Over the last few weeks, I've been reading reports from Dr. Ileana Johnson, author and economist, about her recent trip to Romania.    She left communist Romania in 1978 as a young woman.  She and I have different backgrounds but share our experience with communism, although she lived under it longer than I did. Romania is a small central European nation that borders Bulgaria, Ukraine, Hungary, Serbia, and Moldova.  They speak Romanian, a language that has a historic connection to the romance languages like Spanish, Italian, French, and Portuguese. After World War II, Romania was taken over by the USSR and turned into a satellite state, a member of the Warsaw Pact.  It broke from communism shortly after the collapse of the Berlin Wall. Today, Romania has one of the top 50 GDPs in the world, or $264 billion. In 2011, U.S.-Romania trade in goods and services totaled $2,347 million. U.S. agricultural machinery...(Read Full Post)