Ukrainian Jewish Heritage: Interview Paulina Zelitsky Part 1

A Jewish woman from Odessa worked on a nuclear submarine station in Cuba during the height of The Cold War, shortly before a daring defection from the Soviet Union to Canada. Her name is Paulina Zelitsky, and her two-volume true life memoir reads like a John le Carré spy thriller.In Part 1 of this two-part interview, Paulina describes the dangers she faced and the indignities she endured as a Jewish girl growing up in the Soviet Union, then later working on a Soviet naval base in Cuba and accidentally becoming privy to the political intrigues of the little-known Second Cuban Missile Crisis.In Part 2 Paulina will tell us about her harrowing defection, the circumstances that led to it, and why she believes that we are now facing a third, and much more dangerous, Cuban Missile Crisis.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.