[meenie]

I took my poly sci under a Polish professor that fled from Poland when the Russians arrived. He studied the Russians and didn't like what he saw. I don't think they made a more conservative poly professor. My study of the Russian system took place on border patrol against Chechoslavakia. The refugees I helped out of the Elbe River convinced me that the socio-communist system was better to die from than to live with. This was their thoughts and I had to agree with them.

[Al Simmons]

"I took my poly sci under a Polish professor that fled from Poland when the Russians arrived."

I have the same exact tale, but my recollection is that the professor was Czech. Does the name Otto Ulc ring a bell? (its a long shot, but your description sounds like MY pol sci professor to a tee).