Alexander S. Vindman

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Alexander Semyon Vindman (Олександр Семен Віндман b. 1975) is a Ukranian-American immigrant and Lieutenant Colonel in the United States Army.[1][2]

On October 29, 2019, Vindman gave sworn testimony to the House Intelligence Committee that he gave orders to countermand President Donald Trump's instructions.[3][4]

Background

Vindman grew up in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn NY. Its nickname, Little Odessa stems from the large Russians and Ukrainian enclave that grew big from the 1970s onward.

During the 1970s and 80s through the end of the Cold War was a dense anti-Communist population of which the leading edge was the Ukrainian nationalist Yaroslav Stetsko.[5] After World War II, the Russian anti-communist émigré’s that fought with the Germans against the Soviet Union relocated from the Displaced Person camps to the US. This anti-Communist wave sought to be active in US countermeasures against the Soviet Union alongside the Ukrainian nationalists.

This is a slice of the Russian emigration experience. The Russians kept the important cultural ties but assimilated politically into US democracy. Many did maintain a staunch anti-Communist stance throughout the Cold War which transformed into a strong anti-Putin stance during the years after the wall came down.

For the Ukrainians, almost 50 years of Cold War intrigue kept them bound inside the politics of extreme nationalism. For Soviet émigrés from Ukraine, Little Odessa’s Russian speaking Ukrainian community which developed in the 1970s would be the most comfortable place to live. The anti-Communist tag meant they came from one side of the Bandera experience or the other. Ukrainian anti-Communism is synonymous with Ukrainian nationalism.[6] Your grandparents either fought for the Soviet Army or they fought against them. This means they were a victim of Nazi aggression, or fought with the Nazis.

New York is the headquarters of the Ukrainian Congressional Committee of America (UCCA). If you take part in public Ukrainian cultural life in New York, you rub shoulders with Bandera’s OUNb.

During and after the Cold War, NGOs formed claiming representation in the U.S. Congress for entire Diasporas like the UCCA does for Ukrainian-Americans. Today is no different. Many anti-Putin Russian nationals living in the United States find UCCA better organized for lobbying in Washington, D.C..

See also

References

  1. https://heavy.com/news/2019/10/alexander-vindman/
  2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVvd5MlRYxQ&feature=youtu.be
  3. https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2019/10/31/how-the-army-officer-who-testified-against-trump-could-end-up-in-a-court-martial/
  4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVvd5MlRYxQ&feature=youtu.be
  5. According to Ukrainian nationalist scholar Taraz Kuzio, in 1945, Yaroslav Stetsko was still asking Adolf Hitler for armies to continue the fight on the Eastern front against the Allied Powers of World War II. The OUNb reorganized itself within Ukraine as the Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists (CUN) and registered as a political party in January 1993. Конгресс Українських Націоналістів, Database DATA. Until her death in 2003, CUN was headed by Slava Stetsko, widow of Yaroslav Stetsko.
    https://www.opednews.com/articles/Russian-Hacking-the-Electi-by-George-Eliason-Coup_Euromaidan_Russian-Influence_Ukraine-161219-878.html
    Many OUNb nationalists {"Bandarists") who escaped Stalin captured in German uniform emigrated to the United States and formed the backbone of the Ukrainian Diaspora.
  6. https://thesaker.is/alexander-vindman-why-diaspora-ukrainians-are-driving-sedition/