Monday, February 28, 2022

Volodymyr Zelensky was a Jewish comedian. Now the world's eyes are on him.

Simple clothing instead of suits! Unpretentious and with humor! Best of luck and success to him and the Ukrainian people! May he have the strengths and fortitude to resist the Russian invasion.

Is this Jewish man the reason why Putin the Terrible wants to "denazify" the Ukraine? (I admit, a bad joke)

"Four years ago, Volodymyr Zelensky was an actor on the humorous Ukrainian TV show “Servant of the People,” starring as an unlikely president of the Eastern European country. ...
Over the course of a few years, Zelensky — who is the first-ever Jewish president of Ukraine, a country with a long and complicated Jewish history — has quickly become one of the most consequential and prominent Jewish world leaders in recent decades. And given his nonpolitical roots, one of the unlikeliest. ...
Zelensky was born in a Russian-speaking area of eastern Ukraine to Jewish parents, a mother who was an engineer and a father who is a computer scientist. His father’s father, Semyon, served in the Soviet Red Army during World War II; Semyon’s father and brothers were all murdered in the Holocaust. ..."

Volodymyr Zelensky was a Jewish comedian. Now the world's eyes are on him. - Jewish Telegraphic Agency


Volodymyr and his wife in better times!


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