I am so frightened by what's happening in my country. I never thought in a million years that this would be tolerated for so long. I am deeply saddened that a democracy is starting to look like a dictatorship. It must change at the end of the year. Must! If not, I am going to ask my husband to move to Europe. But even there, I wonder how safe we will be. Putin and his buddy could try to take over the world and create what many would perceive as an evil empire. And you all know who is most hurt under such totalitarian regimes? The perceived "weak" and those that the hierarchy believes as "inferior".

My husband grew up under communism, a country with totalitarian rule. He knows what it looks like and how it operates. He escaped that in search for more freedom. Now, he believes life in his old country may possibly be better for us. Communist rule was broken down by the Velvet Revolution. But is CZ fully safe? The Ukraine is not that far away, and they have been invaded. There were consequences for that invasion, but in the last few years, those consequences have gradually been taken away, to a large degree.