Campaign highlights plight of present-day refugees by recalling dramatic communist-era escapes

A new campaign launched by the United Nations High Commissioner for
Refugees called “We ourselves were refugees” is attempting to show
that
the current refugee crisis, at its heart, is no different from when people
in the former communist bloc tried to escape to freedom. Print, radio, and
video clips retell dramatic escapes from the past, including that of a man
who escaped Czechoslovakia with his little boy on a homemade hang-glider.