30. Refusenik Story. (w/Ariel Cohen. Part 1)

Ariel Cohen is a political analyst and strategist, writer, and commentator. He is a Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council Eurasia Center, he is also a Senior Fellow at the International Tax and Investment Center (ITIC). Dr. Cohen consults for Fortune 500 companies and international law firms. You’ve seen him on CNN, NBC, CBS, FOX, C-SPAN, and BBC, you’ve heard him on the radio, you’ve read his columns in Forbes and other publications. He is a leading expert on Eastern Europe and the Middle East and the author of the book Russian Imperialism: Development and Crisis - that you can find on Amazon.

We talk about how he and his family escaped the Soviet Union, what it was like being refuseniks in USSR, and what it was like being an immigrant scholar of the Soviet Union in the US. 

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