To anybody, like Michel, who wants to know more, here is another book I recommend: DISCOVERING AMERICA AS IT IS, by Valdas Anelauskas. Valdas was a dissident journalist in the Soviet Union and was expelled and came to America in 1989, with the help of the Tolstoy Fundation, 10 years later than me. Also like me he then felt like a "naive victim of American propaganda". I have only started the book and am looking forward to reading how he contemplates the future. Going back home is not always possible. It makes me so mad when some idiot screams, "if you don't like it here, why don't you leave", like an order. A lot of decisions are irreversible.
EJ
USA