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There’s a saying: “You can’t hide an elephant in the room." Roughly speaking, it means committing acts whose baseness is obvious, while pretending that this baseness somehow goes unnoticed. We know from books and documents what was happening in the Soviet Union in the 1930s. Those sources show that, under totalitarian terror, it was impossible to resist — even through silence. But I can say that things were completely different during my own childhood and youth. When the Communist authorities persecuted dissidents, it was by no…