Vladimir Vladimirovich Pozner (Russian: Ð'Ð»Ð°Ð´Ð¸Ì Ð¼Ð¸Ñ€
Ð'Ð»Ð°Ð´Ð¸Ì Ð¼Ð¸Ñ€Ð¾Ð²Ð¸Ñ‡ ÐŸÐ¾Ì Ð·Ð½ÐµÑ€; born 1 April 1934) is a
French-born Russian-American journalist and broadcaster best known in
the West for his television appearances representing and explaining
the views of the Soviet Union during the Cold War. He was memorable as
a spokesman for the Soviets in part because he grew up in the United
States and speaks fluent English, Russian and French.Vladimir Pozner
was born in Paris on 1 April 1934, to a Russian Jewish father,
Vladimir Aleksandrovich Pozner, and a French Catholic mother,
Géraldine Lutten. The couple separated shortly after his birth. When
Vladimir was 3 months old, he and his mother moved to New York City,
where Géraldine's mother and younger sister lived. In the spring of
1939 Pozner's parents reunited and the family returned to Paris,
France.After the outbreak of World War II and the invasion of France
the Pozners fled Paris in the fall of 1940, traveling via Marseille in
the Free Zone, Madrid, Barcelona, and Lisbon, before sailing back to
America. The escape was partially financed by a Jewish family whose
adult daughter traveled with the Pozners disguised as Vladimir's
nanny.Back in New York, Vladimir attended Caroline Pratt's City and
Country School and later Stuyvesant High School in Manhattan. Robert
Hollander, an elementary school friend of Pozner, remembered him most
vividly for "his capacities for, one, having extraordinarily
attractive fantasies and, two, for getting the rest of us to believe
them."
Ð'Ð»Ð°Ð´Ð¸Ì Ð¼Ð¸Ñ€Ð¾Ð²Ð¸Ñ‡ ÐŸÐ¾Ì Ð·Ð½ÐµÑ€; born 1 April 1934) is a
French-born Russian-American journalist and broadcaster best known in
the West for his television appearances representing and explaining
the views of the Soviet Union during the Cold War. He was memorable as
a spokesman for the Soviets in part because he grew up in the United
States and speaks fluent English, Russian and French.Vladimir Pozner
was born in Paris on 1 April 1934, to a Russian Jewish father,
Vladimir Aleksandrovich Pozner, and a French Catholic mother,
Géraldine Lutten. The couple separated shortly after his birth. When
Vladimir was 3 months old, he and his mother moved to New York City,
where Géraldine's mother and younger sister lived. In the spring of
1939 Pozner's parents reunited and the family returned to Paris,
France.After the outbreak of World War II and the invasion of France
the Pozners fled Paris in the fall of 1940, traveling via Marseille in
the Free Zone, Madrid, Barcelona, and Lisbon, before sailing back to
America. The escape was partially financed by a Jewish family whose
adult daughter traveled with the Pozners disguised as Vladimir's
nanny.Back in New York, Vladimir attended Caroline Pratt's City and
Country School and later Stuyvesant High School in Manhattan. Robert
Hollander, an elementary school friend of Pozner, remembered him most
vividly for "his capacities for, one, having extraordinarily
attractive fantasies and, two, for getting the rest of us to believe
them."
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