Interviews | December 01, 1998
An Interview with Andrei Codrescu
Andrei Codrescu ,Kay Bonetti ,Walter Bargen
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Interviewer: How did you come to the United States?
Codrescu: Let’s see. I swam across the Danube through miles of barbed wire….I ran into people holding hand grenades…No, I came on an airplane with my mother in the mid-sixties, 1965. We left Romania. We were bought by the state of Isreal, which at the time was happily buying freedom for Jews from Romania for the princely sum of five thousand dollars a head. The government paid ten thousand dollars for my mother and me. We were supposed to go to Isreal, but we never did.
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