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On October 29, 2019, Vindman gave sworn testimony to the [[House Intelligence Committee]] that he gave orders to countermand [[President Donald Trump]]'s instructions.
On October 29, 2019, Vindman gave sworn testimony to the [[House Intelligence Committee]] that he gave orders to countermand [[President Donald Trump]]'s instructions.
==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]]. After WWII, the Russian anti-communist émigré’s that fought 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.<ref>https://thesaker.is/alexander-vindman-why-diaspora-ukrainians-are-driving-sedition/</ref> Your grandparents either fought for the [[Soviet Army]] or they fought against them. This means you were a victim of Nazi aggression, fought for [[Nazi]]s, or fought against Nazism.
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 Congress for entire Diasporas like the UCCA does for Ukrainian-Americans. Today is no different.
==See also==
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