In this ep Evgenia and I interview Anna/Аня, a fellow member of California’s Soviet immigrant community. We talk about why her parents left Leningrad and Baku, what it was like to grow up immersed in schizoid Soviet immigrant culture, and why she ultimately turned against Zionism and much of the politics of that world.

Check it out, and follow Anna/Аня on Twitter at @bademjanbitch.

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Check out our previous episodes: 

* Episode #12: “I didn’t want to live in a simulacrum of American life in the ruins of the Soviet Union”

* Episode #11: Watching American movies in the USSR ft. Boris Levine

* Episode #10: Anti-Soviet identities in the USSR

* Episode #9: The End

* Episode #8: Breeders

* Episode #7: Adam Curtis, get out of my head

* Episode #6: Navalny, the Kremlin, and the curse of neoliberalism

* Episode #5: The Serf aka Холоп

* Episode #4: Palestine and Soviet Jews

* Episode #3: Eduard Limonov and Natalia Medvedeva w/Thierry Marignac

* Episode #2: All the Sad Soviet Immigrant Lit

* Episode #1: Russians Against Politics

* Episode #0: The Ukrainian-Canadian left & Chrystia Freeland's Nazi grandpa

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