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Podcast: East Anchorage Book Club with Andrew Gray
Episode: Victor Fischer, growing up in Stalin's Russia
Description: Send us Fan MailVictor Fischer, the last living signer of the Alaska state constitution, was born in Berlin to a Russian mother and an American father in 1924. Today he recounts his childhood growing up in both Germany as Hitler took power and Russia under Josef Stalin. He discusses the atrocities that he experienced firsthand before his dramatic escape to America as a teenager. He covers this period in vivid detail in his remarkable 2012 autobiography, co-written with Charles Wohlforth: To Russia With Love: An Alaskan’s Journey. This interview was recorded via Zoom.Â