Are you a communist?

Are you a communist?  I noticed the medal on your page. I lived in Ukraine for 2 and a half years.  My wife is Ukrainian.  I miss that country dearly.  The people are so incredible.  My heart aches for Odessa, the pearl of the black sea.  I knew some closet communists here in America.  Salt Lake City has a communist economics program.  I am not a communist, instead I am somewhere in between.  Quasi-Socialist?

I met a person who was in a mental hosptital for political beliefs in Ukraine, released during Glasnost, because of Amnesty International. For this and other historical reasons, I could never be a communist myself.   

I e-mailed this [Image:Soviet medal mother.jpg medal to my mom for her birthday], a little Soviet triva for you.