This is a linkpost for https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/osYFcQtxnRKB4F4HA/a-tale-from-communist-china
I wrote this post for LessWrong, about how my grandparents failed to emigrate from Communist China before it was too late, and it somewhat surprisingly became my highest-karma post there. It occurs to me that the audience here may appreciate it as well, since it also works as a striking object lesson in ineffective altruism.