Banning men from leaving the country post-war: the way to North Korea

However, when it comes to the ban on leaving the country, it constitutes a direct ban that doesn't foster development. Instead, it only provides room for corruption to flourish. Those who had the means managed to purchase certificates a year ago, and during June and July 2022, there such trading was at its peak. Is it possible that some law enforcement officers were unaware of this? I think not. We earned money during the most challenging times on the front lines...

We started to address this a year and a half later when there was physically no one to mobilize.

“So, we need to think not about how to devalue and ban those who served honestly and were in the country during the most difficult times, but to create incentives for them not to leave and for those who did leave to return. Without all these threats of investigations and so on, even though it seems fair. It should be a national reconciliation agreement”

Incentives here are not something abstract. These are very concrete things:

- a professional contract army with high salaries. Believe me, many will want to stay.

- offer officers serious positions in the government. Their ability to lead people and create serious systems (and battalions and brigades are separate serious organisms) should definitely serve the state. So should their sense of duty to their fallen comrades...

- legalize private military companies that could also defend the country, as well as private detective companies. An unpopular item, but it will be in demand.

- organize free highly professional programming courses for veterans with disabilities. And create the most favorable tax conditions for remote work in the IT industry.

- stimulate private companies working in the military-industrial complex on high-tech projects - from drones and optics to robotics - through government orders. This can be a serious source of exports for post-war Ukraine.

- introduce tax holidays for a certain period of time - a year or three - for those who have returned and invested in private business.

- If we manage to get aid or reparations, perhaps they should be spent as interest-free loans to create Ukrainian manufacturing businesses…

In fact, there are enough incentive tools. However, their effectiveness will be realized only when we have business conditions akin to those in Singapore, rather than those of North Korea's... That is, an investment climate, not investment opportunities for the elite, an independent court, stable and liberal tax legislation, and unconditional respect for private property and human rights.

We lived in manual control, and that country was called the USSR. Our ongoing struggle is aimed at preventing the resurgence of its ghost...

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About the author. Viktoria Syumar is a journalist and media expert.

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