Free Becoming American: Why Immigration Is Good for Our Nation's Future by Fariborz Ghadar

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    How Did He Get Here: Zbigniew Brzezinski
    A few decades before Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski was born, at the turn of the twentieth century, thousands upon thousands of Poles left Poland. Many headed for America because of imperial repression, land shortages, and chronic unemployment. Many of the immigrants were known as za chlebem (“for-bread”) immigrants because they did not intend to stay abroad and only hoped to make some money before returning to the land they knew and loved. Nonetheless, many ended up staying in America but remained faithful to their Polish language and culture. The Library of Congress estimates that by the 1920s, more than two million Poles had immigrated to the United States. 1
    A decade after the end of World War I, Zbigniew Brzezinski was born in 1928 in Warsaw, Poland. His father was a diplomat posted to Germany from 1931 to 1935 and then to the Soviet Union from 1936 to 1938. Brzezinski thus spent some of his earliest years witnessing the rise of the Nazis as well as Stalin’s Great Purge.
    The family moved to Canada in 1938, the result of a new diplomatic posting. In the meantime, Poland was invaded by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, with the eventual allocation of Poland to the Soviet Union by the Allies in 1945. With this decision, the family could not safely return to their home country, and so they decided to remain in Montreal, Canada.
    The Second World War had a profound effect on Dr. Brzezinski. In fact, in an interview, he said, “The extraordinary violence that was perpetrated against Poland did affect my perception of the world and made me much more sensitive to the fact that a great deal of world politics is a fundamental struggle.” 2
    Dr. Brzezinski obtained his master’s degree from McGill University in 1950, with a thesis focusing on the