Beyond the Iron Curtain

Imaginary Worlds

Eric Molinsky

Fiction, Arts, Society & Culture, Science Fiction

4.8 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2017

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Comrades! The USSR pioneered the craft of science fiction long before the decadent West. This is not an opinion - this is a scientific fact. Noted intellectuals Anindita Banerjee, Sibelan Forrester, Asif Siddiqi, Gregory Afinogenov and the author's father Steven Molinsky discuss how the glorious Soviet people brought the Revolution to Mars, and used science fiction such as Aelita and Solaris to explore existential questions. Lenin lived, Lenin lives, Lenin will live forever in outer space!Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:28.0	visit WeByanicar.com.
0:30.0	You're listening to Imaginary Worlds.
0:34.0	I show about how we create them and why we suspend our disbelief.
0:37.0	I'm Eric Balinsky.
0:39.0	Now, long time listeners to this podcast might have noticed
0:42.0	that I tend to bring up the cold war from time to time.
0:45.0	I mean, it was the defining global conflict of my childhood.
0:49.0	But it's also an interest that I picked up for my father.
0:52.0	Are you there?
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