AW: [Cz-L] Restaurants in Czernowitz

Hardy,

yes, it is sometimes funny to read such posts, while they have a true core.

I can speak about the 60th and beginning of the 70th. During the 50th I was too
small to realize such things.

During the described time Czernowitz was not a closed city, not at all.
I could remember several cars with foreign plates. Sometimes we were guessing
from which countries they were.
At the beginning we thought that "D" was standing for "Diplomat", until we
discovered that the drivers always spoke German.
We saw sometimes "CH", "F", "USA", "CDN", "A", etc. Also cars from Poland,
Romania, Czechoslovakia, etc.

I remember very well two Czech cars driving like crazies trough Czernowitz on
August 20 (?), 1968.
Later same night I saw military vehicles driving the same direction through
Czernowitz.

By that time we knew from the radio what happened.

Foreign people always needed permissions to go through the country with the
description of the exact route. This was normal.

We could travel without any permission through the most of the USSR.
Some areas were closed to everybody without a special document, among them lots
of areas within few kilometers from the state border

and all areas of special military interest.

 
Our border to Romania was not a closed area till August 1968 - then a strip of
10 to 20 kilometers became a closed area for a while.

I know that after the WWII there was a time when travels were restricted and
"Propusk" was required. I never saw such a thing and never needed.

Alex

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> Von: HARDY BREIER <HARDY3_at_BEZEQINT.NET>
> An: Miriam Taylor <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu>; cornel fleming
><cornel.fleming_at_virgin.net>; Arthur Rindner <vonczernowitz_at_yahoo.com>;
>Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu
> Gesendet: Sonntag, den 18. Juli 2010, 17:07:15 Uhr
> Betreff: Re: [Cz-L] Restaurants in Czernowitz
>
> We have list members from Czernowitz who lived there during the discussed
> period.
> They must be laughing at our ignorance.
> Let us hear their voice !
> How was travel in the Soviet era ?
> Hardy
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