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.
As a long ago victim of bona fide, not imaginary, revisionary or artificially created, institutionalized discrimination, I too want to contribute to this suddenly popular
My reflections after today’s Senate confirmation hearings. One of the most dangerous impacts of socialism, in addition to food shortages and physical punishment, is brainwash.
So, I’ve been thinking about this for nearly four years while I witness the virtual assassination of President Donald J. Trump and murder of the
This photo, taken by a Nazi Officer in Babi Yar Sept 29-30 1941, was colorized recently. We are each the sum of our memories and
My very first English lesson happened when I was about five in my Soviet Union pre-school. Here’s what we were taught to sing: Good morning,
In my youth I was fascinated with my “discovery” that all life originated from Africa. There were no blacks living in the USSR. In some
As I am knee deep in my next pre-query work, I recently stumbled upon a blog by a very famous literary agent. He had advertised
Hendrick Smith, the legendary NYT reporter who spent significant time in the USSR and wrote about it, cites a famous joke of the cold, gloomy
“We don’t need no education, we don’t need no thought control No dark sarcasm in the classroom Teacher, leave them kids alone” I loved Brick
Hitler’s Germany attacked USSR on June 22, 1941. Kiev was bombed at 4 a.m. Once Nazis entered Kiev on September 19, 1941, the remaining population
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