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Podcast: This Day (An America 250 History Show)
Episode: Borat Before Borat (1970) w/ Jill Lepore
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It’s June 15th. This day in 1970, Russian television reporter Valentin Zorin aired an episode of his series “Masters Without Masks.” For decades, Zorin was the primary source by which Russians understood what life in America was like.
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