Nadia Comaneci Update

15 years ago I reviewed the autobiography of Nadia Comaneci. You can read it here. That year in November would mark the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. During that time Comaneci was plotting her escape out of the hell hole that was Communist Romania. Now a new book recently published in […]

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I know I am late on posting this but in November was 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. A month later on Christmas Day the Romanian dictatorship of Nicolae Ceausescu was overthrown and he and lowlife wife were finally executed. About 10 years ago I came across an autobiography from Nadia Comaneci, […]

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I can’t believe it has been 25 years today since that wall of oppression was brought down; and only due to a Poliburo’s member’s rambling statement.  I believe that wall symbolized the end result of a morally bankrupt ideology.  It laid bare in concrete that people of East Germany, and in Eastern Europe in particular, […]

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Richard Wright wrote a sequel to his seminal autobiography Black Boy.  Wright had intended American Hunger to be published in conjunction with Black Boy.  It was published separately in 1977.  I was introduced to Wright in my early teens, but American Hunger escaped my radar.  This was a painful book to read.  Wright was desperately […]

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I can’t believe it has been twenty years since that horrific wall came down.  I was only eleven year old at the time, so my understanding of the events were very limited.  As I got older I was interested in comparing life in the United States to that of the Communist world.  I was appalled […]

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The title serves a purpose.  I wanted to make a statement with the to reflect the continued moral, intellectual and political chaos of post Communist Russia.  I wanted to direct your attention to an interesting book about modern Russia.  Titled Inside The Stalin Archives: Discoverning the New Russia, the author Jonathan Brent chronicles his journey […]

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I was browsing my local library when I came upon a book by Nadia Comaneci called Letters to a Young Gymnastis Comaneci’s autobiography.  I always wondered if Comaneci had ever written an autobiography.  I remember her defection in 1989.  At that time I was fascinated with gymnastics.  I took many gymnastic classes, unfortunately, I was too tall and too […]

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One of my favorite subjects in school was history.   A few months ago I read book review from The New York Sun, a now defunct newspaper about The Forsaken: An American Tragedy in Stalin’s Russia.  This book details a little known tragedy in American history.  During the Great Depression over 2ooo Americans decided to leave the country for Russia in the […]

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