The Servant of the People in Ukraine: Zelensky's too (?) realistic political anti-corruption series to watch urgently!

[Christophe]

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[Christophe]

Aye I finished the 23 episodes of S1 it's really nice but it ends in fishtail not possible...

Can we have the S2 please the producers?

Or is it not "showable" to Western Europe at the moment?

[Macro]

Last Sunday I transported a guy in my taxi who looked like him like 2 drops of water... Without the bulletproof vest

[Christophe]

Season 2 and 3 are available on Arte since today...

[Christophe]

I put it here:

[Remundo]

I traveled in 2017 to Sumy Oblast, passing through kyiv.

Without being a specialist in the Ukrainian economy, I strongly felt these inequalities and this corruption.

There was, for example, in kyiv a "special wealthy" district where families built house-buildings that they lived in, that does not exist in France.

In kyiv the majority of the population lived on, including higher intellectual professions (like doctors, teachers etc...).

I had taken a taxi in kyiv, the guy was almost out of gas, I advanced him his payment to put 10L in a used BMW full of uncorrected electrical faults... but the guy was nice.

Then I rented a car and then I went to the countryside. This too was instructive. The lands are the property of a small agricultural oligarchy which exploits them. For this it uses low-paid agricultural workers, who drive huge western technology machines (eg John Deere, Claas, Massey Ferguson etc...).

In these towns and villages in the countryside, the majority of people also make a living. The lifestyle is closer to France at the exit of WW2. Very few cars, food self-sufficiency (garden), simple life, system D. The most resourceful men hold several jobs (factory worker, black craftsman, drivers, etc.).

A legacy of Sovietism, however, each house has a plot of land to grow vegetables and even have a few animals.

To get around, I had rented a small white city car, nothing at all, but you had to see when I passed through a village, it's as if I had had a Ferrari in France. I did a lot of them a favor by lugging them around a bit with their groceries that they dragged daily, sometimes for several km, in a bag or a shopping bag on wheels.

A significant part of the countryside settles along the roads and streets, to sell food trinkets for a few grivnia (the local equivalent of the Rouble, around one ct€), sometimes sitting on the ground.

But paradoxically, people lived with a certain gaiety and friendliness. And simplicity. Very little crime, at the time the country was serene and calm.

They spoke a mixture of Russian and Ukrainian, indifferently, Ukrainian is distinguished from Russian by a few words or variants of grammatical rules. But hardly anyone wanted to go to war, that's for sure. Everyone went about their business, which was basically to fill the bowl and prepare fuel for the winter, to arrange the house a little too.

I'm telling you about what I saw in 2017.