He took everyone by surprise: Vladimir Putin, who for a long time saw in him only an inconsistent “clown”;
European diplomats, some of whom have sometimes looked down on him;
and also the Ukrainian people, who would never have believed it capable of having such a firm hand in these tragic hours.
However, if we are to believe the detailed portrait devoted to him by journalists Régis Genté (
Le Figaro
) and Stéphane Siohan (
Liberation
), the metamorphosis of Volodymyr Zelensky into an intractable warlord is in no way an accident of the story.
Quite the contrary, it marks the culmination of an evolution that follows that of Ukrainian society since independence (1991).
Fine connoisseurs of the post-Soviet space, Genté and Siohan refuse to stick to the easy portrait of Zelensky as the “Ukrainian Coluche” that the winds of populism would have projected to the forefront of the political scene.
If he is indeed the man of an era, this one can only be embraced by going back...
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