Extraordinary Mash-Ups
by Ilya GeninMarch 15, 2014 - April 12, 2014Ilya Genin has a refreshing, provocative take on present day Cuba. Born and raised behind the Iron Curtain, now an American citizen, Genin first learned of Cuba through Soviet messaging. Cuba was a poster child for the common persons’s struggle. Cuba’s accomplishments were, of course, heavily subsidized by the Soviet Union, and Genin viewed these successes through the lens of his own daily life in the Ukraine. Skepticism was an appropriate response. The Soviet Union fell, Genin immigrated to the United States, and the island …