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Podcast: People In The Know
Episode: ”Russia: A Kansan’s Perspective” 1986 Revisited
Description: Jeffrey Hardeman and I were part of a U.S. delegation of reporters and farmers who were allowed into the USSR in the last years of the cold war. We produced a TV documentary that is a glimpse of how it was at that time.
It was also the era of Glasnost and Perestroika. An era defined as "openness and reform". The last Soviet Premiere, Mikhail Gorbachev, was showing willingness to ease up on the people under his control. We were, however, handled and watched closely.
We were also in Ukraine, a country with immense natur...