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Zelensky's story is so extraordinary it ought to be a Hollywood movie... CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews Last Night's TV
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That's no more unlikely than what happened in Ukraine, where under-sized Saturday night variety star and professional cheeky-chappie Volodymyr Zelensky has been transformed, into not only the President but arguably the most effective, courageous and charismatic wartime leader since Winston Churchill. Those in the UK who'd heard of Zelensky might have been aware that he'd won the Slavic version of Strictly, and starred in a sitcom called Servant Of The People, in which he played an ordinary man unexpectedly elected president. Other friends were more circumspect, but a portrait emerged of an ambitious young actor who was intensely loyal to those who stuck by him — a natural leader, with a deep suspicion of Russia and its dictator, Vladimir Putin.
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