Posted on 04/05/2022 8:36:59 PM PDT by Zhang Fei
He was a good student. In Ukraine’s first years as an independent nation he earned a place studying law at Kryvyi Rih Economic Institute, the local campus of Kyiv National Economic University. But it was his talent as a performer that was clear to fellow high school student Irina Shport, who starred alongside Vova in a production of Marriage by Nikolai Gogol – a play about a botched matchmaking. Among a high-calibre cohort, “he was always No. 1”, she says.
One of the few creative outlets in Soviet times was the live television comedy KVN (Klub vesyólykh i nakhódchivykh or Club of the Funny and Inventive People, a sort of forerunner to America’s Got Talent). The show survived the collapse of the USSR and continued to be shown across the Russian-speaking world.
At 17, Zelensky joined the local team named for his neighbourhood, Kvartal 95, where he quickly became a star locally and then nationally. KVN was renowned for free political speech, attracting the sharpest activists of the day who honed their skills in the unstructured format of the show.
Gene Goziker, 43, who spent his youth in Kryvyi Rih and was also in a KVN team, says that Zelensky was the best of the best. Captain challenges, where leaders of the team would have only 30 seconds to freestyle content.
When Zelensky launched his unlikely run for president in 2019, promising to clean up Ukraine’s notoriously corrupt political system, he was drawing on deep personal history. Back in Kryvyi Rih, the Zelensky family name was synonymous with intergenerational integrity.
Zelensky’s grandfather and three great-uncles fought in the Soviet army against the Nazis, with only his grandfather surviving. That grandfather was Semyon, a colonel in the Red Army’s 57th Guards Motor Rifle Division, who was injured defending fellow Jews.
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Somewhat hagiographic treatment of Zelensky that explores the fading industrial town where he grew up, that was targeted during the early days of the Russian invasion.
Do steel towns typically forge many queers?
Asking for a friend . . .
You mean other than Pittsburgh?
Just like Scranton forged Joe Biden.
Just like Scranton forged Joe Biden.
Thanks to Kolomoisky, Zelenskyy is part owner of a production company that has at least $50 million stashed in offshore banks. He put the company into a trust but refused to stop regular payments to his wife, which means he didn’t actually divest himself from the company which he was supposed to do.
He’s also done nothing to reign in the neo Nazi militias running rampant through the Ukrainian military. Their main targets are Romas, gays, and Russians.
I don’t wanna read another story about his “integrity.” 😂
[His campaign was funded by Kolomoisky, a corrupt Russian oligarch living in Ukraine. His career in the entertainment industry was also bankrolled by that same oligarch who is now on the run.
Thanks to Kolomoisky, Zelenskyy is part owner of a production company that has at least $50 million stashed in offshore banks. He put the company into a trust but refused to stop regular payments to his wife, which means he didn’t actually divest himself from the company which he was supposed to do.
He’s also done nothing to reign in the neo Nazi militias running rampant through the Ukrainian military. Their main targets are Romas, gays, and Russians.
I don’t wanna read another story about his “integrity.” 😂 ]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_INFEKTION
I suspect if it ever turns out that the Russians end up winning and wiping out millions of Ukrainians in death camps, you’d say that was the CIA at work smearing Russia’s good name.
“neo Nazi militias running rampant through the Ukrainian military”
Sorry, that’s a lie. Running rampant? Nope
Shame!
Hmmm...
You mean like Russia has been using these guys in UA since the early 2000’s, and especially since 2012 —
Deaths of the following, are far less likely to be counted, as it would reveal how Moscow has literally been training and supporting neo-NAZI’s, and since 2004/2005 not just in Eastern Ukraine —
https://informnapalm.org/en/russian-neo-nazis-in-the-ranks-of-wagner-pmc/
https://bitterwinter.org/nazism-in-ukraine-7-russian-propaganda/
https://bitterwinter.org/nazism-in-ukraine-6-pro-russian-nazi-fighters/
https://newslanc.com/tsukerman-russian-nazi-volunteers-in-donbas/
Russian Communist/Nazi alliance fighting in Donbas to take Eastern Ukraine for Russia —
Communist and NAZI’s supported and fighting together
https://www.outono.net/elentir/2022/03/01/the-alliance-of-pro-russian-communists-and-nazis-fighting-against-ukraine-in-donbas/
Sent from Russia, how could this possibly be —
https://khpg.org/en/1608809502
https://khpg.org/en/1445287320
Russian 8th Army in Ukraine —
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_separatist_forces_in_Donbas
SCROLL DOWN AND LOOK AT SOME OF THESE PICS
Scratch that, you don’t want to know —
https://newslanc.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/volunteer05.png
is that where he learned to successfully play the piano
with his penis while naked and telling jokes??
A lot of Freepers have lady-wood for Zelensky.
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