Sometimes we dissidents were not invited, but received an apology, and sometimes we were invited, but did not accept the invitation so as not to complicate the lives of our courageous diplomat friends. Or we were invited to come at an earlier hour in the hope that we would leave before the official representatives arrived, which sometimes worked and sometimes didn’t.
Parfois, nous, les dissidents, n’étions pas invités mais nous recevions des excuses, d’autres fois nous étions invités mais nous n’acceptions pas l’invitation pour ne pas compliquer la situation de nos courageux amis, les diplomates.