By the end of the 19th century, all Russian people had residence permits recorded at local police precincts. They were not allowed to leave their place of residence for more than six months at a time. The Bolsheviks used this in their anti-Tsarist propaganda. In 1903, Lenin wrote: “The Social Democrats demand complete freedom of movement and trade for the people – to destroy the passports… The Russian muzhik is still so enslaved by officials that he cannot freely move to the city, nor can he freely go to new lands. Isn't this serfdom? Isn't this an oppression of the people?”
Note that while Lenin might have said that in 1903, that was a decade and a half before the October Revolution, and Russia and the USSR actually did have internal passports. According to the pedophiles at Wikipedia it was only abolished in 1997. It's easy to criticize a regime you're trying to overthrow and replace with something a thousand times worse.
The USSR also had multiple "secret cities", usually tied to strategic interests like nuclear research, submarine bases, etc., with extremely strict border controls. https://passportsymphony.com/closed-russian-cities/
One of the Lenin's "campaign" platforms was the abolition of domestic passports.
This is actually quite interesting.
In South Africa, the domestic passport or "dompas" was an integral part of the Apartheid system.
It would be ironic seeing the communist-inspired ANC party implement different versions of the same passports they fought so hard to eradicate.
Well of course.
If they didn't do that, he would have unrestricted movement.
Ok... So I agree with Lenin on that much, then...
I mean, look, Lenin did terrible shit, and spawned terrible shit, but the Empire at the time was no better (as that makes very apparent), so... Eh.
Lenin wins on that one, at least, in my book. Not literally every single thing he proposed/did was bad, after all, lol.
Note that while Lenin might have said that in 1903, that was a decade and a half before the October Revolution, and Russia and the USSR actually did have internal passports. According to the pedophiles at Wikipedia it was only abolished in 1997. It's easy to criticize a regime you're trying to overthrow and replace with something a thousand times worse.
The USSR also had multiple "secret cities", usually tied to strategic interests like nuclear research, submarine bases, etc., with extremely strict border controls. https://passportsymphony.com/closed-russian-cities/
In fact the ultimate outcome of the liberal democrat establishment oppression may be global communist revolution, and we know what that leads to.