Only posts about Ukraine are not based on my actual travel.
The films shot in Ukraine remind me of "Battleship Potemkin" , "Sunflower" , and "Fiddler on the Roof."
The village in "Fiddler on the Roof" looked like a small village on the Great Plains, but, the model of the village was Boyarka which was located in the suburbs, a 30-minute train ride from Kyiv now, and, it seems to be a commuter town.
The backdrop of the film is the Jewish exclusion movement Pogrom in the latter half of the 19th century. At the end of the film, the Jewish protagonists went abroad. In Babi Yar in Kyiv, the Holocaust took place during World War II.
The reason why I refer to Ukraine's delicate history is that President Zelensky is a Ukrainian Jew. It seems that Ukrainian society has matured over the 30 years since the collapse of the Soviet Union, which didn't touch the history of Jewish exclusion. The monument established in 1991 stands on Babi Yar. President Zelensky's career as an entertainer began in 1997. Even if domestic friction on the negative history exists, the fact that Ukrainians led to the election of a Jewish president shows the permeation of liberalism and the diversity of society. That is the driving force of resistance against Russia's tyranny.
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