I am a survivor of socialism and I blog here whenever I feel like it, sharing the truth and insights of being a hostage to socialism for the first 18 years of my life and having the courage to escape it.
I have journeyed from behind The Iron Curtain to FREEDOM and I will never give it up!
I write about my experiences, past and current, through my life, my eyes, my heart. I hope you find something that will resonate with you. If not now, maybe in the future.
In Scotland I found myself completely bewildered by the strange (to my ear) sound of Scottish Gaelic words. Two of them, Linne Foirthe, meaning The
Those who follow me recently had an opportunity to travel with me (and my wonderful husband) for 42 days to 29 destinations (at least) in
When I studied English in the USSR, we always referred to our country as Motherland. Probably, because the Nazis referred to theirs as Fatherland, and
The meaning of the Russian name Vladimir is “Owner of The World” or “Owner of Peace”, because Vladimir is a combination of two words: “Vlad”
According to the highest rabbinical authorities, I recently heard that words, like the DNA nucleotides, are what our Universe is built from. Quite often, at
For the past 42 years since I arrived to USA as a stateless refugee from the USSR, I have been fighting to preserve the integrity
Last night, on a recommendation of a friend who understands the disastrous results of believing that socialism works that have plagued the world ever since
On the eve of 2021 Thanksgiving Day, as I count my personal blessings, I am concerned and worried. I awoke last Monday to the news
Photo in Voronezh with Victora, Alexander, Anastasia and Natalya B. A book of my Russian poetry was published two decades ago. And, unbeknownst to me,
We are in Passover time. Each year it means that less than 1% (think of it – a mere one per cent!) of world population
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