OpinionJournal - Born in the USSR

Julia Gorin performs a rare public service: telling ignorant anti-war peaceniks what life was really like for the rest of the people in the Soviet Union--which is to say, other than Party apparatchiks and their friends, relatives, and associates--also known as the nomenklatura, or the Big Names with Pull. The story of her own birth (which she barely survived) and of the way things are done today in North Korea (infants stuffed into a box and buried alive because North Korea can't feed its own people) ought to give anyone pause who really thinks that the American military is all that is wrong with the world today.