@Tania, this is a fascinating personal account, thank you so much for sharing it. I think your notion of paranoia is a powerful one, and it makes me think that even with changes in political processes and names of countries or colors in flags, some of the same intentions or hatreds or fears may still be alive, though move and shift in different forms. To this point, slavery has been illegal in the US for over 150 years, and while equality is firmly established in law, how they are lived by people and expressed or considered in how people experience them may show to many people that the same intentions and biases are still alive and well. Not protected here by tape, but rather a blind justice system that itself may be blinded at times.