Describing yourself as a "refugee of Communism" is an explicitly political stance which initially put me off reading this article. Was it relevant? Considering that she then describes working beyond the point that it damages her health, I'm not sure that this is such a great advertisement for capitalism.

Nobody is a refugee of 'communism' at least as far as nobody is a citizen of communism - communism isn't a nation-state.

(In general, people claiming asylum from communist states have been aristocrats with the power to choose to leave, and choose to do so rather than lose their status: so this shouldn't in itself be seen as a claim to poverty or disadvantage)