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Here I sit staring at the computer monitor and ponder the thought whether Yanukovych will become Ukraine’s Kwasniewski?

I was in Poland on November 19, 1995, when Alexander Kwasniewski was elected the country’s president in the second round of the elections. He won by 3.4%, having gained 51.7% of the votes over the 48.3% of his opponent Lech Walensa, the leader of the legendary Solidarnosc Party.

Kwasniewski was accused in the press of collaborating with the country’s special intelligence service and the fact that he claimed to have an education that in truth he did not. Polish democrats and their proponents all over the world were in a state of utter shock. This inherently gave birth to analogies elsewhere.

Do you what happened further?

President Kwasniewski led his country with an iron fist to membership in NATO and the EU. In his two terms in office he fostered the development of Poland as a democratic country with a modernized economy that became authoritative and integrated in the global structure.

This begs the question whether or not Viktor Yanukovych can resolve the main problems Ukraine faces today – namely, overcoming the economic crisis, uniting the West and the East into a multi-cultural Ukrainian nation, become a European economic powerhouse, transform its legislators into European parliamentarians, win the war against corruption and the shadow economy and, finally, offer grounds to me and other Ukrainians to be proud of our country as one of the world’s leaders…

What are your thoughts on this?