@@UshankaShow Cool! Were Soviet citizens allowed to travel to Yugoslavia and China?

Probably only for business related trips.

My grandparents from west germany regularly drove (yes drove) to varna, Bulgaria in the 70's and 80's.

My sister dated a Bulgarian girl…. She was a B I T C H. Hardcore.

It was the fruits of our labor. From the 5 year plans of the 1930s.

Most european countries have that. They're just following their european neighbors in terms of culture and policy.

It's about what you get here in Denmark and no, we're not a Socialist Country :)

its not really 30 days as it includes also holidays during the month - just a full calendar month that you can be away, many European countries have more today, if you count working days and add holidays between them

Pfff we have that in capatilist Denmark 😂

times have changed indeed... still I'm a bit up north in Latvia so we don't have it as bad yet :D

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Probably, for a small segment of people with really good connections. My parents were and are simple workers and they did not get to go to Crimea even in Soviet times, or maybe they weren't interested, at least my mom is not a traveller... But most of my relatives worked in collective farms at that time and only 2 out of say 50 people got to Crimea. Granted, we have Jūrmala but still... None that I know went to Bulgaria or outside USSR. My dad drove a truck in collective farm and there was a competition for ''putyovka'' to Bulgaria and he won it, but for some reason some communist youth (komsomol) guy got it instead, which made him hate the system even more. He's probably one of the few simple workers of his age today who does not want the USSR to return, although we're Latvians and it's different than for Russians because we also consider USSR as a foreign regime and detrimental to our development. But when he gets into an argument with some passionate Soviet lover, he always says that it's bullshit to think that there was no corruption in Soviet Union, it was corrupt through and through. He really likes to travel and I can only imagine his anger at the age of 20-22 that he was basically stuck in Soviet Union. I'm glad that today I can show him some parts of the world, as I have money. And today my parents also earn enough to travel, but as I said my mom does not really like it

Stealing? hahaha goto gulag

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So?!

@@JohnKobaRuddy Sense of humour much? Geuss not, did you even watch the video?

I don't recall anybody mentioning Odessa as the vacation destination. Most workers going South lived in the cities and preferred to change scenery while vacationing. Crimea offered just that. But I bet people went to Odessa too, especially if you had relatives to stay with.

@@UshankaShow Yeah, I don't really know how it was in Soviet times. The city has suffered a lot, though, especially the taxi drivers, restaurants, hotels and the little food stands in Privoz and down along Otrada beach, since the Russian tourists stopped coming as from 2014. That year I flew there via Sheremetyevo (on a Sukhoi Superjet 100 - wonder what the enquiry will conclude, although it looks like pilot error) - two weeks later you couldn't do that trip, Ukrainian airspace was closed to Russian traffic.

I sincerely hope your doctor changed your prescription by now.

USHANKA SHOW My grandfather was from Leningrad he was born in 1929 and was a devout Orthodox Christian all his life that's the main reason why he went to Ethiopia. Atheist propaganda never worked on his generation lol. But yeah he enjoyed Ethiopia a lot, he said the people were very kind and loving, he said he felt bad for them though, their empire collapsed in 1974 because the king wouldn't die or step down. But yeah thanks for taking interest in my grandpa, I wish I asked him more about his life and his family.

In your second video you mentioned PUTEVKA which is a form of permit. That is what I was meaning.

@@orim298s This is not a permit, this is a ticket to a sanatorium, often free or partially paid by the union :)

@@UshankaShow Thanks for the answer! Also, if one did drive to their vacation destination and it took some days was it easy to find hotels to stay in overnight?

Thank you for the compliment! But I am not an American. I was born and grew up in the USSR