Eduard Limonov

Eduard Limonov is expelled from the Soviet Union in the 1970s and ends up in New York as part of the punk scene. He writes a novel with himself as the hero – revealing what he says is the true hidden America behind the rhetoric of freedom and democracy. Then Limonov comes back to liberated Russia in the 1990s and forms a party to take on the corrupting force of western money. It is a fusion of communism and fascism.

One of its first members – the musician Egor Letov – is a brave and radical figure who led the political punk movement in Russia in the 1980s and was sent to a mental hospital.