Zelenskyy is the Reagan of Ukraine
The Ronald Reagan Freedom Award won’t do much against a Russian tank.
But when Zelenskyy officially gets his honor on Monday for his "courageous fight against tyranny" it might lift his spirits a little.
It’s a fitting award to give to Zelenskyy for standing up to the Russians.
It's been given in the past to the likes of Mikhail Gorbachev, Margaret Thatcher, Colin Powell, Poland’s Lech Walesa and a fellow comedian/actor, Bob Hope, aka, America’s ambassador of "Goodwill.”
The award represents the values and principles of freedom that Ronald Reagan fought for all his life and is considered the "highest civilian honor" bestowed by the Reagan foundation.
In a way, what Zelenskyy's doing reminds me of what my father did on a much smaller scale in Hollywood in the late 1940s.
My father, then a liberal Democrat, was in his first presidency – as president of the Screen Actors Guild (SAG).
It was a violent time when the Communist Party was trying to take control of the movie industry’s unions.
The unions were fighting each other and strikebreakers outside studio gates and the movie moguls were hiring gangsters to intimidate and undermine the unions.
Working to keep SAG and other Hollywood unions free of communist influence, my father was not afraid to fight for what he thought was right – and do it publicly.
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