Russian ultranationalist Vladimir Zhirinovsky admitted something he has denied for years — that his father’s side of the family was Jewish. In an interview with Israel Radio’s Russian-language station, Zhirinovsky said all his father’s family, who were Polish Jews, died during the Holocaust.
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