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🇨🇿 From Czechoslovakia to Canada: A Warning Reborn

She was a young woman in Czechoslovakia when the secret police still prowled the streets.

She remembers the small things that made a big difference: how people lowered their voices before saying anything political, how neighbours looked away rather than risk being seen together, how every newspaper carried the same headlines approved by the Party.

Her father used to say, “Don’t ever tell the truth out loud. Truth is dangerous.”

That was the air she breathed — a world where people learned to smile and stay silent.

When she finally came to Canada, she wept the first time she walked into a grocery store. The shelves were full. People argued openly about government policy in line at the post office. A police officer smiled and helped her with directions instead of demanding identification.

She would later say, “I felt as if I had stepped into light after living my whole life underground.”

For years, she told everyone that Canada was proof that freedom worked ...