It's been twenty years since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Shinasi A. Rama, deputy director of the NYU Alexander Hamilton Center for Political Economy, Andrzej Dobrowolski, Polish Daily News reporter, Nina Khrushcheva, professor in the International Affairs Program at the New School, senior fellow at World Policy Institute and author of Imagining Nabokov: Russia Between Art and Politics, Alec Brook-Krasny, New York State Assemblyman - (Brooklyn, D-46) and Laszlo Jakab Orsos, director of Hungarian Cultural Center, talk about what life was like on the other side of the iron curtain and their lives in New York.