Yeah Idk. I mean there is soo much on the Soviet passport. What comes up if you search?
Why should I search anything about Soviet passport? I had one and lived noticeable part of my life with it.
What makes that soviet passport so different from any other ID used in other countries for exactly same things? Is it its form of a small book, or its naming? Why USA driver license demanded even to buy a beer in a grocery is OK, but somehow Soviet passport that was used mostly same way is suddenly something awful? We didn't have many cars in USSR, so driver license was not a thing everybody had. Interesting, if a USA citizen do not have driver license, how he could buy a bottle of beer or whiskey? What ID would he show to the cashier to prove he is adult enough to buy it? Or driver license is mandatory for every American? Or he will be denied?
What Dutch International Institute of Social History could know about USSR at all? And for some reason I'm shure that this Kessler guy never even visited USSR. He began to lie from the first sentences. Soviet passport never was "restrictive" and there was no any "urban residence permit". And for completely unknown reason (it is sarcasm, meanwhile), I never heard that somebody from the West named German Anmeldung as "urban residence permit". Where could I find an articles about horrors of "urban residence permit" in modern Germany? Again, we didn't even need to show any ID to buy a ticket and travel around all country even by planes. Soviet people even don't need any ID to open a bank account - it named "bearer account". Tell me please, in what country could I open an anonymous bank account without any ID today?
As for all that ID thing - criminals have no problems with fake IDs, so IDs are shurely for identifying and surveling over normal people.
Why should I search anything about Soviet passport? I had one and lived noticeable part of my life with it.
What makes that soviet passport so different from any other ID used in other countries for exactly same things? Is it its form of a small book, or its naming? Why USA driver license demanded even to buy a beer in a grocery is OK, but somehow Soviet passport that was used mostly same way is suddenly something awful? We didn't have many cars in USSR, so driver license was not a thing everybody had. Interesting, if a USA citizen do not have driver license, how he could buy a bottle of beer or whiskey? What ID would he show to the cashier to prove he is adult enough to buy it? Or driver license is mandatory for every American? Or he will be denied?
What Dutch International Institute of Social History could know about USSR at all? And for some reason I'm shure that this Kessler guy never even visited USSR. He began to lie from the first sentences. Soviet passport never was "restrictive" and there was no any "urban residence permit". And for completely unknown reason (it is sarcasm, meanwhile), I never heard that somebody from the West named German Anmeldung as "urban residence permit". Where could I find an articles about horrors of "urban residence permit" in modern Germany? Again, we didn't even need to show any ID to buy a ticket and travel around all country even by planes. Soviet people even don't need any ID to open a bank account - it named "bearer account". Tell me please, in what country could I open an anonymous bank account without any ID today?
As for all that ID thing - criminals have no problems with fake IDs, so IDs are shurely for identifying and surveling over normal people.