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Alexander Vindman

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  1. “I think in a lot of ways, and it's a different experience than my older brother who's seven years older who had a chance to know her, we didn't get a chance to know her. And we were relationship with our father is that much stronger because he had been a central figure in our life. We didn't have both a mother and a father in those early formative years. Our father has always been, my father remarried, my stepmother is a terrific, wonderful woman. But I think in certain ways our dad's been kind of a central figure, very loving, doting, and stuff like that, affectionate, even though he's a tough guy to everybody else. He's been very close and instrumental in giving us, I guess our first dose of character and work ethic and determination. And we recognize him for that. We love him and recognize him.”

    2021-09-02 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 458 — Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  2. “I think there were two, probably two key factors. One was the fact that my mother, biological mother, was dying of cancer, and he had learned of Raza Shah being treated in the United States for his lymphoma, his cancer. And he thought that there was a reasonable chance of making it over to the United States and saving my mother, saving his wife. So that was one of the driving forces”

    2021-09-02 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 458 — Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  3. “But he ended up fleeing to the Ural Mountains. Russia is a massive piece of territory thousands of miles away from the front and surviving the war there and then being part of that rebuilding process that the Soviet Union undertook in the post-war period with entire western portions of the country completely decimated and building from scratch. And he built a life for himself. He didn't leave until he was 47 and we were toddlers at that point bringing us to the United States. So he had restarted his life multiple times. I think that's part of my legacy. And I think that's something that stayed with me in my recognition that if I couldn't do what I wanted to, if I didn't have the same opportunities in the military, it was totally fine for me to start over.”

    2021-09-02 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 458 — Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  4. “It's pretty amazing. It's to me, it is something that is hard to understand. Growing up in the States and not having to face those kinds of challenges, we see it with the Afghan refugees coming into the country now. They have a whole different coming to the United States experience or different context for what difficulties are really like. We don't get to experience that as Americans. My father was born in 1932. He was a very young man when the Second World War started. His father was killed in action, but not before he was able to warn my grandmother, my dad's mom, that the Nazis were coming time to flee Kiev. And if he had not made that warning, it's possible. That my family, I would have never visited. My family could have been one of those 30, nearly more than 33,000 Jews that were killed in the Bobinyar massacre.”

    2021-09-02 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 458 — Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  5. “So it is amazing how many people I've run across with either recent or deep roots in that part of the world. I think one thing that we all kind of shared in common was a recognition that the same opportunities that we are able to enjoy here were not available there in different ways. I think it seems that with the earlier generations, it was more direct physical threats and harm pogroms and so forth. And then with more recent generations, it was the lack of access to prosperity, lack of equality. In my case, that was a driving force for my father to make sure that we had”

    2021-09-02 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 458 — Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  6. “Thank you for having me on, David. It's an honor. I've watched you from afar for decades and appreciate your work and glad to be on this program with you.”

    2021-09-02 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 458 — Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source