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The same thing happened to Viktor Belenko, the Russian MiG-25 pilot that defected to Japan in 1976. After he'd been thoroughly debriefed, he was allowed to travel where he wanted to go and see what he wanted. He was completely astonished by America's abundance of food and how cheaply he could eat. He visited mom and pop diners, and grocery stores or all kinds; he was simply overwhelmed by the bounty. He realized that everything he'd been told by the communists was lies. One of his biggest adjustments was getting used to CHOICE; n Russia there was no choice in anything. In America, you were faced by choices from the moment you got up to when you went to bed.