Sometimes Yanukovych reminds me of Stalin

Better the grain should rot than provide income to Ukrainian farmers. That could have as easily been attributed to Uncle Joe during the famine-genocide as to the government of Viktor Yanukovych this past year. See attached report from Radio Free Europe:

Up to 10,000 tons of Ukrainian grain is being thrown into the Black Sea every night, Ukrainian Television reported on January 26.

The grain, loaded into elevators at Ukrainian ports last summer to be subsequently exported, was stored for too long because the government of Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych introduced grain-export quotas. The government justified the quotas by saying there would be not enough grain for domestic needs. Having been stored for six months, the grain reportedly spoiled, germinated, and was attacked by insects.
The volume of unusable grain now amounts to some 270,000 tons.

Farmers say the grain market in Ukraine is saturated with 6 million tons of excess grain, which could be sold abroad for 4 billion hryvnyas ($800 million). "It is a paradoxical situation that this country has never seen before. Every night 5,000-10,000 tons of grain are thrown out into the Black Sea, feeding fish. At the same time, we are looking for funds for the agricultural sector," Ukrainian Television quoted Ukrainian Agrarian Confederation Chairman Leonid Kozachenko as saying.

This is the type of corrupt and backwards managemnt that Ukrainians have come to expect from the Kuchma/Yanukovych regime. Sad really.