I made this episode 2 years ago, when Rafah was being invaded, and before the student encampments were crushed. It's not 2 hours long, I was just too impatient to figure out how to edit out the hour of silence at the end. Or maybe that needs to be there.

What's it like to be a teenager during a communist revolution? I dive into Pearl Buck's account of my grandmothers life "Talk About Russia With Masha Scott". Pear Buck interviewed my grandmother in the early 40's and published the book in 1945 when my grandmother was just 34 years old and still very much a believer in the Soviet system.

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