The Soviet Jew: A Weaponized Immigrant’s Tale

A serialized book by Yasha Levine

The family visiting the Vatican on a day trip from our refugee camp, 1989.

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Announcement

1. Gonna serialize a book about Soviet Jews and my family's weaponized immigrant story

Chapter One: Why?

1. Victims of Communism

2. The Personal is Political

3. An immigrant living through American decline

Chapter Two: Ancestors

1. The Old Country

2. Lev Trotsky and the forgotten Jews

3. Fixing the czar’s carriage

4. A boy from Belarus

5. My Ukrainian grandma and our lost history of pogroms

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Notes and various bits and pieces:

• Moving out

• A few victims

• The Soviet Union and the Great Industrial God

• Outer Richmond Life

• From Russian revolutionary to CIA agent in one generation

• Farting on Lenin…and some notes on nationalism in the Soviet Union

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• Operation: Save the Jews

• Court Russians and Soviet Emigres

• Russiagate: A coming of age moment for Soviet immigrants

• Weaponizing Fascism for Democracy

• Weaponized Immigrants and the History of America's Imperial Propaganda Machine

• Part One: portrait of a Soviet CIA propagandist as a Nazi collaborator young

• Part Two: Radio Liberation from Bolshevism

• Part Three: The schizoid world of a Soviet anti-communist propagandist.”

• Rare 1960s propaganda film about the CIA's “Radio Liberation”

• Georgetown's Russian language program was run by a weaponized Russian fascist immigrant group

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So I’m finally rebooting this book after months of inactivity. Turns out I needed time, sleep, and some personal space to do this kind of work — and those are precisely the things I haven’t had have since my daughter showed up and we got booted out of our place in Los Angeles and went on the road. Now that we’re a bit settled in San Francisco and getting some help from grandma, I think I can start to write again and get deep into the this thing. So keep a look out for an update in the next week or so.

Since this book is only gonna grow and grow and get more chaotic, I figure it needs a permanent table of contents. So this is what this page is gonna to be — that, and a place where I can keep some of more disorganized notes and thoughts and earlier writings on the topic of weaponized immigrants. So bookmark it for future reading.

Have a great New Year’s Eve. See you in 2022.

—Yasha Levine

December 31, 2021

The cover

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