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.
Some Soviet people definitely went abroad though; a ferry from Leningrad docked quite near my house when I was a kid, and there were groups coming off that ferry. I always had the impression that they were travelling for work though, like people attending a conference or something like that. Never any children, only adults. Plus there were plenty of Soviet lorries arriving on the ferry - could be recognised because of the Cyrillic letters and unusual makes. It was not unusual to see Soviet people (Russians and Estonians) in Helsinki. They stood out a bit; different style of dressing (and ugly glasses!) I used the Helsinki - Leningrad train with my choir when we went to a choir festival and most of the people on the train were Russians, including families and lots of old people. Finland didn't allow any Soviet people to stay (defect) though.
I remember being told that Eastern European states at the time prevented people from leaving because they didn't want to lose qualified people whose education they had invested in... But that seemed false somehow, becuase they were not the only country offering free education to citizens!
But USSR sent thousands of Soviet citizens (Estonians) to Sweden. They had said they wanted to emigrate to Sweden.
Later Sweden found out why the USSR didn't mind losing them: They were criminals - some really nasty and violent ones; ended up running a mafia.
Plus LOTS of Russian Jews left for Israel, didn't they?
Hanna, в каком городе ты выросла? Я бы хотела узнать, куда эти корабли приплыли из СССР..
Вообще-то, нельзя лишать кого-либо прав ни за что, поскольку они ведут себя в соответствии с законами и в гармонии, как и те русские, о которых ты сказала.
А что сказать про ГУЛАГ? Зачем такие событие произошли при СССР, я до сих пор не могу понять....
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Другого объяснения существования ГУЛАГА никто не предложил. Неужели ты действительно думаешь, что людям просто хотелось поиздеваться друг над другом? Тогда такое объяснение всех устраивало. "Лес рубят - щепки летят." Была великая идея. Отдельные люди никого не интересовали.
В Гулаг отправляли так называемых врагов народа. Официально -- эти люди противились становлению советского государства и построению коммунизма. Власть их официально признавала врагами. За 20 лет правления Сталина было репрессировано около 3 миллионов человек, 760 тысяч было расстреляно.
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Вообще, выехать было можно, если до этого по службе ты не имел доступ к секретным материалам и не был судим. А засекречено было многое (вплоть до маршрутов миграции птиц). Но даже если ничего такого в твоей биографии не было, соблюдение всех бюрократических формальностей могло занимать годы. И всё могло сорваться в последний момент. Рекомендую посмотреть фильм "Интердевочка" с Еленой Яковлевой в главной роли. (Intergirl - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, Interdevochka (1989) - IMDb). Многое станет понятнее.
You could, theoretically move abroad, if you had not had a clearance to some state secrets (many things were classifies, i.e. bird migration routes) and you'd never been convicted before. But even if there had not been anything like that in your past, all bureaucratic formalities could take years and even then everything could fall apart in the last possible moment. I recommend watching Interdevochka (Intergirl). Many things will become clearer after watching it (see links above).
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Solzhenitsyn's books are not documentary and are full of exaggeration.
lemoni, good question about GULAG. I have another one for you. In 1946-49 Greece had a full-scale civil war, with thousands killed and imprisoned. How could it happen? Even worse, in 1967-74, Greece was ruled by a military junta, how could it happen in the middle of Europe in the end of XX century?
I notice you are bothered somehow by my question. I had no purpose to offend anyone here, plus my russian is not that good.
I didn't imply that what Solzhenitsin wrote in his books, is the absolute reality. I'm just asking questions, in order to find out what you believe, as you know the facts better than I do, but also in order to improve (if possible) my russian.
Anyhow, if you would like to discuss about Greece's history, we can start a new thread.
But just as a hint, I certainly DO NOT agree with what greeks have done especially over the past 100 years..... In many cases I can even say that I'm ashamed of what they 've done so far... You forgot to mention the catastrophe of Smyrna...![]()
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Я всё-таки бы хотела поблагодарить людей, которые дали мне понять какие разницы между СССР и Российской Федерацией.
Спасибо вам!![]()
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