Advisor to President Carter died at the age of 89 years

Advisor to President Carter died at the age of 89 years

Zbigniew Brzezinski, adviser to US President Jimmy Carter for national security, died on the 26th may 2017 at the age of 89 years in a hospital bed in hospital Inova Fairfax (falls Church, VA). About it on the social networks told his daughter, Mika Brzezinski. In her post she called it «the most inspiring, loving and devoted father».

Zbigniew Brzezinski was born in the family of a Polish diplomat in Warsaw, then immigrated with his family to Canada. After graduation, he taught at Columbia University and then headed the newly established Institute for communism.

He proved himself during the election campaign, 1976 Jimmy Carter, then became his adviser on national security and held this post until 1981.

Zbigniew Brzezinski has long been considered one of the top experts on politics in Eastern Europe. It is also called the ideological enemy of communism and the Soviet Union. Thus, the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, he commented as follows: «like so many empires that existed, the Soviet Union eventually implode and come apart, a victim not so much a direct military defeat, how much of the process of disintegration, accelerated by the economic and social problems.»

Until recently he was an Advisor and a Board member of the Advisory Board of the Center for strategic and international studies and at the same time a leading Professor of international relations at the School of advanced international studies Paul Nitze at the Johns Hopkins University in Washington.

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