Summary: <p><img class="poster hide" src="https://adst.podbean.com/mf/web/cz5tne/Trans_Siberian.jpg" alt="Trans_Siberian.jpg" width="453" height="198"></p><br> <p>It was unusual for any Americans during the Cold War to travel in the Soviet Union but Russell Sveda did just that in 1969. After serving for two years as a Peace Corps (PC) volunteer in Korea, he decided to make his way home by taking the path less traveled and riding the Trans-Siberian railroad. He talks about meeting ethnic Koreans in Samarkand, his offer of marriage by a woman he didn’t even know, and an hours-long “interview” with a KGB agent posing as a journalist. He was interviewed by Charles Stuart Kennedy in 2000.</p>
