Volodymyr Zelensky recalls his Jewish heritage on Lex Fridman’s podcast

By Free Republic | Created at 2025-01-06 16:02:35 | Updated at 2025-01-09 16:11:20 3 days ago

Volodymyr Zelensky recalls his Jewish heritage on Lex Fridman’s podcast
Jewish Insider ^ | 1/6/2025 | Tamara Zieve

Posted on 01/06/2025 7:50:38 AM PST by marcusmaximus

In an interview with podcaster Lex Fridman published on Sunday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky spoke of his family who perished in the Holocaust and his grandfather, Semyon Ivanovich Zelensky, the sole survivor in his family, who fought in the Red Army against the Nazis in World War II.

“My grandfather, he graduated from the military academy, and from the very beginning of the war, he went to fight. He was in the infantry and he fought through the entire war. He had many wounds, as they used to say back then, ‘His chest is covered in medals,’ and it’s true,” Zelensky told Fridman during their discussion, which also covered the Russia-Ukraine war, President-elect Donald Trump’s upcoming inauguration and prospects for peace between Russia and Ukraine.

“He didn’t like to tell details about the war. He never boasted, although I asked him as a boy would, ‘How many fascists did you kill?’ He never talked about it,” Zelensky continued. “He believed that the war was a great tragedy — a tragedy for everyone. And Ukraine was occupied, and it was a tragedy for Ukraine, a tragedy for Europe, and a tragedy for the Jewish people.”

“His own brothers, his entire family were executed. They were tortured by fascists who had occupied Ukraine and their village. His father was the head of the village and he was killed. They were shot. It was a mass … A mass grave, right? Yes. It was a communal burial,” Zelensky said. “Some of them were killed outright and others, they were buried alive. His four brothers, they all went to war. As soon as the war began, they were all there. He was the only one who had a military education, and they all died in the war.

(Excerpt) Read more at jewishinsider.com ...

TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: lexfridman; ukraine; zelensky

Hey! FReepers!
Help Fill The Tank!
How About It? Huh?
It Ain't Askin' Too Much
Ya Know....

Click here: to donate by Credit Card

Or here: to donate by PayPal

Or by mail to: Free Republic, LLC - PO Box 9771 - Fresno, CA 93794

Thank you very much and God bless you.

To: marcusmaximus

I think you should bundle all 10,000 of your Ukranian posts, print them out as a Manifesto, and offer it up as a tribute to Neocon insanity. Not one of your positions has been proven to be accurate, and not one position puts America First.

2 posted on 01/06/2025 7:55:40 AM PST by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )

To: marcusmaximus

Yet pro nazi military u its exists in the Ukraine to this day. Interesting.

3 posted on 01/06/2025 7:56:22 AM PST by GrumpyOldGuy

To: marcusmaximus

Maybe he should come out as transgendered next

He’s got it in his resume

There’s some US woke deep-state boxes he hasn’t quite tried to check yet.

4 posted on 01/06/2025 7:58:25 AM PST by PGR88

To: marcusmaximus

When some Westerners objected to having the US fund Zelensky’s Azov NeoNazis, Zelensky incorporated the nazis into the Ukrainian National Guard. Gotta keep that money comin’ in!

Zelensky is a liar who has betrayed Ukrainian citizens just like he betrayed his Jewish heritage.

5 posted on 01/06/2025 8:00:29 AM PST by ransomnote (IN GOD WE TRUST)

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Read Entire Article