In 2015, a political comedy television series aired in Ukraine on the 1 + 1 TV channel. The plot was pretty simple. An absent-minded high school history teacher named Vasily Petrovych Goloborodko gets fed up one day. He goes on a profane rant in his classroom about the corruption in the Ukrainian government. A student secretly video tapes the rant and uploads it to YouTube. Almost overnight this unknown history teach goes viral. So viral that his students decide to launch a crowdfunding campaign and register him as a Ukrainian presidential candidate.