Criminal Case for a One Stolen Dollar

Recently, People's Deputy of Ukraine Anatoliy Hunko, elected from the presidential party but later switched to a nominally opposition one, was sentenced to 4 years for receiving a bribe of $85,000.

By the way, he and his colleagues would like to thank you and your government for the financial injections, without which the sweet life of many such officials would be impossible.

At the same time:

-A Kyiv resident stole groceries from a supermarket worth $48 (no extra zeros), and received 7 years in prison. In court, he said he hadn’t eaten for a day and was hungry;
https://www.brd24.com/news/7-rokiv-v-iaznytsi-za-kradizhku-na-2-000-hryven-berdiantsia-zasudyly-za-hrabunok-supermarketu.html

-In Dnipro, another man also got 7 years for stealing three boxes of candies and seven chocolate bars totaling $24;
https://drohobych.city/articles/424092/urodzhencya-drogobicha-zasudili-do-7-rokiv-za-gratami-za-kradizhku-shokoladok-z-supermarketa-u-dnipri

-In Kharkiv, a woman stole 22 chocolate bars for subsequent resale and received 5 years;
https://www.obozrevatel.com/ukr/rozsliduvannya/u-harkovi-zhinka-otrimala-5-rokiv-vyaznitsi-za-kradizhku-shokoladok-z-magazinu.htm

-A resident of the Lviv region stole groceries from a supermarket worth $17. In court, she stated that she took the food for personal consumption because she had no money. She compensated for the material damage. She received 5 years in prison;
https://lviv.tsn.ua/ru/lviv/v-ukraine-strogo-nakazali-odinokuyu-mat-za-krazhu-kolbasy-i-syra-na-575-grn-2959151.html

-And finally, in a hardware store in Kyiv, a man stole goods worth $9 and got 8 years in prison. That is, roughly one year of prison for every stolen dollar and twenty cents!
https://informator.ua/ru/muzhchine-dali-vosem-let-tyurmy-za-krazhu-tovara-iz-epicentra-na-355-griven-reshenie-suda

So what? In the USSR, by the way, people were "shot for a few ears of grain". And here they only get 5 years. It’s completely different!

Such strange decommunization