Here is the FULL EPISODE:

https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/of-russia-a-year-inside-bernie-chats-with/id1552638052?i=1000535453389

Of Russia, A Year Inside - Bernie Chats with "Not So Typical Tourist" Brent Antonson

Take a journey through the early days of post-Soviet Russia as Brent recounts tales of Trains, Travel, Teaching & Torture and his time teaching ESL at a university in Voronezh, Russia!

Take a historical trip to Russia as Bernie Chats with "Not So Typical Tourist" Brent Antonson about his adventures and his 2008 book entitled "Of Russia, A Year Inside" Brent "Brant" Antonson has seen a Russia few foreigners have.

Indeed, few Russians. This young Canadian ventured to Voronezh, eleven hours south of Moscow by train, to spend a year inside a country torn by strife, fresh into a new century, and struggling with the clash between history and future.

Tasked with teaching English to students at one university, and then a second, his story is riddled with romance and deception and punctuated with near disaster and disappointment. Antonson's candour and insights set Russia on the edge of failure and achievement – much like the students, he educated, filled with a dash of hope and a lump of fear.

His wit did as much to get him in trouble as it did to keep him out of it.

Get the Book: https://www.amazon.ca/Russia-Year-Inside-Brant-Antonson/dp/1425180493 Get more Bernie Chats videos at BenrieChats.com

See the video version (slightly shorter): https://youtu.be/p4PLm_IReoI

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