An Immigrant's Love Letter to the West

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Of course, the fruit of this was widespread poverty, scarcity, and general inefficiency felt by everyone except a few Russian elites who were in cahoots with the state.

An Immigrant’s Love Letter to the West - John Anderson

Not least the freedom of speech and thought which Kisin had not experienced in the Soviet Union but had at least expected to find in the West.Konstantin gives his insight into the ongoing war in Ukraine, the Russian mindset, the potent myth of fighting Nazis and a little on his forthcoming new book ‘An Immigrant’s Love Letter To The West’.

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He and Foster launched Triggernometry in 2018 as an outlet for free speech and discussion of controversial subjects such as the "culture wars". There are occasional infelicities – such as a habit, which occasionally “triggers” me, of explaining that which either shouldn’t be explained or shouldn’t be cited. For many in the alternative media, this unanimity is proof positive that the West is up to no good, that it is waging war just as it always has done. So the difficulty for me comes from people who maybe don’t know enough about Ukraine just regurgitating certain things.

After Kisin refused to agree to those terms and chose not to perform, the UNICEF on Campus society at SOAS apologised and clarified they did not wish to "impose that guests would have to agree to anything they do not believe in". Which is perhaps why I won’t deny that it’s always nice when you see that your other half is still capable of attracting the eye of a nice young man like Konstantin Kisin, too. Kisin is the author of An Immigrant's Love Letter to the West, which became a Sunday Times bestseller in the first week of its publication. Best comedy shows at the Edinburgh Fringe 2019: reviews of 40 of this year's must see-comedians, including Jordan Brookes, Catherine Cohen and Laura Lexx".

Take it from a Russian – the alternative to Western democracy

Putting aside the fact that Labour has yet to elect a leader of large gametes, let alone of non-white ethnic background, there is a familiar failure across the board to appreciate just how incredibly far we’ve come. It gives him an important perspective on the West at a time when the West would appear to be throwing away so much of what it has achieved.

But beneath the sizzle of the snark, there is often a familiar weariness, half in love with easeful death, and a deeper, more bitter desire to bring it all crashing down. And Kisin maintains that "we're having all sorts of difficult conversations that you're not seeing on TV, you're not hearing on the radio. Konstantin Vadimovich Kisin ( Russian: Константин Вадимович Кисин; born 25 December 1982) is a Russian-British satirist, author, political commentator, and co-host (with Francis Foster) of the Triggernometry podcast.