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TIL: Closed Cities are cities requiring special permission to visit, a phenomenon common in the former Soviet Union. Today Russia has the highest number of closed cities. (en.wikipedia.org)

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

A closed city or town is a settlement where travel or residency restrictions are applied so that specific authorization is required to visit or remain overnight.

The USA version of this is a sundown town. The reason is racism.

And because I respect you (and I’m not a monster) I altered the URL to point to the main article and not the mobile version. Ffs, people, just delete two characters.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Ehh not really. One is a cultural thing the other is a state issued piece of legal code.

Sundown towns are real but they're not really an american specific thing either. Tons of places on the planet will target you based on cultural shit. Closed Cities are some fascist ass shit

edit; a word

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

How did you draw that conclusion exactly?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

. . . How did they draw the conclusion that sunset towns are racist?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

I think the conclusion of comparing these two things

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Sundown towns are. Not sure what sunset town is. Nor is a sundown town a "closed city"... Anyone could go in, but certain folks might be lucky to be merely ran out.