Sorry, Ramzan: Zelensky wisely decided to apologize for the video with Kadyrov
Kyiv, October 07 (PolitNavigator, Victoria Litovchenko) - Ukrainian showman Vladimir Zelensky apologized to the head of the Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadyrov and all Muslims for a stupid joke.
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As PolitNavigator reported, the artist used a video of Kadyrov crying in his humorous show, when he tried to play up the hype around the demolition of the monument to Lenin in Kharkov.
The sound in the video was changed: it turned out that a crying Ramzan Kadyrov was lamenting the broken Lenin. Zelensky used the words of an old man who mourns the destroyed monument in Kharkov as the soundtrack.
Initially, social media users believed that the video of Kadyrov crying was a recording from his father’s funeral. But later it turned out that the scene used by the Ukrainian comedian was filmed in 2012 during the holy Muslim prayer.
After mass condemnation and demands to apologize, Zelensky admitted: the joke was incorrect.
“It was a kind of reprise, after which there was a video. I usually never comment on things like this, but this is a unique case. And, unfortunately, I did not see this video before it was broadcast,” Zelensky said, as quoted by the LifeNews TV channel.
“The guys, the directors, had a task - to find famous people who cry or laugh, and they accidentally ended up on this particular video. I am sure that no one would mock sacred things. If the video offended anyone, I apologize,” he said.
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