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Curious, is it possible that the restrictive Soviet rule (beginning with Josef and ending with the death of Brezhnev or, if you will, Gorbachev's glasnost+peret
by cm3 10y ago
Curious, is it possible that the restrictive Soviet rule (beginning with Josef and ending with the death of Brezhnev or, if you will, Gorbachev's glasnost+peretroika) caused this, or does it go much further back to Zarist times? What's the underlying explanation?
- Muromec 10y agoExplanation for what exactly? To have your civil acts written in book kept by government - it's definitely not soviet invention, before USSR it was kept by church at least since 18th century.
- cm3 10y agoFor the mentioned group's fears. It must be based in some defining event, no?
- Muromec 10y agoNo. It's just cheaper to make identity fraud without centralized database. You pay few thousands to regional officer in any district and they issue you a handwritten internal id book [0] with whatever name you want and there is no trace of it. If something happens they would claim that id form was fraudulent or stolen. However, when you get tax number, it goes through central office and leaves paper trail and entry in some database that records such issuance. [0] http://images.delcampe.com/img_large/auction/000/226/943/305_003.jpg http://images.delcampe.com/img_large/auction/000/226/943/305...