{"id":305823,"date":"2021-09-10T08:36:59","date_gmt":"2021-09-10T08:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=213723"},"modified":"2021-09-10T08:36:59","modified_gmt":"2021-09-10T08:36:59","slug":"exile-then-and-now-from-the-iron-curtain-to-the-afghan-diaspora","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/09\/10\/exile-then-and-now-from-the-iron-curtain-to-the-afghan-diaspora\/","title":{"rendered":"Exile, Then and Now: From the Iron Curtain to the Afghan Diaspora"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the 1970s, my parents decided to go into exile, away from totalitarian Prague. Under Communism, moving to another country was unconstitutional, so they had to leave clandestinely. With their teenage children &#8211; my brother and I &#8211; they went on an organized trip to India, which, they discovered too late, had meanwhile signed an  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/09\/10\/exile-then-and-now-from-the-iron-curtain-to-the-afghan-diaspora\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/09\/10\/exile-then-and-now-from-the-iron-curtain-to-the-afghan-diaspora\/\">Exile, Then and Now: From the Iron Curtain to the Afghan Diaspora<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/09\/10\/exile-then-and-now-from-the-iron-curtain-to-the-afghan-diaspora\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the 1970s, my parents decided to go into exile, away from totalitarian Prague. Under Communism, moving to another country was unconstitutional, so they had to leave clandestinely. With their teenage children &#8211; my brother and I &#8211; they wen&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1755,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305823"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1755"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305823"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":305824,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305823\/revisions\/305824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}