The idea that Yushchenko is some kind of outsider, whose victory will cause the fresh winds of free-market reform to blow through the sealed chamber of corruption that is the Ukrainian economy is another Western fairy tale that has no basis in reality.

Yushie is a key figure in the oligarchic system of “crony capitalism” that has enriched the few at the expense of the many since the fall of the USSR.

[Thanks to Justin Raimondo at Antiwar].