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what was the rationale?
by uwagar 5y ago
what 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.