In the USSR it was just the case. Some dissidents (for instance, Solzhenitsyn, Rostropovich) had their Soviet citizenship taken away and were deported from the country. After that they received another state's citizenship, but for some time they had none.
I don't have problems with understanding/reading texts, perhaps I can't always detect irony and sarcasm. In live communication one can figure this out by intonation and facial expression of the interlocutor. Since in your post I had neither (and you didn't give any other clue) it is quite understandable that I could misinterpret the message. If you aim at clear understanding, make sure others get your intention.
Yet if it was sarcasm, it doesn't reflect great credit upon you. For a significant part of your life you have been doing what you despise. Talk of hypocrisy.
You know perfectly well that there are accidents in which cars functioned alright and knives meant for killing are not always the ones used in murders, yet you go on being childish in blaming objects for what humans do. The same as kids hitting some tool or thing which through mishandling hurt the owner. So keep kicking the rake that struck you after you stepped on it and shout "Bad rake!"
Keep quoting wiki which tells me about the life in the USSR. I LIVED IN THE USSR AND I KNOW THE WAY IT WAS.
When I was baptized (at the age of five) I was told to keep it deep secret and not to breathe even my friends in the kindergarten a word about it. My godfather had to keep it secret as well because he was a Communist and the chief engineer at a building company. If you were spotted attending a church (even on a holiday such as Easter or Christmas) your boss - at the instigation of the communist party chapter of the enterprise you worked at - would severely reprimand you and your future career advancement was forfeit. Because of this very reason my godfather wasn't even present at the procedure of my baptism, so all the neccessary rituals were attended to by his wife (so, strictly speaking, his wife IS my godfather). Priests were supposed to report on the flock to KGB. So the Soviet freedom of faith you try to convince me in was true only for people after 60. If you had any aspirations in your life you could see the church only from the outside (and from a safe distance too).
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