Live the same

As I said, I don’t remember all the details, but for people who enjoy reading, it won’t be hard to imagine the whole picture. His entire family spent many years creating the illusion that they were loyal to the party and to this "country" so that they would eventually be allowed to go on tour abroad. They returned from their tours without issue, so that they would be permitted to go again, and to increasingly more civilized countries—ones that weren’t allies of the Red Hole and wouldn’t send them back.

Meanwhile, the Red Dump did everything it could to show off, especially to the United States—“look, our rockets are bigger, our athletes are stronger, and our artists are better too.” That’s why they occasionally arranged international tours, which some people took advantage of.

But leaving the country wasn’t enough—there were always escorts, and threats were often made against the families who stayed behind. That’s why the risk was enormous!

After years of pretending to be completely loyal to the Party and biding their time... his parents finally got their chance - just in time, because his mother was pregnant with him. They knew it was their last chance to go on tour and try to escape. Of course, the whole family was not allowed to leave - only his father and his pregnant mother were allowed to leave, and they managed to hide her pregnancy. His grandfather stayed behind. He knows almost nothing about the rest of his relatives.

At this point, I do not remember the details of how exactly his parents managed to escape and get to Brooklyn, but they did. One can imagine them climbing out of a hotel window on a rope made of bed sheets, with "Comrade Major" chasing them - but I do not remember that part of the story. Good whiskey has already made me inattentive, but happy, ha ha ha!

As for his grandfather, he was sent to prison - and he died there - he found out many years later.

Our new friend was born in Brooklyn.