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Help me debunk 'If the Soviet Union was so great, how come people wanted to leave? How come they had to build a wall to keep people in?' (hexbear.net)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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How debunk this?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

No need to. It was a debilitated zone. It probably sucked there alot of the time. What any number of people might want to do doesn't show what action was correct or just or whatever. Why does the US not let people leave without papers? Just how things are done mostly.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

US doesn't require exit visas afaik, only a few countries do.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Depends on where you are going. They do have the power to not let you leave. So maybe I put it imprecisly