Thanks for the pub, comrade. Now scram.
Doctor Zhivago is on Tubi this month. I tell people to watch it because it deals with such concepts. A lady I work with migrated from Russia back in the 1980s. Her husband was a private in the army and when they were boarding their flight to leave Russia, the authorities confiscated their photo albums of him in his army uniform because they were state secrets and they took her grandmother’s wedding ring because it belonged to the state.
I remember asking her about appealing the ring confiscation and she said it would have meant staying for a couple more years and could be confiscated again the next time they ready to leave. They got out because they were Christian and it took them about 10 years from starting the process to being able to leave.