Obviuosly, you did not live in a communist country.
After you defect, no matter how, you do not contact the family nor you send money.
Reasons:
1. Money will never reach them. You don't have a bank, or a bank account or Western Union. In the communist country, you have just one bank, state owned, and whoever is caught having or receiving foreign currency is "donating" it to the country, for the good of the party, its people and whoever happens to take it at that time from you.
2. All phone conversations will be listened. Letters will be censored, better yet, thrown in the garbage. The communist party will not allow such a celebrity to call on his parents, after defecting.
Doing that, would have encouraged others to do the same. And we all know how powerful is the power of example.
Everybody was well aware of the consequences to your family, what will happen to the if you give away the "good life" in communism for the evil and corrupted capitalist life. They would have been persecuted, arrested, kept in jail for a few months without a valid reason, just to force you to come back, or force them to "confess" God knows what. So, any kind of contact with the fleeing son or daughter, would have meant extra time in jail or more persecutions.
Hope you understand now!
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