Heda Kovaly, Czech writer...

...whose memoir, Under a Cruel Star, described her imprisonment by the Nazis during World War II and her persecution by the Communists in the 1950s, died at age 91.

After surviving the torment of the [death] camps, she returned to a homeland in political and economic turmoil. Unlike her husband, she took a skeptical view of Communism. It offered, she wrote in her memoir, “such clear, simple answers to the most complex questions that I kept feeling there must be a mistake somewhere.”

And that's my problem with ideologies and religion. They both offer clear, simple answers to complex questions that defy clear, simple answers.