We Came Back to Show the Truth About This Russian Invasion
On this bonus episode of the New Abnormal, Kyiv-based film producer Egor Olesov\u2014 an executive producer at FilmUA, one of the largest film studios in Ukraine, where we worked extensively with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy during his acting career \u2014 calls in from Lviv. Olesov\u2014in a conversation also joined by John Wynn, a Vietnamese-American filmmaker who worked with Egor on the film The Rising Hawk, which was shot in Ukraine in 2019 and 2019\u2014tells host Molly Jong-Fast that \u201cWe came back and right now we are doing what we can do as much as possible to support our people, to defend our country and to show to the world the truth about this crazy Russian invasion in Ukraine. It\u2019s like horror dream. It's a really crazy situation. It's a big war in the center of the Europe.\u201d Plus Andrew Rice, New York Magazine Contributing Editor and the author of the Year That Broke America, explains how \u201cI came to the conclusion that the seeds of the future were sewn in 2000 in the election between Bush and Gore (as) all the things that we now see coming to fruition in distressing form in our society were sort of just starting to come into being at that time and in one place, in Florida. which I call the unlikely crucible of the future\u201d \u2014 one where \u201cat the time the recount was going on, the 9/11 pilots were training in Florida, sort of serenely flying above it\u201d\u2014just after Trump ran for the reform party nomination that year in his first presidential campaign and \u201call these stories I sort of brought together in the book tell this sort of ribald, picaresque and ultimately sort of tragic story of how America took a wrong turn.\u201d
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