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Fun Fact:
Soviet citizens didn’t have identity cards like in the West. Instead, they had internal and external passports.
The external passport, or “заграничный паспорт”, was a regular passport for foreign travel—well, if you ever got the chance to go abroad.
The internal passport, or “внутренний паспорт”, was more like an identity card, but with a bit of extra information.
Unlike Western ID cards, the internal passport held a lot more personal data. And it wasn’t just for identification—travel within the USSR was also restricted.
You couldn’t freely visit other parts of the Union. The internal passport included your place of residence, and being too far from that location could get you questioned by the police—even within the same city.
This internal-external passport system has been mostly abandoned by former Soviet republics, though a few still use similar systems today.
In modern Russia, the two-passport system still exists, but the internal passport is now more like a standard ID card. The name just carried over from Soviet times.

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