World Affairs Journal: Real men and women in Ukraine
A Dec. 22, 2004 file photo of Ukraine's then-opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko and then-ally Yulia Timoshenko (L) with star boxing brothers Wladimir Klitschko (second from left) and Vitali during a mass rally marking the one-month anniversary of the 2004 Orange Revolution that brought Yushchenko and Tymoshenko to power. Since then, Yushchenko has faded into political oblivion, Tymoshenko has been imprisoned and Vitali Klitschko has started his own party that is contesting for seats in the Oct. 28 parliamentary election.
If you’ve seen Joseph von Sternberg’s 1930 classic film The Blue Angel, you’ll know that it features the young Marlene Dietrich as the sexy chanteuse Lola-Lola who belts out a song that made her a star: “Kinder, heute abend, da such ich mir was aus.” Lola starts by saying she’s “in love with a man, but doesn’t know which one,” and then proceeds with the refrain:
