Very occasionally we have losses to the Communists. Every once in a while someone will go behind the Iron Curtain. There are not many cases all together. and they often come back. But. more importantly. the flood tides of refugees is almost always from East to West and not from West to East. The minute the slightest chink is found in the Iron Curtain. people pour out by the thousandsyes. the hundreds of thousands and. indeed. the millionsas they did out of East Germany when the curtain for the moment could be penetrated. The experience of a man like Jaanimets is tremendously revealing in that connection.
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