And, to do that, an energetic civil society must demand an end to crony capitalism. Ukraine’s citizens can become more like their Central European neighbors, or they can allow the economy’s many distortions from past bad policies to persist, in which case they will fall further behind.
乌克兰在过去20年间的纪录说明仅仅抛弃社会主义是不够的。真正的挑战在于建立自由市场以及以规则为基础的资本主义。为了实现这一点，一个充满活力的公民社会必须迫使权贵资本主义走向终结。而乌克兰的公民们要么进一步他们的中欧邻居看齐，要么就容忍过往错误政策所带来的经济紊乱持续下去——这也将令他们更加被人远远抛在后面。