E. v. KUEHNELT-LEDDIHN
It is easier for a man from East Berlin to visit Nakhota, near Vladivostok, than to take a stroll on the Kurfürstendamm. But it is also much simpler for the hapless denizen of the German Democratic Republic to spend his vacation in Sotchi, on the slopes of the Caucasus, or in Moscow, than for a Soviet citizen to visit Potsdam or to ski in the Harz mountains. It takes the average Russian a full year’s bureaucratic preparation to visit most satellites—and a year and a half for a trip to Poland Kuehnelt-Leddihn
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