> Stripping someone’s citizenship sounds like a “tough penalty for the worst” kind of thing, but what is the actual point? As a piece of prior art, the Soviet

> Stripping someone’s citizenship sounds like a “tough penalty for the worst” kind of thing, but what is the actual point? As a piece of prior art, the Soviet Union’s policy for revoking citizenship served as an implicit threat of “you’ll become unemployable, homeless, and not eligible for any and all social services up to and including emergency medicine if you gamble on being able to leave and lose”[1]. More recent policies, e.g. the current dual-citizenship French one, seem to be declarations in the vein of “even if you have achieved the coveted naturalized status, you’ll forever be second-class”. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otkaznik https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otkaznik