On Oct 17, 2007, at 9:45, Nicole Gauthier wrote:
Vologda, being in a restricted area, you had to be invited to have the permission to travel there.
Is that what they told you? That the reason you had to have permission to travel there was that Vologda was in a "restricted area"? I guess they didn't want to sound *too* paranoid, in front of Westerners :)
In those days, everyone -- but *everyone*; not just foreigners, but natives as well -- had to get a "stamp", similar to the visa we need to move from one country to another, from the police station, to take a train from any place to any place. Russians who landed in Warsaw never could get over the fact that they could go to Kraków by simply buying a ticket at the train station... :)
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