Loading ...This was in Canada, starting in 1956 after the quashed revolt in Hungary . It is true , they all left behind their jobs , kinfolk , and even status to seek freedom . I remember one , Lazlo , who had to leave behind his wife ( who later was able to get out and joined him ) . He lived for the infrequent letters she could get out of the country to him . Another was a young graduate chemist , but had to leave his papers and diploma behind in Hungary , so had no proof of his graduation . He got a job as a laborer at Dow Chemical and eventually worked his way up to being a unit operator , but never a lab researcher as he was actually qualified to be . Another was grey haired ( maybe 60 years old ?). I heard that he was eventually able to get his wife and college aged daughters out to Canada as well . Hearing their stories of oppression under Communism at the dinner table made a permanent mark on my young mind . Later in life I worked briefly in the Czech Republic as they were closing the doors on Communism , and saw the great disparity in quality of work between the free in Western Europe and North America , compared to the oppressed , virtually hopeless folk under Communism .
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