When a teenaged defenseman named Petr Svoboda made the choice to leave his Czech homeland, it wasn’t with the relatively small consequences endured by Europeans who choose to play hockey in North America today. Put yourself in his shoes: what would you do if, like Svoboda, you knew you might never see your parents again and that they, too, would suffer after you left?

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