And thank you for stopping by.  Rooted in Poland, of mixed Polish,

Ukrainian, Jewish and French ancestry, I grew up in an agricultural environment as the youngest child of survivors of Nazi atrocities.

From a very early age on, I experienced how Stalinism actually feels, consequently developing a strong aversion against all forms of

ideology and collectivism.  This has shaped my worldview.

 

I did an apprenticeship in hotel management in Canada, but stronger

was the desire to help overcoming the divide between the East and

the West.  Having accumulated ≡ 466 ECTS credits and graduated in international studies, I evolved into an anti-academic who proudly

threw away Wittgenstein's ladder.  I have fairly little respect

for academic degrees and titles, my own ones included.

Knowledge and competence do not need degrees.

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I started writing primarily for one major international news agency

and also producing TV news.  Berlin-based, right on the front line of

the Cold War, I reported from Europe before, during, and after the fall

of the Iron Curtain.  In addition, I served as an Army reserve interpreter,

as well as on the diplomatic floor.

It was what I saw and heard first-hand from political figures that made me abandon my aspiring career in the early 1990s.  So I began working in the

aviation industry, gaining experience in airline check-in, in aircraft handling

on the ramp, in meteorology, to some degree in the cockpit, until I made it

into the tower as an air traffic controller and eventually training instructor. When I became medically unfit for aeronautical jobs, I launched a

low-profile modeling career, until my age made me step back.