'''Alexander Semyon Vindman''' ('''Олександр Семен Віндман''' b. 1975) was born in the [[Soviet Union]] and immigrated with his family to the United States after [[President Nixon]] arranged for [[Jewish]] families to escape leftwing anti-Semitism in the [[communist]]-controlled Soviet Union. The Vindman family was featured in a Ken Burns documentary in 1985. Vindman attended [[Harvard]], is fluent in the Russian and Ukrainian languages, and rose to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in the [[United States Army]].<ref>https://heavy.com/news/2019/10/alexander-vindman/</ref> The government of Ukraine offered the position of defense minister to Vindman. | '''Alexander Semyon Vindman''' ('''Олександр Семен Віндман''' b. 1975) was born in the [[Soviet Union]] and immigrated with his family to the United States after [[President Nixon]] arranged for [[Jewish]] families to escape leftwing anti-Semitism in the [[communist]]-controlled Soviet Union. The Vindman family was featured in a Ken Burns documentary in 1985. Vindman attended [[Harvard]], is fluent in the Russian and Ukrainian languages, and rose to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in the [[United States Army]].<ref>https://heavy.com/news/2019/10/alexander-vindman/</ref> The government of Ukraine offered the position of defense minister to Vindman. |