What Communists Did To My Family In The Soviet Gulags:
- A good way to grasp the breadth of communism’s evils is to understand the depth of the suffering in the lives of its individual victims.
"On February 9, 1940, seven-year-old Witold Rybicki and his family awoke in the middle of the night to banging on the door of their home in Lida, Poland (modern Belarus). 
Outside was an officer of the Soviet secret police, then called the NKVD, who gave his father orders: “Do not run away. Your house is surrounded by soldiers. You have an hour to pack your personal belongings. Do not worry about bringing much. Everything you need will be at your destination.”
The Rybickis were never informed of charges against them, evidence of wrongdoing, a sentence, or their destination...
...A system that guards the sovereignty of individuals can also foster the best within them. Unprompted, Withold expresses a similar lesson from his time under Soviet oppression: “I am so happy being here in the United States. People do not realize what they have here. It’s freedom. How many other countries have this freedom? You can count them on a few hands…Hopefully we can stay that way, [because] we have irresponsible people, even amongst ourselves.”
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