Inventing Russia

Why Anna Delvey is the Anti-Hero of Our Times

Paul Greenberg
4 min readApr 12, 2022

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Is it fate or coincidence that Anna Delvey of the Netflix hit Inventing Anna should arrive just as we are beginning to unmask post-Soviet pseudo-capitalism, perhaps the greatest scam of our times? For the uninitiated, Anna Delvey a.k.a. Anna Sorokina, is a Russian-born, German-accented pretend socialite who arrives on the New York scene “to build something.”…

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Paul Greenberg

New York Times bestselling author of Four Fish as well as The Climate Diet and Goodbye Phone, Hello World paulgreenberg.org