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Originally Posted by pomi
Hm, and when my mom and dad wanted to visit their friends in Western Germany or my dad's uncle in Toronto, they weren't allowed to take us kids with them. We had to stay in Czechoslovakia so that there was smaller chance my parents would emmigrate. And their suitcases were looked through not for drugs or anything like that but for forbidden books (they still got one through, in the jacket pocket). And when in Toronto, they spent half the time not discovering the beauties there, but reading the books from Czech authors that were forbidden at home.
Totality sucks.
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Actually, you know what the Swiss did to immigrants? They used to search your flat for books in your native language, and if you had it meant you were refusing to assimilate... So my uncles kept hiding theirs in the cellar... So even in the West some things were definitely weird. Still, Communism was much much worse.