who is dumb enough to believe this

gesturing vaguely at Twitter

The same people who earnestly believe that the Slavic skull shape makes them incapable of creating public infrastructure because they're too busy being amorous toward forest-dwelling ursines. In other words, :reddit-logo:

Ukraine is literally the poorest country in Europe now, its economy never recovered to 1991 level.

Poverty is Eastern and the further East you go the more impoverished you are