This article analyzes characters in North American popular culture who migrated from the post-socialist world to the United States and other western countries. It focuses on the Anglo-Ukrainian clone Helena in the television show Orphan Black (Space/BBC America. 2013-2017). the Russian girl Esther in the horror movie Orphan (2009). https://www.ealisboa.com/flash-choice-Sten-Jacket-M-flash-find/