Quote Originally Posted by Hanna View Post
I think it's totally unacceptable that regular people should have to "beg" the state for permission to go abroad!
The state belongs, to the people --- not the other way around! Who did they think they were, deciding who could or couldn't travel abroad? It's outrageous! I can see people really got fed up and angry about that.
Ha-ha. Your comment is very funny.

Quote Originally Posted by Hanna View Post
Some Soviet people definitely went abroad though [..] Never any children, only adults.
As a rule, the state was very reluctant to let single people without children go abroad. Think why.

Quote Originally Posted by Hanna View Post
Plus LOTS of Russian Jews left for Israel, didn't they?
After 1990 - yes. Before that, very few of them.