what gets me the most is that you needed a visa to travel within the bloc. hell, you needed papers to travel within the country, for the most part. you couldn’t just leave and move to a different part of the nation, you needed to justify it to the government. a common extension of punishment during the Cold War was that Dissidents would be released from labor camps then denied papers to travel home, denied work, be labeled as a social parasite, then get sent back to the camps. that restriction of freedom is utterly alien to me, and even before i found out about Dablice i thought it was terrible there. now i am so thoroughly disgusted i can’t imagine how anyone supporting that system there ever thought they were on the right side of history.
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