Fwd: Ukraine/Poland

'In forging Turkey out of the ruins of the Ottoman Empire, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk warned his countrymen in 1923 that all they had accomplished hung in a most tenuous balance: "No matter how great they are, political and military victories cannot endure unless they are crowned by economic triumphs." Ninety years later, Atatürk's wisdom applies not just to Turkey at its inception but to all people, in all times, who seek to win and preserve freedom and independence.

There is no better modern example of the power of an economic triumph than the experience of Ukraine and Poland in the post-Cold War era. With the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the U.S.S.R., both nations—which emerged from Soviet domination with virtually identical economic and political systems—suddenly faced the rarest of Central European conditions: independence.

 

http://online.wsj.com/articles/phil-gramm-and-michael-solon-a-lesson-for-america-in-polands-rise-and-ukraines-fall-1409353092

 

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John Coffey

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