TV Star Front Runner for Ukrainian President
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In the words of Oscar Wilde “life imitates art far more than art imitates life”.
A comic actor who scored a ratings bonanza playing a hapless Ukrainian history school teacher who inadvertently becomes the nation’s President has found himself the clear front-runner in the Ukraine’s presidential election, according to the latest polling by Ukrainian agency, Rating.
Volodymyr Zelenskiy, the Servant of The People reality star in question, has hit a raw nerve in the former satellite state on a program of anti-corruption and anti-establishment policies. Has Ukraine’s history with the Soviet Union helped bridge the gap between the Cult of The Personality and The Cult of The Celebrity?
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