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Evan Gershkovich (on surviving a Russian prison)
Evan Gershkovich (This Cursed Beautiful Land: A Russian-American Story) is a foreign correspondent and memoirist. Evan joins Armchair Expert to discuss his mother sewing gold earrings into her skirt to get them out of the Soviet Union, why the Soviet spies on The Americans felt more familiar than most Russians he’d seen in Hollywood, and watching teenagers snatch his mom’s friend’s purse on his first day in Russia. Evan and Dax talk about hearing state TV count him as a bargaining chip, taking papers from a source after his editors told him to take nothing, and getting a 16-year sentence just…
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