that American CIA is dropping Colorado beetles on our beautiful potato fields to eliminate our crops.

And each schoolboy had a picture of Colorado bug on the back page of his notebook.

And we were instructed to go into collective fields to search for those little Colorado bugs.

Of course we couldn't find any, neither we could find many

potatoes and that was explained again by the encroachments of the

decadent imperialist power. The anti-American paranoia, hysteria in the Soviet propaganda was to such a higher degree

that many less skeptical people or less stubborn would really believe that the United States

is just about to invade our beautiful motherland and some secretly hope that it will come true.

That's interesting.

Yes.

Well, getting back to life inside the Soviet Union or inside communist countries in general. In this country, at the university level

primarily, we read and hear that the Soviet system is different from ours but not that

different and that there is a convergence

developing between all of the systems of the world and that really it doesn't make an awful lot of difference what system you live under because

you have corruption and dishonesty and tyranny and all that sort of thing.

From your personal experience, what is the difference between life under communism and life in the United States?

Well, life is obviously very much different for simple reason that the Soviet Union

is a state capitalist economically.

It's a state capitalism where an individual has absolutely no rights, no value, his life is nothing.

Just like an insect. He is disposable.

Whereby in the United States, even the worst criminal is treated as a human being

he has a fair trial and some of them capitalize on their crimes they publish their

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