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Vietnam was a brutal, claustrophobic, totalitarian society after the communists took over.
Neighbours had to inform on each other. Propaganda blared on street corners. Jaden Lam Phan, aged 9, was put in a cell and beaten for not informing on his father who, like a million others, was trying to escape Communist Vietnam.
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