I Thought I’d Left Authoritarianism Behind
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Four decades ago, I escaped Communist Czechoslovakia for America. Now my adopted homeland reminds me of the one that I fled. Late in the summer of 1984, I met my dying father for what I thought would be our last lunch together. We’d chosen one of his favorite restaurants in downtown Brno, the …
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