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For this reason, Equality 7-2521 plans to steal back into the city and rescue International 4-8818. His good friend has managed to develop his own mind, and there is no place for him in the stifling collectivist society in which he is trapped. But in the free society that Equality 7-2521 seeks to found find in the mountains, men will be able to pursue their dreams. There, International 4-8818 will be free to draw as he likes and to think for himself. He has abundantly earned the chance to live as a free man, and Equality 7-2521 intends to provide it for him. International 4-8818 will be the first to defect from the global dictatorship and find freedom in the new society. He will escape to liberty just as many have fled from such Communist states as Cuba, North Korea, Vietnam, China, and various nations of Eastern Europe. International 4-8818 will not be the last to flee collectivism, for as news spreads that human beings again have a chance for freedom, the most independent among them will re-initiate the quest that had flourished centuries earlier: they They will defect in droves and seek political asylum in the free country.