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by cyberax 448 days ago
Want to hear a joke? The USSR allowed people to travel on airplanes without showing any documents, except for some closed and border towns. This only changed towards the end of the 80-s.

Train tickets remained completely anonymous in the USSR up until its dissolution.

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Not surprised at all. Then again, ten yo me hadn't been introduced to the concept of propaganda yet even though it was all around me in retrospect.