Arnold Schwarzenegger Recalls Nazi Father in Anti-War Message to Russia
variety.comSasha Urban editorArnold Schwarzenegger released a nine-minute video Thursday addressed to the people of Russia, urging the government to end the war in Ukraine and denouncing state propaganda.“I know that your government has told you this is a war to denazify Ukraine,” the actor and former California governor said. “Denazify Ukraine?
This is not true. Ukraine is a country with a Jewish president. A Jewish president, I might add, whose father’s three bothers were all murdered by the Nazis.”He continued, “You see, Ukraine did not start this war.
Neither did nationalists or Nazis. Those in power in the Kremlin started this war.”In a rare move for Schwarzenegger, he openly spoke about his father, Gustav Schwarzenegger, who was a Nazi.
He discussed the lies his father was told by his own government, as well as the effects it had on him later in his life, before his death in 1972. “When my father arrived in Leningrad, he was all pumped up on the lies of his government,” Schwarzenegger said. “And when he left Leningrad, he was broken, physically and mentally.
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