# I am a Communist. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 21, 2010, 9:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-a-communist/550964 "2010-08-21T09:21:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 146
**Author:** ![Commissar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c68b51/32.png) [@Commissar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Commissar)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2010, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-a-communist/550964/146 "2010-08-23T04:28:08Z")
> [@Ravenman](#): > > When did your family move from the USSR to the US? Why did they move? > > When were you naturalized? Are your parents US citizens? What are their political views? > > Have you visited China? When or why not? Let me tell you, someone who can teach English and Russian over there can probably lead a really good socialist lifestyle. (I taught English in Beijing in the late 90s.) > > Why do you choose to live in the one country that is most closely associated with the fall of communism? I mover here with my parents following the collapse of the Soviet Union. They were afraid that their job security was in jeopardy (this later turned out to not be the case), and received an attractive temporary employment offer from a respected research university. I choose not to answer the immigration questions, except to say that no, I am not here illegally. My mother is apolitical, with socialist leanings but no particular political stances. My father, when he was alive, was a liberal socialist, believing in a Scandinavian-style multi-party welfare state. We had great political debates with him; I miss him a lot. ☹ I have not yet been to China, though I am planning to do so in the coming year or two. I feel that teaching languages is beneath my level of education, to be honest. Why do I live here? I suppose because of family commitments, mostly, but also because I have not yet discovered the proper way out. I would love to immigrate to China, but that hardly seems feasible at the moment. Neither my fiance nor I speak Mandarin and, as I said, I do not wish to teach languages. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-a-communist/550964)._