“Inventing Anna” (preview)

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 LevinePS: 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…This is a preview of a full episode that is only available to subscribers. To get the rest, sign up and listen here.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 This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit yasha.substack.com/subscribe