A Communist Chinese soldier was on the frontier and writing a letter home to his wife. He obviously couldn't tell her too much about where he was, which would be a security risk, but he could tell her about his day. He let her know about the bad food, hard ground where they slept if it wasn't muddy from the torrential rain, the over-strictness of the sergeants and officers, and the fact that he hadn't really slept well. Despite all this, he wrote, he was proud to be serving his country and the people of China, so no sacrifice was too small for him to make for the collective good.

He ended the letter with "I wish I could write more, but I don't want to upset the censors who will read this letter before it gets to you."

His wife received the letter a week later. At the conclusion of the letter, in different handwriting than her husband's, was the notation "there are no censors in the People's Republic of China!"