(Christ the King) Leo Rosten tells a story about Yuri Smolenski, a Jewish engineer in the former Soviet Union. Yuri had been ordered to move to a minor position in a faraway, frozen Siberian outpost.
His parents, in tears, were watching him pack.
"I'll write every day," said Yuri.
"But the censorship," wailed his mother. "They'll watch every word."
Yuri's father said, "I have an idea. Anything you write in black, we'll know is true. But anything you put in red ink, we'll know is nonsense!"
A month passed; then from Siberia came a long letter ” all in black ink!
"Dear Mama and Papa," the letter began. "I can't tell you how happy I am here. It is a workers' paradise! We are treated like kings. I live in a fine apartment ” and the local butcher has meat every single day! There are many concerts, th…