Vlad Barbalat
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 23 Jun
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That looked like being called out in school.
I was a nine-year-old kid and I still have memories of that.
My parents experienced that in much more stark ways where as a Jew, you were not allowed to pursue certain professions or there would be hard quotas on how many people would be allowed to be in those professions.
You would be assigned where you live.
There'd be university quotas and so on and so on.
I didn't experience obviously those things, but I experienced
a society where that was normal.
Jews were persecuted.
Many other types of groups were persecuted.
The point is that was normal behavior.
It was overt, explicit persecution, bullying.
All those things were part of the social fabric.
So when you're born into that, you are consumed by this notion of this is my reality.
How do I navigate it and survive?
Never mind iterating on innovation.
I'm just trying to survive.
My experience is at the same time, I was a reasonably happy kid because when you accept those things as part of your life, you don't dwell on them.
You don't think of yourself as a victim.
You just accept them as they are and you form the rest of your life around them as constants.
I have both kid happy memories as well as some of those stark moments
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