In this ep Evgenia and I talk about Inventing Anna, the new show that just landed on Netflix based on the story of Anna Sorokin — a young Russian immigrant from Germany who tried scamming her way into New York’s global elite a few years back.

—Yasha Levine

PS: Towards the end of the show we mention Mark Ames’ great piece about the tragic story of a different ambitious Anna — an Anna Loginova — who tried making it in Moscow…

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Catch up on some old eps:

* China's Olympic Menace and Immigrant Deprogramming with Carl Zha

* “Navalny,” the documentary

* The Ayahuasca Special

* Christmas Special: Ghost of Epstein

* St. Paul of Amsterdam

* Immigrant Deprogramming with Nika Dubrovsky

* Imaginary Futures with Richard Barbrook

* Behind the Silicon Curtain

* The Soviet Jew & good riddance Los Feliz

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

* Watching American movies in the USSR ft. Boris Levine

* Anti-Soviet identities in the USSR

* The End

* Breeders

* Adam Curtis, get out of my head

* Navalny, the Kremlin, and the curse of neoliberalism

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