Editing Zbigniew Brzezinski (section)

==Early years==
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Zbigniew Brzezinski was born in [[Warsaw]], Poland, on March 28, 1928<ref name=NYTobit /> into a Roman Catholic<ref name=GUAob>{{cite news |title=Zbigniew Brzezinski obituary |url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/28/zbigniew-brzezinski-obituary |access-date=26 March 2022 |work=The Guardian |date=28 May 2017}}</ref> family originally from [[Berezhany|Brzeżany]], [[Tarnopol Voivodeship]] (then part of Poland, currently in Ukraine). The town of Brzeżany is thought to be the source of the family name. Brzezinski's parents were Leonia (''née'' Roman) Brzezińska and [[Tadeusz Brzeziński]], a Polish diplomat who was posted to Germany from 1931 to 1935; Zbigniew Brzezinski thus spent some of his earliest years witnessing the rise of the [[Nazis]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://apnews.com/84b996f2e4a3f5e8ad52fffd5e8591b3 |title=Tadeusz Brzezinski, Former Polish Consul-General, Dies|website=[[Associated Press]] |access-date=May 25, 2016}}</ref> From 1936 to 1938, Tadeusz Brzeziński was posted to the [[Soviet Union]] during [[Joseph Stalin]]'s [[Great Purge]],<ref>Gati (2013) p. 237</ref> and was later praised by [[Israel]] for his work helping Jews escape from the Nazis.<ref name=WashPoObit>{{cite news|last1=Hoagland|first1=Jim|title=Zbigniew Brzezinski, foreign policy intellectual who served as Carter's national security adviser, dies at 89|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/zbigniew-brzezinski-foreign-policy-intellectual-who-served-as-carters-national-security-adviser-dies-at-89/2017/05/26/84cf5d5c-3f42-11e7-adba-394ee67a7582_story.html|access-date=May 27, 2017|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|date=May 26, 2017}}</ref>

In 1938, Tadeusz Brzeziński was posted to [[Montreal]] as a consul general.<ref name=WashPoObit /> The Brzezinski family lived near the Polish Consulate-General, on [[Stanley Street (Montreal)|Stanley Street]].<ref>{{cite web |title=USA: Zbigniew Brzeziński nie żyje |url=https://poland.us/strona,9,293,0,usa-zbigniew-brzezinski-nie-zyje.html |website=poland.us |access-date=July 1, 2021 |language=Polish |date=May 26, 2017}}</ref> In 1939, the [[Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact]] was agreed to by [[Nazi Germany]] and the Soviet Union; subsequently the two powers [[Invasion of Poland|invaded Poland]]. The 1945 [[Yalta Conference]] among the [[Allies of World War II|Allies]] allotted Poland to the Soviet sphere of influence. The [[Second World War]] had a profound effect on Brzezinski, who stated in an interview: "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."<ref>{{YouTube|03ApSE6mgHE|Al Jazeera: One on One – Zbigniew Brzezinski}}</ref>