Manan Anwar

The Soviet Union operated a network of overseas hospitals including in Iran.

One of the Chief Surgeons in a hospital in Tehran needed a replacement surgeon and he wrote rather scathingly back home that 'phenomenon of the female surgeon is abnormal and unnatural’ and they should not consider sending female surgeons abroad.

The Soviet Red Cross committee flatly refused and sent a female surgeon.

Women constituted over 75% of the medical professional in the Soviet Union.

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Manan Anwar

Psychic Healers, Exploding TVs and the first ever live Transmission from Space. Check out today's video

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Manan Anwar

This is what I have been reading the last two weeks.

1. Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick
2. The Martian by Andy Weir (3rd Read)
3. Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir (2nd Read)
4. Challenge to Apollo: The Soviet Union and the Space Race, by Asif A. Siddiqi (Halfway done)
5. Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World’s First Digital Weapon by Kim Zetter (Just started)
6. Without You, There Is No Us: Undercover Among the Sons of North Korea’s Elite by Suki Kim
7. The Real North Korea by Andrei Lankov (Just started)

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2 days ago | [YT] | 18

Manan Anwar

In Soviet Union, Stalin was extremely secretive about the Soviet Missile and ballistic program. So much so that when after his Stalins death, Khruschev visited the facilities in person, he was so amazed that he gawked 'like peasants in a market place' and did everything except 'licking the missiles'

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New Video Premiere Today.

Following the lives of ordinary citizens in North Korea. Today I want to show you specifically about the marriage and relationships.

What was the ceremony like during ancient Korean dynasties? What rights did women have?

And then what changed when Soviet Union came? We follow the journey to this day and see the contrast with what it is now.

Watch out for the goose. That will be really important.

1 week ago | [YT] | 12

Manan Anwar

I have noticed a lot of my viewers listen to my videos. And that gave me the idea.

Would you be interested in long form, podcast style deepdives without any B-roll? Just me speaking into the camera.

I am thinking 20-30 mins episodic series on any of the topics below.

1 week ago | [YT] | 18

Manan Anwar

Soviet Union meets weird products, what would you like to see ?

1 week ago | [YT] | 12

Manan Anwar

Which Asian country is often said to have been the first to virtually eliminate illiteracy?

1 week ago | [YT] | 12

Manan Anwar

Making a video on the strangest everyday products in the Soviet Union. What would you like me to include?

1 week ago | [YT] | 23

Manan Anwar

New Video Coming today !

This one is about North Korea

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