I'm Brian Lehrer. This is my daily politics podcast from WNYC Studios. It's Tuesday, March 22nd.

For today's podcast, we're going to play some amazing listener stories that came in during my live show this morning.

And, of course, you're always invited to join the live feed from 10 a.m. to noon Eastern Time at WNYC.org.

The call-in was based on the video that Arnold Schwarzenegger released the other day,

addressing Russian soldiers to try to tell them what kinds of war crimes

are really taking place in Ukraine in their name before they have to live with the guilt and shame

that Arnold's father had to live with after he was a soldier in the Nazi army and only later

learned about the things they had done. So we invited callers to say if they or their family members have ever had an experience like that,

and what we got was interesting and moving.

We'll pick this up as I'm setting up the Schwarzenegger video clip.

Why do we frame this as having people in the generations before you who are on the

wrong side of history? Because Arnold Schwarzenegger said this. When my father arrived in

Leningrad, he was all pumped up on the lives of his government. And when he left Leningrad,

he was broken, physically and mentally.

He lived the rest of his life in pain, pain from a broken back, pain from the shrapnel

that always reminded him of this terrible years and pain from the guilt that he felt.

To the Russian soldiers listening to this broadcast, you already know much of the truth that I've been speaking.

You've seen it with your own eyes.

I don't want you to be broken like my father.

I don't want you Russian soldiers to be broken like my father.

See, Arnold Schwarzenegger's father was a soldier for the Nazis.

So Schwarzenegger in his video to the Russian people talked there about how his father had

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