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Comment author: cleonid 08 February 2015 10:42:41PM 1 point [-]

people could migrate easily, for a while,

There was almost no private housing in the soviet cities, and to move to another city you needed government authorization. After the collapse of the USSR there was a huge unemployment, and finding a job in the new place was nearly impossible. Ethnic tensions were also extremely high.