On Thursday, July 8, VOC was proud to co-host, along with the American Museum of the Cuban Diaspora, ADN Cuba, the Inspire America Foundation, and the Florida International University’s Václav Havel Program for Human Rights & Diplomacy, the screening a powerful, prize-winning documentary film about the Soviet collapse by noted author David Satter. An expert on the Soviet Union and contemporary Russia, Mr. Satter has been expelled for his truth-telling by the Soviet Union and was also the first journalist expelled by Russia after the Cold War.
In ‘Age of Delirium’, former Moscow based Financial Times correspondent, Wall Street Journal editorial writer, Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute, and VOC academic council member David Satter recounts spellbinding stories about the people and events he witnessed as an American investigative journalist in Soviet Russia, and then in authoritarian Russia.
Through the lens of Mr. Satter’s experiences, ‘Age of Delirium’ shows how the U.S.S.R. designed and built an entire superpower on the basis of a false idea, and presents poignant individual stories demonstrating how its citizens were forced to live out a fictitious reality and endure the brutal totalitarian measures taken by the Soviet regime to try and “reimagine” a Marxist-Leninist reality.
The documentary film screening was the first time the documentary was shown with Spanish subtitles. The screening was followed by a Q&A with David Satter, who will discuss the documentary and the impact of the Soviet Union with prominent community figures, including Armando De Armas, journalist for Radio and Television Marti, Dr. Orlando Gutierrez-Boronat, Coordinator of the Assembly of the Cuban Resistance, and Ambassador Martin Palouš, former Permanent Resident to the United Nations for the Czech Republic and current Director of the Václav Havel Program for Human Rights and Diplomacy at Florida International University.
