Communists sentenced my father's father to ten years hard labor for having a small American flag in his possession (by that time he had been a leader… - Peter W. Schramm

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Communists sentenced my father's father to ten years hard labor for having a small American flag in his possession (by that time he had been a leader of the social democrats for some years). At his "trial" he was asked why he had the flag. Was he a spy? He replied that it represented freedom better than any other symbol he knew, and that he had a right to have it.