I once saw a bunch of Redditors completely unironically claiming that it was against the law to know compass directions and maps in the Soviet Union because they didn't want people knowing which direction West was and defecting.
Which is a good example of gray and black propaganda.
It is correct that utilities which would enable you to "flee" could be viewed as damaging in a criminal case against you if you had them in the vicinity of the border between the GDR and FRG. So it isn't illegal, however after reunification I know of plenty people who did protests in the free West that had trouble with police/courts for having navigation utilities on them.
A short list:
map of US bases
map of a city when there were anti nazi protests
map of the EZB (European Central Bank's proximity)
map of the border for people who were active in pro migration movements
map of the border region for people who wanted to leave the FRG
map of army locations
map of fascist locations in a city
map of industrial animal production/slaughtering centers.
Older relatives have told me that the USSR actually banned all singular possessive elements of grammar, in all languages. You could be jailed just for saying the phrase "my hair" rather than the State-sanctioned "our hair"
“Take care in Abbenay. Keep free. Power inheres in a center. You’re going to the center. I don’t know Sabul well; I know nothing against him; but keep this in mind; you will be his man.”
The singular forms of the possessive pronoun in Pravic were used mostly for emphasis; idiom avoided them. Little children might say “my mother,” but very soon they learned to say “the mother.” Instead of “my hand hurts,” it was “the hand hurts me,” and so on; to say “this one is mine and that’s yours” in Pravic, one said, “I use this one and you use that.” Mitis’s statement, “You will be his man,” had a strange sound to it. Shevek looked at her blankly.
At this point they are just making shit up.
I once saw a bunch of Redditors completely unironically claiming that it was against the law to know compass directions and maps in the Soviet Union because they didn't want people knowing which direction West was and defecting.
Soviet pilots didn't even have a gimbal. They didn't even have seats. Just slav squatting in the cockpit.
just flapping their arms really hard
Yelling "caw caw" but in Cyrillic
Which is a good example of gray and black propaganda.
It is correct that utilities which would enable you to "flee" could be viewed as damaging in a criminal case against you if you had them in the vicinity of the border between the GDR and FRG. So it isn't illegal, however after reunification I know of plenty people who did protests in the free West that had trouble with police/courts for having navigation utilities on them.
A short list:
The plague of Yeonmi Parkism is spreading at an uncontrollable rate
Older relatives have told me that the USSR actually banned all singular possessive elements of grammar, in all languages. You could be jailed just for saying the phrase "my hair" rather than the State-sanctioned "our hair"
As a balding man, state ownership of all hair does sound appealing.
Ah, but why do you think Lenin was bald? Stalin took all of his hair for himself
"communism no food" got old. now it's "communism too much gas."
When the lies about the USSR's forced scarcity feel too much like contemporary capitalism, the lies about the USSR's forced abundance begin.
I would like some forced abundance actually. Oh no giving me cheap access to goods and high wages whatever will I do
Communism too much food
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Implying there was a point they weren't just making shit up.