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Don't Fly Over a Napping Vulcano (Unless You Have a Death Wish)
At first sight this African volcano looked innocuous. I knew it wasn’t sleeping, but I thought “napping” made it just as safe. So why not fly right over the crater?
Political Asylum - The Trieste Refugee Camp
The way you defected from a Communist country was by finding your way to a free nation somehow and, once there, by asking for political asylum. Easy, right? You must be wondering why only a small percentage of the millions of citizens confined behind the Iron Curtain ever did it.
Researching Dracula
Coming soon! In the meantime you may explore the Dracula Chronicles Resources.
My First Encounter with Dracula
The summer of 1952 was my coming of age as a preschool Communist larva. What better place to show me and my coevals the meaning of obedience to the country rulers than a visit to Dracula’s home town of Sighisoara (Schassburg in the novel)?
Life Behind the Iron Curtain
If you watched Oliver Stone’s provocative TV series The Untold History of the United States, you know more about the macro events leading to the advent of the Iron Curtain than I could tell you in this blog.