Gladly, I've never lived through a communist regime - but I am so worried what is happening to the world right now and the authoritarian clouds looming over the whole world and manifesting in different ways in different places.

I've been a lurker and just signed up to post this comment to say Godspeed to you, I too am on my continuous struggle and journey to keep my level of freedom "as higher is possible" - or try hard to be as free as I possibly can.