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 1997’s Pizza Hut commerical.
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