I am Ludwik Kowalski, a retired nuclear physicist. Here is a link to my autobiography:   http://csam.montclair.edu/~kowalski/life/intro.html   in case someone is interested. The title of this ON-LINE memoir is “Diary of a Former Communist: Thoughts, Feelings, Reality.” It is based on a diary kept between 1946 and 2004 (in the USSR, Poland, France and the USA).   A much shorter memoir--recollectio…