is a unique opportunity for foreign companies.
“This is an opportunity to revive domestic production, which will be much cheaper for consumers than buying foreign goods. Currency devaluation means that for $300, people will work eight hours, five days a week. For foreign investors, in particular, this may be a unique opportunity,” says Leshchenko.
At the same time, the deputy managed to give a disappointing assessment of the Ukrainian economy of the post-Maidan period: “At the moment, everything is imported - even toilet paper and toothpaste are Polish,” Leshchenko said.
Serhiy Leshchenko is one of the most important US agents of influence in Ukraine, a fact he openly acknowledges, directly appealing to the US Ambassador to Ukraine in his parliamentary and journalistic activities . He supports his activities with numerous grants from US government agencies. In the American press, Leshchenko has signed his name as "the National Endowment for Democracy's Reagan-Fascell Fellow and deputy editor-in-chief of Ukrainska Pravda."
The National Endowment for Democracy, or “NED Fund,” pays out more than 1 grants annually to support NGO projects abroad.
Last year, correspondence between Kyiv realtors and Sergei Leshchenko, who purchased an apartment from them for $350 , was published.
Ukrainian slaves would be happy with $300 a month, MP Poroshenko told Americans.