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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.

The World’s Smallest Kingdom

Marina Berkovich July 7, 2023 No Comments

Perhaps our entire vacation, from the time we left the Port of Miami on May15 to the time we returned to Fort Lauderdale Airport on

EDINBURGH CASTLE ROCKS

Marina Berkovich July 6, 2023 No Comments

EDINBURGH CASTLE No city ever made such an overwhelming wow impression on me as Edinburgh. Not even London ten days earlier. The reasons are numerous,

HEATHER ALE and heather everywhere

Marina Berkovich July 5, 2023 No Comments

Whether in Ireland or Scotland, heather was everywhere. I have never seen it before, but I know of it from the English and Scottish poetry

THE FIRTH OF FORTH – MAY THE FORTH BE WITH YOU

Marina Berkovich July 5, 2023 No Comments

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

The Owners of Peace

Marina Berkovich December 30, 2022 No Comments

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”

Being “Russian”

Marina Berkovich March 3, 2022 No Comments

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

Socialist Cannibalism

Marina Berkovich January 26, 2022 No Comments

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

Cold War II Turkey Day

Marina Berkovich November 24, 2021 No Comments

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

Three Romances by Alexander Goldstein to Lyrics of Marina Berkovich

Marina Berkovich October 2, 2021 No Comments

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,

To Each His Own Exodus. Her own, if you must be so PC that you cannot see the forest for the trees, unless you rewrite the entire English vocabulary.

Marina Berkovich March 30, 2021 No Comments

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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