Speaking of Zelenskiy, some people may be unfamiliar. But when it comes to the russian-Ukrainian situation that has been fermenting recently, you can guess who he is, yes! He is the current president of Ukraine, Vladimir. Zelenskiy.
A legend who brings drama to life!
Zelenskiy was born in 1978 to a Jewish family in krivorog, eastern Ukraine, to a father who was a professor at the University of Economics and an engineer to an engineer.
Growing up in a well-off family, Zelenskiy was versatile from an early age, proficient in wrestling, weightlifting, piano, drama and so on, and was a typical "other person's child".
Zelenskiy as a child
When he was young, Zelenskiy's most desirable career was to be an actor.
In 1994, Zelenskiy passed the TOEFL test and planned to study in Israel, but under the persuasion and request of his parents, he was eventually admitted to the Kyiv University of Economics Law School.
If everything goes according to the normal steps, Zelenskiy may become a lawyer in the future.
But in fact, except for the two-month internship period, he has never worked in law-related work, because he does not like the legal profession, and in his heart he has never given up the dream of acting.
To this end, he has participated in comedy talent shows, run dragon sets in the crew, and formed a television production company called "95 Blocks", becoming a household name for Comedy King in Ukraine.
What ultimately made Zelenskiy a hit was the 2015 anti-corruption comedy "Servant of the People", which mocked the corruption of the Ukrainian government.
In the play, Zelenskiy plays an ordinary middle school teacher Vasha, who is an idealist who is filmed by students and puts it on the Internet because of his criticism of the Ukrainian government's corruption and corruption, spitting on the meaningless remarks of voting in the election, but does not want to be sought after.
The long-oppressed Ukrainian people, already disillusioned with the arbitrary oligarchic government, frantically supported Vasha, and in the play, Vasha was eventually elected president with a 60 percent turnout.
Perhaps people have turned their expectations of the role into real sustenance, in reality, Zelenskiy's popularity is even higher than that of Vasha, who was elected as the sixth president of Ukraine with 73.3% approval.
In fact, zelenskiy was running for president along with the Ukrainian gas princess and the chocolate king, both of whom were monopolistic oligarchs and could only choose between worse and worse.
They believe that for many years they have selected serious politicians, and all they get is a farce, the wind of corruption is higher than the wave, the economy is even more collapsed, so why not vote for a comedian, at least he has not been corrupted by the dark bureaucratic wind, maybe there will be a miracle?
As in the play, Zelenskiy's path to president is not smooth, isolated by other oligarchic officials and unable to even make decisions about whether to cancel the parade, while busy cleaning up corrupt officials and improving the declining economy.
At the beginning of his term of office in 2019, Zelenskiy's anti-widowership and anti-corruption enthusiasm was extremely high, and he replaced the chief executives of more than 70 places, but Ukraine's oligarchs and their related interest groups were entangled in confusion and had long penetrated every aspect and were difficult to shake.
Zelenskiy's political experience is small, his circle is small, and he can only rely on the support of Western countries to promote his anti-corruption and anti-corruption action agenda.
It's just that what he didn't expect was blindly attaching himself to others, and he could only put himself into a more passive situation. As the saying goes, playing iron also needs to be hard, and only when you are strong can you have the courage to clamor for others.
Putin once said of Zelenskiy: "He was a good comedian, but he made his country a tragedy." ”
"Comedian" may be the label that everyone laughs at him, but we can't judge the merits and demerits.
The hero does not ask the source, at the beginning, Zelenskiy is to bring hope to Ukraine, he tells the suffering of the people at the bottom from a satirical perspective, giving ordinary people a sarcastic outlet, but it backfires, the ideal is very full, the reality is very bone.
At present, the situation in Russia and Ukraine is at a serious time, and it is the ordinary people who are suffering under the fire of war, and the Ukrainian people may not have imagined that they, like their president, are undergoing the evolution from comedy to tragedy, and who can say clearly about the unknown changes?
Finally, I just want to sigh how lucky we are to be born in a great and peaceful motherland, and I wish for world peace!