When my grandmother was 18 or 19, she was nearly executed by the state. Her...

country was under an extremely brutal military dictatorship. You could be executed for giving water to the wrong person. Political crimes were punished by immediate death, with no trial whatsoever. They questioned you and then they shot you. And often shot your family and neighbors, too, just to make an example of you. Grandma did something a bit foolish and naive and was arrested by a group of soldiers for treason. She was barely able to talk her way out of it. The soldiers eventually let her go. She's still alive to this day. Had she been unlucky, she probably would...

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