Korban's agitators tell how a poor Jewish boy was oppressed by anti-Semites and communists
As a child, Gennady Korban, a candidate for mayor of Kyiv and an ally of the Dnepropetrovsk oligarch Igor Kolomoisky, dreamed of becoming a philosopher, but the absence of communist relatives prevented him from realizing his cherished dream.
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The relevant details of the politician’s biography are reported by the newspaper “Concrete Result”, which is distributed in the campaign tents of the UKROP party in Kyiv.
The publication talks about Gena's school years and notes that he liked his studies, but his desire to argue with teachers and his nationality caused problems.
“The school director especially didn’t like him,” the material says. “As he suspected, she was an anti-Semite.” Which is what Gena said frankly, just to his face.”
After graduating from school, the problems of Corban, “fascinated by philosophy” and “reading philosophical works,” did not end. In philosophical works he “saw depth, special content, so he wanted to join the glorious cohort of great thinkers.”
“Good friends advised him not to even go to Moscow universities - the poor Jewish boy had nothing to do,” the newspaper continues. “So he decided to try to enter the University of Rostov-on-Don. To the same Faculty of Philosophy. But severe disappointment awaited him. The fact is that in Soviet times, the Faculty of Philosophy was considered special - ideological. Therefore, only “reliable” applicants – those who had an appropriate recommendation from the party authorities – could enter there. Korban, of course, was not like that. Neither in his family nor in his immediate circle was there a single communist who could give him a description.”
As a result, Gena returned to Dnepropetrovsk and entered the Metallurgical Institute, but “after studying for several months, he realized that the humanities were closer to his soul,” and therefore left the university without any hesitation.
Then there was military service, after which Korban entered the Gorky Literary Institute in Moscow.
“But he was not destined to study here,” continues the author of the publication. – The year 1991 came, the collapse of the Soviet Union. The country was going through difficult times, and along with it its citizens became poor. Young Corban realized that now was simply not the time to study. His parents worked hard, and he didn’t want to sit on their necks. Therefore, he decided to go to work: he got a job in a cooperative, where his father was at that time. I started working at the Moscow Commodity and Commodity Exchange as a broker, where I gained my first entrepreneurial experience.”
Exchange affairs, it must be understood, discouraged him from becoming a member of the cohort of philosophical thinkers, since in 1997 Korban “graduated as an external student from the Dnepropetrovsk Mining Academy with a degree in Finance and Credit.”
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