Communism continues to obliterate

Struggles as breadwinners head West - Frontier: Europe - MSNBC.com

Here's another of your standard "husband leaves family for a time in hopes of a better life for all" story. It's about a Latvian family enduring a temporary separation as the husband/father works as a skilled construction worker in England so that he can support his wife and two children back in Latvia. Something struck me, though, in the telling. The wife and children "live(s) in one of the bleak Khrushchev-era apartment blocks known as “khrushchovki” that litter cities across the former Soviet Union. It's a step up from their previous home, a desolate cabin in the woods."

Isn't it incredible how communism continues to exert it's insidious ambition over countries that broke away more than 15 years ago? The damage wreaked by the Soviet Union on its satellite states in an attempt to Russify and communize them will be seen for decades to come. Today, it is manifesting itself in families splitting apart and populations leaving in droves because of the inability for the economies to recover in some nations. These are countries with rich histories going back centuries! And families are consigned to living in crumbling concrete tombs, a testament to the limits of man's power when he strives to create a "better man" apart from God's plan. More to come...