The first was red socks.
I grew up in communist Poland, and I knew few people who didn’t dream of leaving. I was one of them, and I emigrated as soon as the ban on traveling to the West was lifted. The place we all wanted to live was the United States of America, the greatest country in the world. There were many reasons why America was the best, and after living here for a quarter of a century, I still remember some of them.
More here: https://www.washingtonian.com/2018/01/23/and-we-never-had-to-worry-about-preexisting-conditions/
