[Sam's Army]

"I left to avoid the crackdown on opposition and on the trade unions."

In other words, you wanted to make a better life for yourself and have increased economic opportunity. Now all the sudden that you are here, that's a bad thing.

"Now, I ask, why don't you move to some Latin American country where they do not tolerate trade unions, meddling nuns and redistributionist ideas?"

Cuz I don't know the language and I can make more money here. Although I may retire abroad, we'll just have to see what pans out when the time comes.

Hopefully I won't have a "meddling nun" to deal with. I never got along well with the whole guilt for making a dime more than someone else thingy.

[A. Pole]

"I left to avoid the crackdown on opposition and on the trade unions."

In other words, you wanted to make a better life for yourself and have increased economic opportunity.

Wrong. I was well off in Poland and I would be better off if I did not get involved in opposition/trade unions and did not emigrate.

If I "wanted to make a better life for [my]self", I would have supported the regime and after the change of regime I would repaint myself as a free market democrat. Many did so and they are very well off today.