the reason was and always has been the same: you could defect on pragmatic and material grounds, but your family and all your life remain in the nation you left. So, specially for a young man, it’s often not an option.
You are a young german. You defect to the USSR. And then? your family hates you, your former country considers you a traitor, you don’t speak the language, don’t know the culture and everyone in the new country is at least suspicious of you.
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the reason was and always has been the same: you could defect on pragmatic and material grounds, but your family and all your life remain in the nation you left. So, specially for a young man, it’s often not an option.
You are a young german. You defect to the USSR. And then? your family hates you, your former country considers you a traitor, you don’t speak the language, don’t know the culture and everyone in the new country is at least suspicious of you.
The more respect for the Americans who did defected to DPRK.