“Inventing Anna” (preview)

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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