Jewish Journal   December 23, 2012  A Jew and a Zhyd   A
Ukrainian-born American actress Mila Kunis could have become a
real pride of the country and join a beautiful company of other
Hollywood beauties of Ukrainian heritages (listing her namesake
Mila Jovovich, Bond girl Olga Kurylenko and many more). Instead,
she unwittingly became a part of a nationalistic provocation.
It’s not that Ms Kunis is not talented enough to be an example
of a Ukrainian success story in Hollywood. It’s just that some
people strongly believe that a person can only be either
Ukrainian or Jewish. Mila belongs to the second group; hence,
it’s Jewish people who can be proud of her if they wish, but not
Ukrainians.  It all began when Ukrainian far-right Igor
Miroshnychenko posted a Facebook status stating that there is no
reason to be proud of Mila Kunis or to attribute her to Ukraine
since she is not an ethnic Ukrainian, but a Jew. He added that
Kunis is proud of being Jewish, while all her remarks regarding
her childhood in Ukraine a