WHO IS VOLODYMYR ZELENSKY?
From a footnote about Ukraine during WWII on (pg 1046):
“Around 35,000 Ukrainians, many of them members of the OUN, the Ukrainian nationalist organization, joined the Ukrainian Auxiliary Police, who wholeheartedly murdered Jews.
A typical operation took place in the industrial town of Kryvyi Rih, where the Ukrainian Auxiliary Police murdered most of the Jews, including the members of a typical Jewish family, the Zelensky’s.
There were four Zelensky brothers. Semyon Zelensky escaped to join the Soviet Army, and rising to the level of Colonel, fought all the way to Berlin. In 2020, on a visit to the Yad Vashem memorial in Israel, his grandson, Volodymyr, called this a “story of a family of four brothers. Three of them, their parents and their families, became victims of the Holocaust. All shot by German occupiers. The fourth survived. Two years after the war, he had a son, and thirty-one years later he had a grandson.
In forty more years, that grandson became president of independent Ukraine, and he is standing before you today.”
From “The World; A Family History of Humanity”
By Simon Sebag Montefiore
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