Where Lenin fell will majestically stand Mazepa…
-Zelensky
Lenin and Mazepa were both vurdalaks. The Tsar trusted Mazepa deeply, and the latter fucked him over and I don’t understand how he made into the pantheon of Ukrainian heroes. Mazepa did not have any Ukrainian nationalist ambitions and in official documents called his motherland Little Russia. He is a figure comparable to the Biblical Judas or Roman Brutus. (Although I am not too sure about that one, but old Julius was certainly surprised like Tsar Peter).
And Zelensky was also making money off Russia. His shows were played on Russian TV, he stared in a number of Russian films. And like Mazepa he turned on Russia and allied with a Western enemy. Also, Mazepa was a failure, his rebellion failed and most of his Cossacks did not support him. Celebrating treason and betrayal are not qualities to be celebrated.
Insomniac Resurrected 