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October 19, 2009 (LPAC)—During a visit to Wiesbaden, Natalia Vitrenko and Vladimir Marchenko, national chairwoman and deputy chairman of the Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine, signers of the Helga Zepp-LaRouche's first Call for a New Bretton Woods more than 10 years ago, gave a short but highly instructive seminar on Sunday. Vitrenko had brought a poster from her Presidential campaign in Ukraine of 1999, depicting her against a background which showed the LaRouche Triple Curve. She reported that during that campaign, in which she presented to the electorate the LaRouche method as the only one leading out of the crisis, poll ratings several weeks before the election then gave her 32%, which meant that "these people would have voted for LaRouche." The increasing popularity of Vitrenko scared the monetarist cabal which had other plans for Ukraine, and on Oct. 2, someone threw bombs into a campaign rally of Vitrenko's party, which wounded her and Marchenko plus 42 others, some of whom are suffering from that to this day—and still, the terrorists who did it have not been identified.

Vitrenko had outlined before how she, still studying economics under the Soviet system, became convinced that something went wrong in the way economic policy was carried out then, and that there was need for a profound reform. In 1994, she made the acquaintance of Lyndon LaRouche, and in 1995, she attended a Schiller Institute conference, and the discussions there were worked into the party program of her new party, the Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine, calling for a fundamental reform, a paradigm shift in policies, based on the LaRouche method. Since then, she and her movement have campaigned for that, against the orchestration of monetarist colonization of Ukraine—which not only served the purpose of looting Ukraine, but also to turn it into a platform for outright neo-fascist attacks on Russia. The revival of fascist traditions of the anti-Soviet period of the Nazi era in Ukraine has taken a boost, Vitrenko reported, from the Orange Revolution coup that put Viktor Yushchenko into the Presidential seat, without being elected, at the end of 2004. The revival of these Nazi traditions is coordinated with similar developments in the three Baltic republics, fomented by imperialist factions in London, Brussels (NATO and EU) and IMF/Wall Street, and her movement has repeatedly staged big rallies protesting against this conspiracy against Ukraine—in Odessa, Sevastopol, Charkov, Lugansk, Donestk, and Kiev, among other cities (here, Vitrenko showed film clips of these rallies).

Ever since Ukraine's elite decided to surrender to the IMF in 1992, the situation in Ukraine has worsened to a point that 70% of the working people receive wages at or below the official minimum wage level, that life expectancy is down to 66 years, that 50% of male workers never reach their retirement age, that the population which was 52 million in 1990 and expected to increase to 59 million by 2009, is down to 46 million, with 7 million living and working abroad—a difference of 13 million between the forecast and the present reality, which means that Ukraine lost 25% of its population—which is genocide, pursued by the monetarist institions and elites of the West which hate mankind, hate human beings anyway. The average income of a Ukrainian is 10% of what his or her colleague would earn in Germany, but as Vitrenko and Marchenko personally saw in Wiesbaden, the prices in Ukraine are 2-3 times those that items costs in Germany. The new state debt ($35 billion) of Ukraine is almost equal to the entire fiscal year state budget ($38 billion), and the total foreign debt is $120 billion, or 85% of the annual GDP—a GDP which will shrink by 15% in 2010, as experts warn, and in 2011, most of the foreign debt of Ukraine will mature, and can naturally not be paid back. The result of that policy is that the interests that promote that, want to maneuver Ukraine into a desperate position to sell out to the creditors, especially sell out the famous, highly-fertile "black soil" which has always made Ukraine a bread-basket of the world. Ukraine was once the number two industrialized nation inside the Soviet Union, after Russia, but its production is down to 20% of what it was in 1990, and GDP is down to 60% of what it was then. The loans that Ukraine is taking from the IMF and Western banks, all flow into the Ukrainian banking sector, into consumption loans, not one single dollar going into the maintenance or new construction of crucial transport, energy and water supply infrastructure, housing and the like. A class of new rich people, traitors, are working with the creditors, and nearly all of the members of the Parliament, make their own financial cut with speculation—therefore it is no big surprise that they don't want changes in this policy. The younger generation has no future in this kind of system, and is falling victim to alcohol and drugs.

Vitrenko's party, which in the last national elections mysteriously failed to re-enter the national Parliament by a few hundred votes nationwide, was denied a recount of the vote, evidently because certain people do not want her and her party in the Parliament. But the party is strong in several regions of Ukraine, it does have more than 1,000 deputies in local and regional parliaments that are highly respected for their role in organizing the defense of Ukraine, its economy and population against the imperial monetarists, and LaRouche's Triple Curve is known to many Ukrainians, naturally. Vitrenko also elaborated that her movement and party are based on science, especially on the work of Vernadsky, and the latter's stated view that in order to have a responsible way of making politics for mankind, one needs a reasonable society, with reason and science at the center. That is diametrically opposed to the anti-human policies of the present system. Vitrenko called for a new Schiller Institute conference like the earlier ones with leaders from 30-40 countries of the world, to save mankind from the new dark age.