In a new interview with the Atlantic, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that Russian President Vladimir Putin was afraid of humor because it was an effective tool for spreading truth.
He said that checkers were allowed to tell the truth in ancient kingdoms, but Putin was afraid of it.
Complex mechanisms are hard for humans to comprehend. Zelenskyy said that comedy is a powerful weapon and that it is easy through humor.
Zelenskyy is a former TV star and comedian.
He said that without a sense of humor, surgeons wouldn't be able to perform surgeries to save lives.
In order to fight Russian propaganda, Ukraine has turned to comedy as a means of ridicule. Ukrainians have turned to humor to cope with the difficulties of living through a war.
Olexander Lisenko, a resident of Kyiv, told Al Jazeera last month that humor is an "outlet for releasing excessive aggression so that we are not engulfed in fear."
Zelenskyy said in an interview with the Atlantic that for Ukraine to have a secure future, Russians need to be confronted with the facts about what they have done to the country. Russia has been accused of committing war crimes. President Joe Biden used a politically charged term that is rarely used by US presidents in making allegations against other countries.
Russia has denied involvement in atrocities in Ukraine. The Russian government claimed that images of dead civilians in Bucha, Ukraine, were staged or fabricated after troops left the town. The bodies of dead civilians were scattered in the streets weeks before Russian soldiers left.
Zelenskyy described Russians as alcoholics who don't admit that they are alcoholics.
Russia has gone to extraordinary lengths to censor information on the war, and those that protest or speak out risk prison time or worse. Putin's opponents have a history of dying in violent ways. In late March, jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny said that Putin is afraid of the truth and that he has always said that.
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