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Related: About this forumArticle on Zelensky's Jewish background: How Zelensky gave the world a Jewish hero
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Article on Zelensky's Jewish background: How Zelensky gave the world a Jewish hero (Original Post)
JudyM
Feb 2022
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Sneederbunk
(15,618 posts)1. OK Israel, now dispatch Mossad.
Behind the Aegis
(55,078 posts)2. Huh?
That would be a political disaster.
question everything
(49,499 posts)3. Some spell it Zelenskyy. More
In spite of Ukraine's dark history of antisemitism, reaching back centuries to Cossack pogroms and the collaboration of some anti-Soviet nationalists with Nazi genocide during World War II, Ukraine after Zelenskyy's election in 2019 became the only country outside of Israel with both a president and prime minister who were Jewish. (Zelenskyy's grandfather fought in the Soviet Army against the Nazis, while other family died in the Holocaust.)
https://www.goskagit.com/news/world/zelenskyys-unlikely-journey-from-comedy-to-ukrainian-hero/article_d533fb9b-a60b-593b-b229-7f69de06e710.html