Mr. Speaker. because MarxistLeninist governments see themselves as the virtual owners of the human "resources" living within their national borders. they make no distinction between emigres and traitors. Both are in some way dissatisfied with the state. and both are therefore taken to be enemies of the state. Communist bureaucracies deal with requests to emigrate in many different ways. One of the common ones is acceding to the request and charging a bounty in cash. Vietnam made several billion dollars. by some accounts. in the course of arranging the departure of nearly 1 million unwanted ethnic Chinese. East Germany has sold thousands of political prisoners to West German relief organizations.
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Marxist-Leninist governments see emigres as traitors and enemies of the state.