Have you ever had those moments in your life where you wonder what would have happened if you had taken a different path years ago? I've often wondered where I would be if I had gone to college first, instead of joining the Army. I honestly think I came out better with the Army. I didn't know what I wanted to do as an 18 year old kid. I had no direction, and not much discipline, either. The experience I got in the Army has served me better than any of the college courses I've taken.

And when I read articles like this, I thank my lucky stars that I made the choice I did.

Imagine the astonishment of a person who, after fighting the KGB and being a refusenik, finally comes so close to her dream of receiving a real education instead of indoctrination, only to find herself, once again, in the middle of a socialist brainwashing machine -- but this time in San Francisco.

Many of the immigrants from the USSR that I've talked to are amazed that some people in America believe in Communism and Socialism. They can't understand why someone would support an ideology that has ruined so many lives. I can't understand it either.

This pointed out the major difference between my education in the Soviet Union and my education at SFSU. When I wanted to transfer credits from my Leningrad University degree to SFSU, I was told by the International Admissions Office that it couldn't be done, because as a professor of Marxist-Leninist philosophy, I had only gone through "indoctrination." I find this fascinating, because the difference between Leningrad University and SFSU is that my professors in Leningrad were forced to teach socialist propaganda for fear of brutal punishment; here a bunch of aged hippies, who put students through forced indoctrination instead of academic work, were materially rewarded for their radical activism.

Not only am I as amazed as Alice in the Socialist Wonderland of San Francisco State University, but I feel as though I need to attend a third university to receive a real education. At SFSU, I've merely had my second Marxist indoctrination.

I'll take a person with real-life experience before a person who's only been to college any day of the week. Nuff said.

Hat tip to King of Fools.