The cure for liking socialism? Visiting a socialist country

The cure for liking socialism? Visiting a socialist country

One of the reasons I am alarmed by the socialist/communist trends in my own country is that I visited such countries in my youth.My first look at communism was at Checkpoint Charlie in West Berlin in 1984. There, you crossed into East Berlin (the communist side) through a barbed wire, land-mined, machine gun-guarded, no-man’s land.The bite wound — on her hand — appeared serious enough to require an antiseptic. But where could they find that, lat…