On Fe. 7, hundreds of Facebook users in Ukraine posted videos with red nose filters. Everyone ended up looking like a clown, and that was precisely the point. Ukrainians are clowns because they’ve allowed the country’s political elites to rob them blind, keeping salaries and social benefits low. This was part of a flash mob started by Volodymyr Zelenskiy, a Ukrainian comedian and the surprise leader in the latest polls for the presidential election slated for March 31.
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Presidential candidate and popular comedic actor Volodymyr Zelenskiy walk to register as a candidate with the Central Election Commission on Jan. 25, 2019, in Kyiv.
