Borscht - how it foreshadowed the Ukrainian War
The Ukrainian War - a humorous food fight no more.
The politics of borscht are also complex. The soup is the national dish of Ukraine — which adds some culinary geopolitical irony to the Sochi Olympics, Bremzen says.
"[At] the Russian Olympic Games, which are the pet project of Vladimir Putin, they're serving all these gallons and gallons of borscht," she says. "Whereas in the Ukraine ... as part of an anti-Moscow, anti-Putin protest, they were also serving borscht, affirming that it's Ukraine's national dish."
Yes, this is the land of Fiddler on a Roof and very near the root origin of the modern origin of 'stand-up comedy' - Badchen.
On to the borscht belt... ...and Mel Brooks...
2. Ha, Volodymyr Zelenkyy - was the creator and lead actor in a TV political satire comedy Servant of the People about a high school history teacher 'activist' who later becomes president. With the same name as Vladimir Putin, he ended up in a war against Russia who accused Ukraine of being anti-Semitic. Only because Volodymyr refused to accept America's safe escape did Russia end up in the quagmire (wet bog - war soup) it faces today?