On the Screen wer pictures ofPoles in large penlike enclosure rounded up after martial law was mpos~d One of my- assistants. a jlnior at USC! stared at the screen. open:mouthed. "Whats -going on there?" "she asked "Why are those people in that big cage?" I explainedthat they had been impris. oned as the result of a crackdbwn by..thE communist government. "Why. dont: they just leave ad come* to L:A:?" she ask6d.. I explained that they werenot -allowed .to leave. Theyre not?" she said. Why not?" -I explained that in totalitarian states citi-: zens usually could not emigrate. L .� "They cant?" she said. "Since when? Is that something new?" " After some explanation of that.(sle asked who6"that guy in the uniform" (Wojciech Jaruzelski) was.
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