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I don't think I need to explain Mount Rushmore to anyone reading this. It has the best of the best Presidents of the US.

I think Ukraine has some interesting and amazing historical figures. Volodymyr the Great, Yaroslav the Wise, and Ivan Mazepa deserve their place on a Ukrainian Mount Rushmore.

In many countries, hating the capital is like a national sport. French hate Paris, Germans hate Berlin, ruzzians hate Moscow (who doesn’t). What do Ukrainians think of their capital?

Every place has a city or region that is either disliked or outright avoided by the population.

In the US it would be the Rust Belt, the prime example for a city being Detroit. The UK has England's north and Birmingham. Here in Germany, the Ruhr region is getting a bad rep, Gemsenkirchen being one of the most deprived cities in the country.

Does Ukraine have anything similar? Are there cities and regions with a bad vibe?

The 2019 election was won in a landslide by Ze and Poroshenko only performed well in Lviv. I’d summarize his loss by saying that Ukrainians felt like not enough was done in all sectors of politics (the Donbas War was ongoing, all the occupied territories were still occupied, the economy was only slowly recovering, corruption still existed, pro-Russian politicians were still in Parliament).

But once Zelenskyy came to power, some believed that he was too naive in dealing with Russia, some going as far as to suggest that he was a Russian puppet. I know personally that he was combative towards journalists, I also remember that back in late-2021 he claimed that a coup was planned against him and I also remember him playing down invasion fears.

Poroshenko, despite his loss, did a lot of good for Ukraine. He began modernizing the army, promoted the Ukrainian language and the UOC. But as I do not live in Ukraine, I cannot accurately judge how his presidency really was. So, did you or did you not consider him to be a better leader pre-2022?

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