I remember what my grandfather used to say: “Our lives used to be shitty, really shitty, and then shit got worse and worse.” Before and after the war, people out there lived without any passports. They didn’t issue them to people in the country because they didn’t want them in the cities. They were slaves. Under house arrest. They came back from the war covered in medals, they’d conquered half of Europe! But they wouldn’t even give them passports.
