Axel Delwig

I was born in Russia and I lived in Moscow until the age of 30 until I got a job at Max-Planck Institute in Germany in 1990. There was no Internet or e-mails at the time, so I was sending many application letters by post. The clerk at the post office warned me that I should not enter my return address, as:

- "The KGB will come for you otherwise, you do not want this, do you?".

You tend to remember those small things in your life, as you do your first read of the "Gulag archipelago" by Solzhenitsyn. The only difference to those times is that now Gulag is has been inverted and applied to the entire Russia, while previously it was hold behind the barbed wire in Siberia.

People in power in Russia today project themselves as something new, while in fact they are just the old brew of hard-core Bolsheviks that won in 1917, and their most deepest wish to apply Gulag everywhere, as there seems to be nothing that they can possibly think of! My Bio is irrelevant; what is relevant though is that I do not want the pain and danger of "Life in Moscow in 1980s..." will some day becomes relevant to you and that the last part of the book title "... Communism and now" will become a reality.