Time of leaders | Ukrainian Truth

Eighty years ago, on April 12, 1945, the 32nd President of the United States Franklin Delano Roosevelt died.

Soon the news of his death reached Nazi Germany and caused a storm of triumph and hope. The propaganda Gebbels Minister called Adolf Hitler immediately to share the joyous news: « My Fuhrer, I congratulate you! The stars indicated that the second half of April would be a turning point for us. » And the inspired Hitler issued an order on the army, which said: « Now that one of the greatest criminals of all time has disappeared from the earth, a decisive turn in all war has come. »

As we know, there was actually no fracture during the war.

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The death of one person – even very influential and extraordinary – has not changed the overall placement of forces. The Wehrmacht was still defeated. Germany still capitulated. Allies from the anti -Hitler coalition still won.

It would seem that this historical episode indicates that the role of an individual personality in history should not be exaggerated – and it is not necessary to put a sign of equality between the whole state and its leader. However, for 80 years, world news has been led to the opposite conclusion.

In the spring of 2025, the attention of all humanity is drawn to the 47th President of the United States Donald Trump. And this time the owner’s change in the oval office provoked A real planetary tsunami.

Observing Trump and his scandalous initiatives is not just a story about adventurism and incompetence, trade wars and collapse of markets, about the territorial claims and risks of the Third World War.

First of all, it is the story of how one person is able to turn upside down not only a whole state, but a whole planet. Make decisions that will change life not even millions – billions of people.

Donald Trump is trying to emphasize the meaning and impact of all his activities individual personality. The owner of the White House tries to prove that in the 2020s, it was time for leaders. That the true creators of world history are not peoples, nations, classes, parties, parliaments, general staffs or global corporations, namely leaders.

Symptomatic that for the first year the same is proved by the elderly master of the Kremlin, whom Trump considers with his friend. Propagandist formula « is Putin – there is Russia. No Putin – no Russia » born long to a full -scale invasion of Ukraine. And after 24.02.2022, it has gained new sound and new content.

No matter how much in Kiev they are discussed about the centuries -old traditions of Russian imperialism and the collective responsibility of Russians for armed aggression, Putin is still perceived as a key figure of the Great War. And this perception remains so stable that in a recent interview with Eurovision News President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy publicly linked Establishing a strong peace with the death of a Russian dictator: « It will die soon, it is a fact, and it will end. »

In turn, both Moscow and Washington are positioned by Zelensky as a key figure of Ukrainian resistance. The Kremlin is trying hard to delegitimize the current president, declare it the main obstacle to the « peace » and They require it to be eliminated.

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As a result, Vladimir Alexandrovich begins to look like a major obstacle that protects Ukraine from capitulation on Kremlin. And public attacks by Trump and Trumpists on the Ukrainian leader increase the effect: after the February clash in the White House, the level of support of the current president in Ukraine Sharily increased. The more active Victoria Spartz Agree against Zelensky, more reasons to consolidate around the head of state appears in our fellow citizens.

And here it should be noted that Ukraine enters a good prepared man in the day. Domestic politics has always remained Rain. The decades of our history have passed under the sign of President Kuchma and even gave rise to the term « Kuchmism. » The further transformation of the Parliamentary Parliamentary Republic into a parliamentary-presidential did not change the rules of the game.

All the conversations that Ukraine need strong institutions and real ideological parties, mostly rotated. In practice, any successful Ukrainian political trial was tied to the personality of a particular flesh and blood leader.

« Motherland » cannot be imagined without Yulia Vladimirovna. « European solidarity » – without Petro Alekseevich. About the « servant of the people » without Vladimir Alexandrovich it is aware of even stutter.

At the same time, the population has repeatedly demonstrated a willingness to unite around a bright leader-Mesia for the sake of a better future. 73% of the vote received by Vladimir Zelensky in the second round of the 2019 presidential election still remain in hearing. Although it should not be forgotten that 2014-after the Russian annexation of Crimea and the beginning of the war in the Donbass-then Messiah Petro Poroshenko gained 55% of the vote in the first round.

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The traditional problem of domestic leaders was not to win mass popular support, but to preserve it. But from this point of view, Volodymyr Zelenskyy was much more successful than his predecessors. In the fourth year of a full -scale war – and in the sixth unplanned year of the presidency – the current head of state keeps a fairly high Trust rating. And the president helps the spirit of time.

The current world reality can not but push millions of Ukrainians to believe that the wedge is knocked out. That another’s fist is not opposed to the fifth, but their own fist.

In order to survive in the world inhabited by warlike leaders, the country needs to be consolidated around its willful leader.

In order not to get lost in the world where the tone of the leaders, the country should be associated with a bright, charismatic and recognizable personality.

In order to survive in a world where strangers set their rules, the country needs a leader who is ready to play under new rules: not tight old -fashioned traditions, free from stereotypes and is able to make bold and non -standard solutions.

It is likely that this will be the argumentation of the ruling team, if the election will be held in Ukraine in the near future, and Volodymyr Zelenskyy will go for the second term.

Presidential PRs will be able to remind the voter that Vladimir Alexandrovich is one of the most striking leaders of the present, and this will be pure truth.

Pro -government propagandists will be able to emphasize that Zelensky has already proven their ability in the new crazy world, and his hypothetical successor will have to master this science from a pure sheet.

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Bankova agitators will be able to emphasize that the domestic Zelenskyy brand is familiar with the entire planet, and any other head of state will need to be spinned almost from scratch, spending precious time and creating unnecessary risks for our country.

And in order to somehow parry this evidence, the Ukrainian opposition will have to try a lot.

Mikhail Dubinyansky