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(THIS IS THE JEWISH GROUP! RESPECT!!)Besides Israel, Ukraine is the only country that has a Jewish president, Volodymyr Zelensky and until the end of August, it also had a Jewish prime minister, Volodomyr Groysman. Zelensky has served since May, and has already proved to be both popular and powerful, while at the same time being colorful and controversial.
Zelensky has been in the news recently at the center of a scandal that could lead to the impeachment of US President Donald Trump. According to news reports, Trump - in a July 25 phone call - asked Zelensky to investigate Joe Bidens sons ties to an allegedly corrupt Ukrainian natural gas company. The report prompted a call by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for an impeachment inquiry of Trump.
A former comedian as well as an actor, director and screenwriter, Zelensky has a degree in law, but rather than following a legal career decided to establish Kvartal 95, a company that produces films and TV shows.
Under his leadership, the company created a satirical television series titled Servant of the People, in which Zelensky played the role of Ukraines president, Vasyl Petrovych Holoborodko. It became a huge hit among Ukraines population of 45 million, and led to Zelensky challenging then-president Petro Poroshenko in the 2019 election.
In his reelection campaign, Poroshenko accused Zelensky of being a puppet of Jewish billionaire Ihor Kolomoyskyi, who operates a business empire in Ukraine and has a home in Israel. Kolomoyskyi ran Zelenskys comedy shows on his TV station and despised Poroshenko for nationalizing his bank, PrivatBank. A month after taking office, Zelensky appointed Andriy Bogdan, Kolomoysyis personal lawyer, as his chief of staff.
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(Jewish Group) Volodymyr Zelensky: Ukrainian Jew entangled in Trump's impeachment scandal (Original Post)
Behind the Aegis
Oct 2019
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rpannier
(24,329 posts)1. K&R Interesting Article
I learned a little more about Zelensky.
I knew he was a television personality/actor
Didn't realize he graduated the bar.
Thanks for posting
of note:
I noticed his opponents falling back on the Jewish conspiracy theory of one Jew supporting the other thing during his campaign
Behind the Aegis
(53,944 posts)2. Trust me; anti-Semitism is about to rear its ugly head.
It won't just be the Russians either!!