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For Western audiences, Slavenka Drakulic, a Croatian writer and journalist, became a voice from behind the Berlin Wall before it fell in 1989. Her essays were not only a sought-after account of life in a socialist camp: Slavenka Drakulic was also one of the first to explain how women lived in the socialist camp. Drakulic's classic book How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed opened up this women's world to the West - private, professional, and activist. It is, however, almost as unknown to us, because for the residents of the Soviet Union at the time, visits abroad, even to "brotherly" socialist countries, were a rare opportunity and a milestone in life, and generations for whom travel is not something out of the ordinary have seen a completely different Eastern Europe. Some of these essays seem like memories of a bygone era, but some resonate with the experience of even those born after the book was written.