In the Soviet Union everyone needed to obtain a "propuska" (travel permit)
to go anywhere in the country. Going abroad was completely out of the
question.
Mimi
On 7/18/10 8:35 AM, "cornel fleming" <cornel.fleming_at_virgin.net> wrote:
> HI Arthur! There must have been different criteria applied...we had no
> difficulty in getting the OK via Intourist in London.Maybe they regarded you
> as a superspy??? But you are correct re internal travel...some of the people
> we met at the time in Czernowitz told us they had to get travel permission to
> go within the USSR. Cornel
>
es, I forgot, I believe the reason that I did not get permission to visit
> Czernowitz was, that the city was a closed city.
> Why? ich weishnit.
>
> Arthur
>
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