We've got people back home who can do it. One of the reasons Father fled to the U.S. - Soviet authorities bred people who could make you into whatever they wanted. Some who could alter you physically, more who could alter you mentally. Make you think whatever they want. That the Soviet authorities are handsome and beautiful and you want to love them with all your heart, that you love them so much that you're going to starve yourself to death to prove it, whatever.
[Bitterly:]
Not that we don't have them, too. We just don't brag about it like they did.
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We've got people back home who can do it. One of the reasons Father fled to the U.S. - Soviet authorities bred people who could make you into whatever they wanted. Some who could alter you physically, more who could alter you mentally. Make you think whatever they want. That the Soviet authorities are handsome and beautiful and you want to love them with all your heart, that you love them so much that you're going to starve yourself to death to prove it, whatever.
[Bitterly:]
Not that we don't have them, too. We just don't brag about it like they did.