Gordon’s interview with Zelensky: how the fictional Goloborodko surpassed his actor

So, before moving on to those, who managed to overcome their dislike and disgust from the style of the interview with Dmytro Gordon (this is when you watch the video of 2018, and it seems that you watch the tape from your grandmother’s wedding), let’s read those, who did not dare to do it. For example, the famous journalist, publicist, and historian Vakhtang Kipiani. The author didn’t watch the interview, but he did get acquainted with the main theses. So, the main point is about ending of the war, where Zelensky plans to “put the demands on both sides”. In short, congratulations, we have witnessed a unique phenomenon: the fiasco of a politician before joining politics.

The blogger Olena Dobrovolska also limited herself with to text version. She says Zelensky is an analog of a certain Darth Vader, created by one of the people’s deputies for part of the Odesa electorate, after all, the electorate didn’t disappoint them.

And if you cannot decide whether to watch it or not, here are the three main points, according to political analyst Viktor Taran: Zelensky plans to bring to the referendum the issue of agreements with the Kremlin, what they will give us and what they leave to themselves. If the Verkhovna Rada doesn’t give consent… Zelensky will simply dismiss the Verkhovna Rada. And he will also bring together the oligarchs and “nullify” the declaration, legalizing the capital. And the most interesting thing: he will come to an agreement that none of the oligarchs will have its own deputies. Well, personally it seems to me that Mr. Zelensky has forgotten that he is not on the stage, but in front of Gordon.

Well, or a shorter and somewhat different version from Bohdan Karpenko.

MP Ihor Mosiychuk dryly noted that playing the president’s role in the cinema and being the president of a belligerent country are slightly different things. In short, Zelensky is not Goloborodko, and he will never be.

Another MP, Boryslav Bereza, instead stressed that the interview turned out to be quite normal, and Zelensky has the potential of a politician. The only thing that the showman doesn’t have yet is his own team. That’s the way the cookie crumbles.

The journalist Maryna Danylyuk-Yarmolayeva estimated the prospects of Zelensky somewhat differently. Like, this is “political meatballs from the factory canteen”. Just like this. In short, from the same servings of meatballs that promise peace with the aggressor.

But blogger Denys Kazansky is convinced that Zelensky’s very first interview on a political topic immediately… exposed his weak spot. And it is not that the comic has no answers to a number of important questions. Others also don’t have these answers. The problem, according to the author of the post, is that Zelensky-politician is much less interesting than Zelensky-artist. Not bad, but just banal, imperceptible and gray.

In addition, the serial image played a cruel joke with the showman: viewers see in the presidential ratings not the artist, but his character ‒ Goloborodko from “The Servant of the People”. Something like this.

Journalist Olena Shkarpova believes that before Gordon has not talked about the Zelensky presidency, everything was pretty good. But when a journalist approached questions about political plans, some kind of trash began. Or really wild naivety.

The blogger and public figure Andrii Smolii is generally convinced that Zelensky, through his statements, translates the Kremlin’s dark sides. According to the author, the entire story of Kvartal’s work (Zelensky humoristic project) ‒  work for the Russian market. So, on the propaganda of the Kremlin, which for the fifth year is at war with Ukraine.

And yet, a few wonderful things about the common ground between the interview with Zelensky and the conversation with Kolomoisky. As was noted by blogger Roman Shraik, you may not even watch them. This is not an advice, but an example: you can live without it.

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