The video of the series ‘The people’s servant’ in which Zelensky receives a call from the European Union

In 2016, Vodolomir Zelensky, the current president of Ukraine, He was the protagonist of a curious series on Netflix: ‘The people’s servant’, in which the president played the role of a high school history teacher who, unexpectedly, becomes the president of Ukraine.

The series would give name to his act political party, with which he managed to rise winner with 73% of the votes in the 2019 presidential elections. But it would also simulate situations that not even Zelensky himself imagined could become a reality.

Now, in the midst of war in the country, many of the scenes that Zelenski recorded as an actor come back to the memory of viewers. This is the case of a chapter in which Vasyl Petrovych Holoborodko (Zelenski) receives a call from Angela Merkel informing him that Ukraine has joined the European Union.

“Thank you very much, all Ukrainians have been waiting for this for a long time,” says the “president” while celebrating the news. However, ‘Merkel’ stops him: “Ukrainians? Sorry, I was calling Montenegro.”

A satire that resurfaces in the middle of the armed conflict and in the face of Zelensky’s demand that Ukraine join the European Union urgently to stop Putin.