Photo of Trump's Serb taken in Serbia shocks everyone: It's not montage, and people wonder if this is possible

Photo: Telegraf.rs

Rod Blagojevich, an American of Serbian origin and a former governor of the state of Illinois, recently found himself in the public eye after being pardoned by the newly elected US president, Donald Trump.

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For that reason, Telegraf.rs visited his cousin Nikola in the village of Veliko Krcmare. Nikola, filled with emotion, recalled seeing Rod recently, noting that he calls his cousin Milorad, not Rod.

He also showed us a photo they took then, and one thing caught everyone's eye.

As can be seen in the said photo, the two of them, 25 years since they last saw each other, are standing in the yard of Nikola's family home, smiling and visibly happy about the long-awaited meeting.

Photo: Telegraf.rs

Nevertheless, in the puzzling photo that our portal had the opportunity to capture, one cannot help but notice the youthfulness of the former governor of the US state, even though he will turn 70 next year. But in this photo he looks like a young man!

According to his cousin Nikola, the last meeting with Milorad took place just last summer, and he recalled what he talked about with his well-known cousin after several decades, but also revealed what it was like in Chicago, where he lived for a while.

"I remember visiting all the courtrooms with him. He was a lawyer then and he was defending our people. Since he was going to work, in order for me not to be alone, he would say, 'Come with me,' and I would say, 'Ok'. So I sat there and followed the trials," Nikola told us, adding that they spent their days in legal institutions and that Rod was very dedicated to his work.

The meeting with Rod from the distant America lasted a short time, Nikola tells us, only ten minutes.

"When we met, we didn't even have time to talk, we were alone for maybe ten minutes, so we didn't have time to talk. We went to the church that his brother renovated. His name is Milorad, but there (in the US) they call him Rod. I always call him Milorad. He is forgetting Serbian, he understands everything you say, but there is no one there to talk to in Serbian there," Nikola told us.

Nikola also spoke about Rod's brother Bosko, who currently lives in Tennessee, and stressed his great connection with the Serbian community.

"Bosko is a great Serb. His name is Robert there. He renovated the church, put up a memorial plaque and did a lot for our people. All three of his grandchildren were baptized in the Serbian Orthodox Church," said Nikola.

Nikola then went back to talking about Rod, and told us how, when it comes to his political career, he was destined to be involved in politics and that his father noticed this early.

"He is a born politician, literally. My father said to his father Radisav: 'Well, this kid will be a congressman+," recalls Nikola.

After the meeting, Rod invited Nikola to visit with him in Chicago, and he also revealed for our portal why he didn't stay in the US two decades ago.

"It's completely different there. They live to work, and here you work to survive. People there work hard, but they have money, you can die here, but... When you come from here and you see everything you could have there, but you don't, because you were stupid... But it wasn't even because of that, the wars had already started. I couldn't sit there while my child is getting bombed," Nikola, a relative of the well-known Rod, or rather Milorad, told us.

(Telegraf.rs)