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Comedian Volodymyr Zelensky is the new Ukrainian President
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21-04-2019 6:19pm#1
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mad muffin wrote: »They could have elected a bucket. For all the difference it will make.
I know who's got my vote.
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Mariska Hargitay wrote: »Comedian Volodymyr Zelensky is set to become the new President of Ukraine with exit polls predicting he has won more than 70% of the votes.
TBH I'm very surprised, I though Petro Poroshenko would get in again given the fact that experience has been at the forefront of this campaign. Poroshenko has years of experience whilst Zelensky is a novice.
This could set a precedent, experience on politics is not always needed to win votes...
There is nuance.
Zelensky is a leftest. He is also a Ukrainian nationalist.
Plus one of the things Putin was doing in crimea was spreading anti semitc propaganda.
There is a very large jewish community in ukraine. And a lot had to leave crimea they say putin had gangs on the ground intimidate them.
The fled to places like Odessa and Uman. There are huge jewish pilgrimages to Uman.
Zelensky is a liberal nationalist who supported the Euromaiden with is own pocket he supported Ukrainian forces against Russia with his own money...
He is also Jewish. He is the country's first Jewish president.
And yes ..he was also a comedian.
He must be driving Putin MENTAL! He also has some harsh words for Merkel.
Kyiv had its pride day for LGBT.....it went well.
https://www.unian.info/politics/10588368-crimea-is-ukraine-zelensky-on-what-he-would-tell-putin-in-person.html
His stance on Crimea is unmovable.
And he make Merkel SHAKE (ok she was sick but still he stands up to both the west and putin)
Putin must be sick all his antisemitic propaganda didn't work and that Ukraine is swinging left.
It's a rejection of Putin's fascism.0 -
ILoveYourVibes wrote: »There is nuance.
Zelensky is a leftest. He is also a Ukrainian nationalist.
Plus one of the things Putin was doing in crimea was spreading anti semitc propaganda.
There is a very large jewish community in ukraine. And a lot had to leave crimea they say putin had gangs on the ground intimidate them.
The fled to places like Odessa and Uman. There are huge jewish pilgrimages to Uman.
Zelensky is a liberal nationalist who supported the Euromaiden with is own pocket he supported Ukrainian forces against Russia with his own money...
He is also Jewish. He is the country's first Jewish president.
And yes ..he was also a comedian.
He must be driving Putin MENTAL! He also has some harsh words for Merkel.
Kyiv had its pride day for LGBT.....it went well.
https://www.unian.info/politics/10588368-crimea-is-ukraine-zelensky-on-what-he-would-tell-putin-in-person.html
His stance on Crimea is unmovable.
And he make Merkel SHAKE (ok she was sick but still he stands up to both the west and putin)
Putin must be sick all his antisemitic propaganda didn't work and that Ukraine is swinging left.
It's a rejection of Putin's fascism.
That's an interesting slant you've taken, because we've seen traditional Ukrainian nationalism heavily linked with the right-wing - both historically with Bandera, who followed a very definite anti-semitic policy in occupied Ukraine during WWII - and today with significant political forces having anti-semitic views.
Have a look at the Azov battalion - which is a Ukrainian defence unit - whose insignia features Wolfsangel, recognise that anywhere? It was used by a number of German Wehrmacht units during WWII, including the SS Das Reich.
That's no coincidence. Ultranationalists in Ukraine have, for a long time, identified or sympathised with the Nazis.
There has been a significant escalation in anti-semitic intimidation and attacks in Ukraine in the past decade, and if the Jewish community is fleeing Ukraine, it is because of nationalists/ultranationalists.
This has all been well documented, there is too much overwhelming evidence to ignore, so I can only assume you are either completely ignorant of it or just choosing to ignore in order to score points against Putin.
The Russian administration, especially under Putin, are no saints, but some of the **** the Ukrainians have been up to puts his ilk in the shade.0 -
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You wouldn't have a Jewish president elected in Ireland because there are almost no Jewish politicians here, rather than intermarry with the Irish, they all choose to move to London from the 1950s onwards. Dublin had a substantial Jewish community for quite some time but they chose to leave in order to marry fellow Jews.
Actually Jews do intermarry here.
And Irish Jews intermarry in London too.
Ireland never let enough Jews IN to have a substantial jewish community. Not even during ww2.Absolutely no doubt, this country has had a very mixed approach to Jewish emigration - to be truthful, it was shameful - in that Jews were blocked coming to the country especially during before and during WWII, but it made no pressure to make them leave afterwards
I don't think Ireland understands jews at all tbh. That could be changing I don't know. 0 -
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TheValeyard wrote: »If we could elect a gay son of an immigrant as leader of this country, so could anyone from any background. We've had Jewish lord Mayors and TDs, ministers before.
Well thank you. Maybe I will choose to believe that instead.
Everybody loves jews
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