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This study offers an analysis of the reasons for Ukraine's abysmal economic performance during the 1990s. The text's man thesis is that economic development was blocked by a set of parasitic mechanisms at all levels of the economy that prevented the growth of value-added economic activities. These parasitic mechanisms, already developed under Soviet rule ("beating the system" by redistributing goods and services while disregarding formal rules), became a widespread practice.