"In Serbia, he is Milorad": Rod Blagojevich embraced with relatives near Kragujevac, his cousin revealed this

Аfter more than two decades, Nikola Blagojevic and Rod Blagojevich, the former governor of Illinois whom Trump recently pardoned of corruption charges, met in their homeland, in the family home near Kragujevac.

Nikola told Telegraf.rs about his cousin Rod, or Milorad, as he calls him, and about their first embrace after 25 years.

The most recent time they met was the first after more than two decades and took place last summer. They marked it with a photo of them hugging in the yard of their family home.

Blagojevic also revealed what it was like in Chicago, where he lived with Rod 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.

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.

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 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 Telegraf.rs 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," he concluded.

(Telegraf.rs)