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Chrenkoff – Third time lucky

And on a serious note:

We, Poles, were fortunate enough during the 1980s to be able to reach the West without having to cross the border disguised as a shrub (although in the immediate aftermath of the martial law in 1981 some did, crossing the mountains on the Polish-Czechoslovak border, walking through Czechoslovakia, and crossing, again illegally, the Czech-Austrian border). But when living in Italian refugee camps in the late 1980s, I recall listening to Romanians telling stories of their escapes from Ceaucescu’s paradise. These people literally had to swim rivers; many were shot at by the Romanian border guards; many had their friends or family members die either from gunshots or from drowning or both. And, of course, how can we forget the Berlin Wall, erected – according to the East German authorities – to keep the West Germans out, where more than 260 people had died while trying to cross to freedom.

It boggles the mind, doesn’t it?