Danny Hekmat

Mr. Brewer
History
May 7, 2008

What its like to live in a Communist Country named Iran.

Hello, my name is Ardakan Hussain, I have lived in Iran for 40 years. I started
teaching Persians how to drive, and then I immigrated to Capitalist country named
America. I teach people how to drive in Los Angeles so they can pass their drivers license
test the first time. In Iran, my parents always told me about their life in repression and
how the school was, and how they lived in a poor state of poverty because of the
communist government. My parents told me that living in a communist country felt like
being a dog, owned by an owner that is the government. My parents told me that they
hated communism and never liked it and never will. My parents life style was very
inflexible because of the government. The government chose what school they went to in
which they got abused, their job, their location. Because of their busy work schedule,
vacations were rare. I have a story of repression that I once called out during class. The
teacher told me to come up to his desk then he sent me to the officer, they found out I was
Jewish and they arrested me and my familythis happens often in my country. In Iran, a
great amount of money is put into the CIA/ spy department of the government. If one
would talk critically in the taxi, the taxi driver might have been appointed as a spy, and he
might be able to get me in trouble, so yes I was scared to talk critically of the
government. In order to leave Iran, I ran from Iran. When I immigrated to America, I

thought I was living a limitless dream with as much freedom as I wanted. It wasnt
difficult to live this dream that I had my whole life. The Communism System failed to
work because it was consisted of people, and the majority of the people simply did not
like the communist system because they didnt have freedom and free will. In my
perspective, Capitalism is great for the government and the people that are independent
and dont need governmental aid.