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You did not needed a passport to travel anywhere. Really. You go to bus/train station, you buy yourself a ticket and then you can go. The need for passport to

by thesz 3y ago

You did not needed a passport to travel anywhere. Really. You go to bus/train station, you buy yourself a ticket and then you can go. The need for passport to travel was introduced well into 90-s because of speculants who bought out tickets of whole trains/planes of popular destinations. I travel by myself from 1988 or so, and did not need any passport until mid '90s.

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thriftwy 3y ago
You could take a trip there but applying for a job / study in large cities were restricted, especially without passport.
- thesz 3y ago
  A non-negligible percentage of corresponding members of Academy of Sciences of the USSR were born in rural areas [1] (look at these who were appointed at around 1970-1980, they most probably born in USSR). [1] https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%BF%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%BA_%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BC%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B2_%D0%90%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BC%D0%B8%D0%B8_%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%83%D0%BA_%D0%A1%D0%A1%D0%A1%D0%A0 https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%BF%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%BE... (Russian) How do they come to such heights if applying to the study in large cities was restricted, is a complete mistery to me.
- thesz 3y ago
  And yes, let us first go after "applying to the study was restricted" lie, then we go after a "applying for a job was restricted" and then we go after that "without passport" condition.
  - thriftwy 3y ago
    You call me a liar, I tell you to bug off and live in your own commie utopia mental palace.