Jun 13, 2021 • 1HR 27M

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

Evgenia Kovda
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Yasha Levine
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A podcast by Yasha Levine and Evgenia Kovda, two Soviet immigrants living through American decline.
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This ep is inspired by Evgenia’s recent essay on her youth and Russia’s deeply colonized culture. But we get into all sorts of related topics — like what else is out there and what’s worth living for, other than this cursed consumerism and materialism that has surrounded us our whole lives.

—Yasha Levine

PS: The photo is from Gorbachev’s embarrassing 19…

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