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In USSR foreign travel was severely restricted even to soviet block countries.
by qaq 5y ago
In USSR foreign travel was severely restricted even to soviet block countries.
- uwagar 5y agowhat was the rationale?
- justsomehnguy 5y agoNot enough KGB officers to tail them. /s There was multitude of reasons but the main ones were what you needed to have a good standing in the society[0] and the need to control every aspect of that society. People who would see a (even a little) better living could start asking questions. One could say that was a result of fear. [0] the article provides one such example: > Because of Dmitry’s active involvement in the communist youth groups, when he was 15, his school sent him to the Pioneer summer camp in Nordhausen near Erfurt in East Germany.
- qaq 5y agoPeople were not supposed to see how people actually live in the "west" since quality of life was much higher even in other soviet block countries.
- oh_sigh 5y agoNot only to the bloc countries, but even travel entirely within Russia was also restricted and bureaucratically regulated, requiring internal passports and visas for travel. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passport_system_in_the_Soviet_Union#1932%E2%80%931991 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passport_system_in_the_Soviet_...