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From: cramer@kontron.UUCP (Clayton Cramer)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Slave labor built Siberian pipeline
Message-ID: <643@kontron.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 24-Mar-86 13:14:20 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar 24 13:14:20 1986
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> In article <12366@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> tedrick@ernie.berkeley.edu.UUCP (Tom Tedrick) writes:
> >>   IN any case, thh whole point here is that while the Soviets may take things
> >>to greater extremes, I cannot think of anything that the Soviets do, to their
> >>own citizens, as well as to other nations, that we ourselves in the US do not
> >>do, to some extent or another.
> >
> >Uh, how about leaving the country. As far as I know I can walk
> >across the border without any interference.
> >
> >(The people on the other side might not let me in though :-)
> 
> 	It has indeed happened that the US Government has revoked a
> citizen's passport because they wanted to prevent that citizen from
> carrying out his planned activities outside the country.
> 

That sort of abuse has been stopped (I hope).  But the whole population
isn't prevented from leaving.