http://ltmurnau.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] ltmurnau.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] ltmurnau 2007-04-12 11:20 pm (UTC)

Soviet Russia had "internal passports" as well.

We are coming to resemble the rest of the world, in that suspicion of the motives and movements of one's own citizenry and arbitrary police powers are the norm.

How odd to think that up until about the start of the First World War, passports generally did not exist. If you were rich enough to travel, you did not pose a threat and therefore did not need "papers".

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