Sorry for the long Reply. Though interesting... Is there any reason for the decline of the Radical left in Ukraine? And does this have any correlation with the collapse of the Soviet Union? And, thirdly, has the economy of Ukraine advanced since the fall of the USSR, or declined?
Well, actually the pro-Soviet "Communism" (in fact, a curious blend of Brezhnevite variant of Stalinism and East Ukrainian cultural autonomism) was popular in Ukraine in the 1990s, when the majority of working-class and self-employed missed the apparent 'stability' of paternalist guaranteed employment of the former USSR. Nowadays, they view post-Soviet capitalism as something "natural" and unalterable, and it is really hard to spread even the most basic leftist ideas (even mutualism and apolitical trade unionism, for Marx's and Bakunin's sake!) among the popular classes. The fake "Communist" Party is of course in existence but it fell from its former parliamentarist glory of 24% of the vote in 1998 to 3,1% in 2007, and is pretty much irrelevant now. As for the radical left, in Ukraine it is unfortunately pretty much inexistent, as there is probably 1,000 radical leftist activists around the country, and most of them are left-Brezhnevists or Maoists.
Evening comrade. I've talked with a Ukrainian guy recently who I met on vacation, and he seemed to miss life in the Soviet Union. Is 'Communism' (Both Pro Soviet and Real Communism) popular in Ukraine?
