How Dmitrious Bistrevsky, a Ukrainian refugee who grew up in Spokane, became Darth Vader

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Dmitrious Bistrevsky is the man behind Vader’s foreboding black ensemble in Disney+’s Obi-Wan Kenobi.

They say that the boy who would become Darth Vader grew up a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.

But search your feelings, you know it to be untrue. Pure Imperial propaganda.

In reality, the boy who would become Darth Vader grew up in Spokane in the 1990s. And the winding path to becoming one of the most iconic villains in pop culture history

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