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“From the private life of someone doing research on emigration in the film industry: on the phone, a woman confirms that her late husband, the producer So-and-So, was an emigrant. In our new project manager’s office, we discover that he emigrated, not from Nazi Germany in 1933, but from an Eastern European socialist country in 1949. “What difference does that make?” the man’s widow asks. After spending time in jail, seeing all their property confiscated, and paying an appallingly high exit fee, the family was expelled and frisked at the border; the woman was stripped stark naked and searched “everywhere, but absolutely everywhere” (I nod to show that I’ve understood). Whence the sixty-thousand dollar question for Marxist ethics: Does communism have a right to look for hidden diamond rings in “bourgeois cunts”?“ (Straschek)
