Vladimir Zhirinovsky kneeling beside the grave of his father in the Holon cemetary this week. If I have a grandson, I will name him Wolf.
Posted on 06/30/2006 12:13:34 PM PDT by lizol
The Jewish side of the family
By Yossi Melman
It looks like an everyday scene in a cemetery. A man who is no longer young stands, mute and weeping, at his father's grave. This particular scene, however, was fraught with historic irony. The son is Vladimir Zhirinovsky, the deputy speaker of the Russian State Duma (the lower house of the Russian parliament) and the leader of the Liberal Democratic Party, the third largest in the country. Zhirinovsky, an anti-Semitic nationalist, who has expressed esteem for Hitler, proposed that Russia offer asylum to Yasser Arafat and supported Saddam Hussein, found his father's grave in the Holon cemetery, outside Tel Aviv. Zhirinovskys quest for his roots- in the past he had denied that he had Jewish origins- ended, of all places in the world, in Israel.
"For 60 years I have been looking for my father," he said on Sunday of this week, as we stood in Row 18, Bloc 27, Area 6 of the cemetery. It was midday and the sun was brutal. Zhirinovsky pulls a handkerchief from his pocket and wipes away the beads of perspiration on his forehead. He is wearing a cap, though this one is cream colored and not the black that has become his trademark. "Sixty years I looked for him all over the world- and now I have found him."
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Vladimir Zhirinovsky kneeling beside the grave of his father in the Holon cemetary this week. If I have a grandson, I will name him Wolf.
Some people spend their whole lives running from themselves. Until they, finally, stop running.
I'm obviously not a fan of Zhirinovsky's, but its a touching story. You can't help but think something is at work inside of the man.
This is the most touching thing posted all day. Hope Vladimir wins the presidency in Russia. It could mean serious changes in russian Foriegn policy.
He is a lunatic. His clown behavior may be a shtick, but it happened so many times, that I think its what he is. The fact that so many people vote for him and his party is unsettling. I better be wrong, but I would not trust him with his conversion into a grieving son and friend of Israel.
This is an amazing story, but it would take much more action on his part to believe him as a sane person.
I agree with you.
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