November 13, 2019 AN ONLINE PUBLICATION OF THE ANONYMOUS ANYTHING SOCIETY |
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Ukrainian
President Zelensky |
ABOUT VOLODMYR ZELENSKY, PRESIDENT OF THE UKRAINE – Chapter 1
Zelensky reminds me of a combination Dustin Hoffman and Steve Martin,
because he looks like Hoffman when he smiles and acts like Martin when
Steve played one of the skit characters, on “Saturday Night Live.”.
Both are experienced satirists, who spent most of their professional
lives being members of a troupe of TV performers who “make fun” of
public figures and the signs of the times.
The big difference is that Martin is now recognized as a great banjo
picker while Zelensky is the beleaguered President of a sovereign nation
hoping to escape being made part of Putin’s Russia, a role it played in
the long since defunct USSR.
Zelensky was born in Kryvri Rih, a mining and manufacturing town in the
southeast of the Ukraine. His family is Jewish. His father, Alexander,
teaches computer science and his mother, Rimma, is an engineer.
In
the early nineteen- hundreds, Zelensky joined a group of funny,
inventive young people who were obviously inspired by the success of
America’s “Saturday Night Live” and soon appeared on a television
station located in Kiev, the capitol.
They called their production “Servant of the People,” and it starred
Zelensky as Vasyl Holoborodko, an “Everyman.” (as Jimmy Stewart did in
“Mister Smith Goes to Washington.”)
The show was an immediate, overwhelming success. Everywhere, but in the
Kremlin. Russians and Ukrainians both use the Cyrillic alphabet and as
persons from West Texas might have a little difficulty with accents and
colloquialisms while talking to a Brooklynite, they can communicate.
So, what is a nice Ukrainian “man on the street” comedian doing in a
bitter political donnybrook taking place in the USA? Return for Chapter
2 Next Week.
-Phil Richardson, Storyteller and Observer of The Human
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