This blog is a collection of stories from my family—memories of life under communism. I'm preserving them here as a record for my children to read when they're older. 🇺🇸

• Have You Checked My Passport
• Behind the Iron Door
• Merchant Marine
• A Way Out of Anything
• A Cultured Jew
• Friend Disappears
• Sliding Glass Door
• Bribing the KGB
• Exploding Avocado
• Fixing a Stroller
• Ding Dong the Stalin's Dead
• Hiding in the Forest
• Promoted to First Lieutenant
• Denouncing Stalin
• Bananas
• Writing Under Duress
• First Paycheck