The President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky is Time’s Man of the Year 2022
Time 2022, Zelensky is the person of the year 2022: “Courage is contagious”
The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyhe was appointed “person of the year 2022” from the American magazine Time. Zelensky outlasted other candidates including the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, US politician, Liz Cheney and billionaire philanthropist, MacKenzie Scott. The magazine awards the award to the personality deemed to have had the greatest global influence over the past 12 months. The first “person of the year” was in 1927 the American aviator Charles Lindbergh, who was awarded the title after making the first non-stop transatlantic flight from New York to Paris.
“The success of Zelensky as a wartime leader he relied on the fact that courage is contagious. It spread through Ukraine’s political leadership in the first days of the invasion, when everyone realized the president was sticking around. If this seems like a natural thing for a leader to do during a crisis, consider a historical precedent. Just six months earlier, the president of theAfghanistan, Ashraf Ghani, a much more experienced leader than Zelenskyhad fled his capital as the Taliban forces approached”, reads Time. The American magazine points out that there was not much in the biography of Zelensky to “foresee his willingness to stand and fight”.
In fact, the president “had never served in the military. He had only been president since April 2019” and in the past he had been “actor specializing in improvised comedies and producer in the world of cinema”. But just that experience turned out to have the advantages of him. “ Zelensky he was flexible, trained not to lose control under pressure. He could read a crowd and react to his moods and expectations. Now his audience was the world. He was determined not to let him down,” the magazine points out. “The decision to stay at the compound in the face of possible assassination set an example for him, making it more difficult for his underlings to escape.”
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