Our guest is Suzanne Parry (and on Instagram), and she is the author of a historical fiction novel, The Communist’s Secret, the 2nd of a trilogy centered on events during WW2 around Russia. It might be enough to talk about the history of that time in terms of lessons and implications we can draw for our times about tyrannical governments, oppression, & the necessary self-examination for truly understanding what we are serving and upholding by the actions of our country. That might be enough to make this visit with Suzanne valuable, but, in addition, Suzanne was also an arms control negotiator in the mid-1980's, near the collapse of the Soviet Union. Suzanne's studies at Purdue and Princeton, and also at the Pushkin Russian Language Institute in Moscow, helped equip her in Russian and in Public and International Affairs. As such, The Communist's Secret, draws on deep understanding of both history and the way governments, both US & Russian, still operate today. Suzanne Parry joins us via Zoom, though not from her home bases in Portland OR & Washington, DC.
Past/present religious/spiritual influences: Humanism, Lutheran
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