Why Russians have TWO Passports!
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Trying out CZcams shorts, will going to be making videos on short trivia about Russia here. In today's video we'll talk about why all Russians have two passports instead of one. It's actually quite simple. Like and sub for more thx xoxo
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I still have my Soviet passport - obviously useless, but a part of history nonetheless.
Helps with security checks with the US government, too.
Shiii that’s cool
It is a cool thing to keep, I keep a binder of my events throughout my life places ive been and achievements and awards and certificates I have received!
so you serve the Soviet Union?
I have a 20 markka banknote from 1945. Despite crazy inflation, almost the same value in euros.
So pretty much the "internal passport" is just an ID card shaped like a passport
That's basically it!
If ID card also has information about your martial status and registration (living) address then yes.
@@SuperAndrey152 well yeah my country has both of them in the card, and also religion for some reason
@@SuperAndrey152 my country has both, and also the profession, on older IDs
@@SamSam-qk5zr Italian?
It's amazing to see how NFKRZ has grown over the years.
Dude went from "ur mom gay" to educating us on Russian passports
Yes, I think he should ditch the "NFKRZ" tag and go with something more mature--like his actual name.
@@frankb1 hell no
@@frankb1 wtf are u on brah
from nobody can touch my swag to passport info
Interesting how Soviet influence can be still be seen in Russia 30 years later, it really shows how big of an impact the Soviets had on Russian culture.
It was the second most powerful empire to ever exist (after USA)
@@Magpie1701 And now it isn't. Because total socialism didn't work.
69 years of hell can't be undone with 30 years of a slightly lower circle of hell
@@Karl-sq5ng Under socialism it was. Under capitalism (now) it isn't. Not sure whether that implies socialism doesn't work. I think it implies the opposite.
But if you think about it 30 years is a relatively short period in history and there are lots of Russians today who grew up in the Soviet Union so it makes sense that we're still influenced by it, if you look at our education system it's also similar in some ways just because that's how they did things back then. But that's also changing with innovations and stuff
Well, there you have it guys. This is the real reason Putin is mad at Ukraine.
No shit, Putin said it himself
/s
oh no, id cards!!!
0:35 Kazakhstan also switched from USSR internal passports to Kazakh ID cards back in 1994. Kazakhstan's citizens can use these ID cards not only domestically, but also to travel abroad to Russia, Kyrgyzstan, and Albania
But not Vanuatu? Damn…
Albania?
Just say a number of countries
Mordor?
@@andanssas You understand that J.R.R.Tolkien wrote fiction? Like fairy tales? Make-believe, like? And he had already been dead for almost twenty years when Kazakhstan became a country?
It makes sense that we now have a separate "foreign passport" as a relic of the USSR considering that most Soviet people couldn't travel abroad, glad they're getting rid of it. passports are so fragile yet you need them everywhere smh
It’s not a relic of USSR, almost every country has a separate passport for traveling abroad. It’s because international passports have to be made to the same standard while internal passport can be a piece of paper or an ID card
They could but between the satellite countries. And they also had to apply for a visa. Only those with special privileges could travel outside of the ussr.
@@Nikita13337 well our internal passports are quite different compared to an id, we have a bunch of other info there and we still have place of registration
@@nanevak I know I'm Russian lol that's why I said Soviet people since most of them never got to leave the USSR. Hell even going to Moscow or something was quite problematic according to what I've been told by people from my hometown
@@Belle-zq3xc the fact that we have registration info in internal passport still doesn’t make having a separate international passport a unique Russian thing
And now with covid passport you gonna have 3, lol.
it actually would just become a new stamp or thing added to existing ones, people act like this disease passport is a thing but there used to be travel documents in many countries like France that you had to provide at the border to prove you've been immunized against certain diseases. I know for a fact starting in the mid-to-late 1920s, France required you to have separate documentation and a stamp on your passport proving you had the Tuberculosis vaccine.
I know you specifically might not be up in a roar about it, but I just like spreading this little fact to people who bring it up because I'm surprised actually how few people know this when it's actually been the norm for over 100 years.
@@Boomstickfan495 you must be fun at parties
@@xSpiiXeL you must be boring at parties
@@xSpiiXeL Fun facts are fun, no reason to insult anyone
@@tom_stephen Tom you must be a huge snowflake if that was an insult to you.
Here in Portugal, 1 year after the republican revolution, in 1911, an "Identity paper" was introduced and was like a laminated sheet to prove your identity internally. Several iterations of this existed until 2008 when Portugal introduced a citizenship card. This new card is valid anywhere within the EU and some associated countries like Andorra, Bosnia, Montenegro, Iceland, Norway, etc.
For travel outside these countries, a passport is required.
Obrigado José Sócrates, obrigado meu amigo
PORTUGAL, CARALHO! :)
Yea, "National Identity card" I have a Norwegian one which i use in all of EU/EEA and Schengen as well as the balkan countries Bosnia, serbia & montenegro
@@dinis8271 Great song, not gonna lie.
In Azerbaijan, we switched to ID cards instead of internal passports back in 2005 😅
In Lithuania we have both ID card and passport, with ID card you can travel around European Union and with passport to other countries
same here in Estonia, but thats prob normal thing in majority of post communist countries especcialy those have all im sure that are in EU, though i cannot say that with certain whats in central asia
I think the majority of european countries has this by now. We at least have it in Norway.
Papieren bitte. The german influence is strong
Same in France
@@mixermaster10 I don't know if it's only a post Soviet thing , because we have it here in France, and as a belarusian living here I don't think we have an ID system in Belarus, only a passport
In Moldova, like in Ukraine we also use ID cards instead of the internal passport, in fact didn’t even know people in Russia and other post-soviet states use 2 passports
Europe got ID Schengen and passprt. Personally I own only Schengen's.
Here in Latvia, we had only passports after the regaining of independence just like Estonia, Lithuania we also implemented the passport and ID card that can be used together with web services.
As a Russian I was so confused when I first learned that many Americans don't have a passport, I was like how do they do anything 😲 but then I read more about it and realized that many Russians don't have "foreign passports" the same way that Americans don't because they don't travel abroad
Romania here - no passport here since I can travel anywhere in EU with ID card and also extremely cheap. For example I can go to Barcelona with 20 Euros; in fact it's more expensive the Taxi and the Train to Otopeni/Henry Coanda airport than the trip to Barcelona. Now, in COVID times its difficult since I have to stay 14 days in quarantine when I get back, but other than that there is no problem whatsoever. Also, if you eat normal food from local places you can have a 7 day trip to Barcelona and back with as less as 400 Euros which is about the same money I earn in 7 days (so if I take a vacation from work - I have the right to about 31 days a year - its even steven). 20 degrees today in Barcelona so it's ok in terms of temperature - Bucharest 0 degrees today and raising to 12 this Saturday.
Long story short - there's no need for a passport since EU has so many places to go and the civilization is unparalleled by any other place in the world (maybe Japan?).
@@MrShushu2oo that's so convenient! I've always loved and been jealous of the EU because of that haha it's so cool how you can just go to Spain or Germany or whatever, all so diverse and interesting, it provides such an amazing opportunity for cultural exchange. I wish Russia had a friendlier foreign policy, I bet we'd have visaless relationships with many more countries
@@Belle-zq3xc I think extending the EU to Russia and then eventually to all post-Soviet countries would be really cool.
@@gamermapper that would be the dream haha hopefully it happens one day! I have a feeling it will, it would also really boost domestic tourism in all those countries
@@Belle-zq3xc Eurasian union, new greater democratic decentralised socialist USSR
Because Russia is so big, to move from European part to its Asian part and vice versa, requires dual passport.
You might want to stop smoking whatever you're smoking.
Nice, we used to have those in Argentina, but we stopped using them like in 2010 or so
argentina argenpeena
If I understand you aright, sounds like a victory for freedom in Argentina. Yay Argentina!
Even Pope Francis had one as Jorge Bergoglio!
@@bigscarysteve
It was never used like a Soviet-style Internal Passport, it was just a regular identity card
The new card system still uses the same name and is basically the same, but less chunky
@@bigscarysteve It wasn't an internal passport but the regular id. It was like a book because it had pages to fill with stuff like marriages, changes of legal address or every time you voted. Then we switched to an identity card.
Одновременно у тебя может быть 3 РФ паспорта: 1.внутренний 2.загран 3.загран с биометрией (да,да именно 2 заграна одновременно можно иметь и получать в них разные визы, если один из них без биометрии, а второй с биометрией).
в украине можно иметь два с биометрией)
Вроде можно два биометрических иметь. Второй паспорт обязан быть биометрическим, а каким есть первый (с биометрией либо без) - без разницы.
Можно иметь 2 с биометрией, без беометрии только 1 из 2
@@Petero3 нет, если у тебя 2 заграна, то оба должны быть биометрические, если у тебя до получения был действующий обычный, то нужно произвести сначала замену обычного на био, затем получать второй.
@@user-ff8oy8wl5l какой смысл от двух одинаковых паспортов… глупость какая то
Actually, Belarus uses one passport from the 1996, and AFAIK Russia and Ukraine were the only ones that preserved this system
Wtf... But it's still kinda fun
yeah i was shocked when i visited family in belarus, and they kept saying passport, and i didnt understand at first, only to realise passport is also used what i would use as an id card
@@rainbows5232 what? where do you live that doesn't have a passport?
@@marekss lol i didnt say we dont have a passport. im from israel, you have an id card, wich is a must, but you not obligated to own a passport unless you travel abroad, a passport is only for traveling, and id card is seperate. so when i visited family in belarus and we needed to go somewhere where you needed to bring some sort of identification, i didnt understand at first why my family memebers said they need their passports, because i didnt know they use their passport as id as well
Even having a thought of "internal passport" in my multi-ethnic country would cause a massive riot.
@Laughing Hyena, ... As well it should
@@dsmj7389 why? It's basically an ID what's wrong with that?
0:32 Belarus only has 1 passport. They are moving to ID-card from September 2021
"Паспорт гражданина Республики Беларусь - удостоверяющий личность документ, выдаваемый гражданам Республики Беларусь для внутреннего пользования и для осуществления поездок за границу. До 1 сентября 2021 года в Белоруссии основным документом, удостоверяющим личность являлся паспорт гражданина Республики Беларусь образца 1996 года, действовавший как для внутреннего пользования так и для выезда за границу. 1 сентября 2021 года был введены в обращение документы нового образца ID-карта (для внутреннего пользования) и биометрический паспорт (для выезда за рубеж). При этом получение ID-карты и биометрического паспорта не является обязательным, паспорт образца 1996 года является действующим (в том числе и для выезда за границу) до истечения указанного в них срока. По состоянию на ноябрь 2021 года есть возможность выбора, какой документ получать - паспорт образца 1996 года или ID-карту и биометрический паспорт (при необходимости). "
Белорусы вообще во многих вещах, связанных с бюрократией (в хорошем смысле. Да, у бюрократии есть хорошие смыслы, если она работает) всегда обгоняли многих. Как же жаль, что начался весь этот неловкий цирк с цеплянием за трон...
Well it's 2024 now. Guess that project was put on hold.
😂 like everything in Russia
If I'm not mistaken Moldova doesn't have internal passports too, we use "Buletins", basically ID's for anyone older than 14.
Bruh, in Kazakhstan we went with the whole id system pretty much right after the fall. The Russian internal passport is a pretty weird gimmick tbh
yes and this is why we are getting rid of this but it takes time since Russia is still ruled by people born and raised in the soviet union
@@odyrus I agree, but also I think Russia sometimes wants do something different from the rest of the world just like America. Some of it is pride some of its political
@EE DR 1) Separate system of measurement which everyone knows is inferior, but keeps using anyway
2) Complaining about the downfalls of fully privatised healthcare and envying Europe in this regard, but not fixing the problem
A lot of other, very similarly detrimental things that the USA keeps up just because of some backwards national pride idea that is burned into your subconscious
That internal passport was used to monitor soviet people's movement back then. If you want to go from Moscow to st Petersburg, you would need that passport back then to do that. Thats why there's a line in the movie the red october where one soviet guy was curious about US because they don't need a passport just to go to another state.
The internal passport looks cool tho
But it doesn't fit in a wallet
@@user-do5zk6jh1k that and if it did is big an bulky but still looks cool tho
We used to have something similar in Poland. It was an ID that looked like a smaller passport. 20 years ago, plastic ID cards started replacing the old, paper ones.
And thank God it did, it'd be a nightmare to have to carry all this library of papers around. I don't even take my passport when traveling within Shenghen, even though most of my coworkers do, as if they expected Poland might get ejected from it mid-flight or something. You might easily end up misplacing it somewhere while abroad and that's going to be by far a bigger problem than the nonexistent risk that your ID alone might not suffice anywhere in the Union and plenty of places beyond (it's 100% sufficient throughout most of the Western Balkans and even Turkey).
What you had before is always replaced by something made of plastic.
dude, we're european...
whole europeans are the same: we had paper, still got a paper ID @@SharonPiano8
"Pretty much anyone in the world has to get a passport to travel to foreign countries…"
* Laughs in EU *
*laughs in Schengen
No such thing as "foreign country" inside the Schengen zone.
@@dvv18 Schengen zone is made of 33 separated countries, each with its own history, language, culture, politics, and some of them have with different money. They are (for each other) foreign country
@@marcodamasio Who cares. For travel purposes, it's one and the same bureaucratic space.
@@dvv18 well, about 420 million people care. And the words "foreign country" don't mean "places where you need to show a passport to enter". They mean "places with history, language, culture, politics"
So basically an ID but not in card form? Probably some info on each would be different
Now u got 0
B b b burn
In Hungary we also used to have this book shaped ID though it was not called passport. In the old socialist regime even your workplace was in it. We changed it to a card about 20 years ago, but some old people still have the old ID book, because it was issued to them without expiration.
But additionally, we used to have two different passports as well - one for socialist countries and another for Western countries. For Western countries you could receive a travel permit only every 3 years. You could travel to friendly socialist countries every year.
I thought travel in the Soviet Union was restricted and that's why you had two passports.
Yes, that is why. Foreign travel during soviet times (at least to Western countries) was only really an option for people with links to the party, such as diplomats, politicians, etc, and hence they had access to the foreign passport. The internal passport was used for travel within the Soviet Union because (I could be wrong here) regular people didn't exactly have freedom of movement within the Soviet Union, and hence had to show their internal passports when crossing into other republics and such.
@@lifeofabronovich7792 The assumption was travelling inside SSR, like from Wladiwostok to Krim, needed permission or you had checkpoints.
POV MEXICO: we have 2 passports to 😂
Ukraine's not the first, fyi. As a Kazakhstani citizen, I always used to get so confused talking to Russians about this, because we had the national ID system introduced in mid-90's. Interesting insight!
А куда на этой карточке адрес прописки печатают? У нас ведь в России все организации начиная с чиновников и банков требуют везде указывать и подтверждать адрес регистрации
@@424dsfdsfdsfs У нас в Кыргызстане ID карты с чипами. Когда меняешь прописку или статус о браке, данные чипа тоже обновляют. Данные чипа можно увидеть с помощью NFC смартфона.
I live in Ukraine but despite having an ID-card I still have the pre-2016 passport that was still useful to me since it has birth information.
There is only one pasport in Belarus.
I remember the locals showing their passports to the conductors to check their names when they got on a long distance train and remember thinking why Russians carry their passports everywhere like that or what. Now I understand why.
Also, airports. A "foreign" passport works for this purpose, too, BTW.
In the UK, most people use a trainee driver's licence as an ID
Most shops only accept a Full Drivers licence, not a provisional.
Latvia also doesn't have the internal passport. We have had ID cards for year's.
I imagine the rest of the Baltics don't use them anymore either, being in the EU and Schengen and all
Ну и что хорошего? Менять его постоянно. В РФ паспорт это по сути удостоверение личности, но менять его нужно всего два раза в жизни.
@@Ratmir9 а чего плохого? менять раз в 10 лет как и паспорт (раньше было 5), новая ID karte стоит например 15 евро (месяц назад получал) помещается в кошелек, всегда с собой и с ней постоянно без паспорта путешествую по Европе. При потере, также за неделю новую можно сделать. У бабули моей ID карты нет, но паспорт без срока годности, может айдишка также былабы :) в Латвии еще выпускают по самым последним технологиям защиты, красивые карты уже как 2 года точно. Летал в Ирландию 3 недели назад, там в аеропорту дама на паспортном контроле позвала коллег посмотреть на мою ID карту, т.к. таких почему-то не встречала и у них все еще планируют обновить на такие в будующем.
one passport for trolling, one for normal stuff
Roman, I hope now that you have obtained residency in Portugal that you will be able to speak more openly about Russia and Putin.
Before even watching the video I knew it had smth to with the Soviets. Though my first guess would have been that the second passport was used to travel to the more autonomous republics of the federation.
extremly interesting. Just curious what is your opinion of the memorial museum closing and how politics are moving in russia.
*Comrade, you need buy a soviet pass right now! For 300 rub*
In New Zealand we use our IDs for domestic travel and passports for overseas travel.
according to the passport index we have the 3rd (tied between 7 other countries) best passport. its actually good enough to get me to Ukraine but not Russia lol
Are you officially required to carry it all the time when you're out of home?
No. But they can deny selling or serving alcohol to you. And you better not look like a Gastarbeiter from places due south.
@@thedamntrain I dunno what you're talking about. It's the law in a bunch of countries.
"Internal passport" is completely equal to "ID card" in other countries (or a driver's license in the United States) and is used for exactly the same things. For example, to confirm age when buying spirits.
It just looks "vintage" or "old fashioned". There is no break in the template here, all countries live in about the same way. They just have a card, not a little book. There is even a certain trick in the fact that your universal document is not made in the form factor of a discount card from a plumbing store, but in a pretentious form. The only thing is complete idiocy that such a passport was not originally made waterproof. It is so stupid. But now it is too late to remake them for the country, a new step is slowly approaching, where everything will be electronic.
A plastic ID card like a driver's license is more convenient than a paper book that can't fit in a wallet.
in the USA there is no requirement to have a photo ID. It is helpful, but lots of people don't have one.
@@marsianer4842 If the US police ask for ID they will get it before your let go.
Imagine a cop asking for ID and a person responds with
- "I do not have any"
and the police comes back with
-" That's ok , we believe you , you can go on your merry way".
Maybe on Fasty Island.
UK has no ID card or equivalent. You have a passport or nothing.
Georgia also use ID card instead of pasport
Loving the shaggy do look
Basically, in the US the driver's license suffices as the ID, there is no National ID (yet), but if you just need an ID (and to vote, one that proves citizenship is required. ok that is needed for the voter registration process to the nit pickers), in most states it ends up looking a lot like a drivers license...
What if somebody dosen't have a drivers license?
@@andrejmarkovic1816 you can get a physical ID that isn't a drivers license it's $30 at the dmv
vOtEr Id Is RaCiSt
California ID doesn't,t mean citizenship
It means you voteDemocrat.
Each US state issues driver licenses and ID cards. These are not for crossing international borders. The US government issues passports (regular, diplomatic, etc) for international borders, as well as border crossing ID cards for crossing land borders to Mexico, Canada, and cruises, though they recommend getting a passport in case it's required or you need to fly home on the same trip.
In Lithuania we do have the same thing as in Ukraine: one passport and ID card.
The Ukraine
@@user-se9nm1tl9l??? Without "the". You don't know English? :)
Oke, East-Pole.
@@user-sl3fv8tn9u it's actually with the. Just like the Netherlands - the Ukraine. Read some history books and come back.
@@user-se9nm1tl9l "The Ukraine" is incorrect both grammatically and politically, says Oksana Kyzyma of the Embassy of Ukraine in London.
"Ukraine is both the conventional short and long name of the country," she says. "This name is stated in the Ukrainian Declaration of Independence and Constitution."
The use of the article relates to the time before independence in 1991, when Ukraine was a republic of the Soviet Union known as the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, she says. Since then, it should be merely Ukraine.
According to several authoritative sources, such as the CIA World Factbook, the Times Comprehensive Atlas of the World and the US Department of State, only two countries, The Bahamas and The Gambia, should officially be referred to with the article.
The two Congos are officially Democratic Republic of the Congo and Republic of the Congo. And the longer, official name for Netherlands is Kingdom of the Netherlands.
I see you don't know history and you are lazy to check facts. Good bye Russian troll with Belarusian flag near nickname.
Latvia has ID cards too!
One passport is a id card . Lol.
Interesting why don't you upload this to tiktok?
Im from belarus and we have one passport. Been abroad and no need to have second one
its uncomfortable, in my country an id card is the size of a credit card, you can put it anywhere, no need to carry around a whole passport
This information was classified, comrade.
I'm from Latvia (a post-Soviet country), and we switched to ID cards a LONG time ago because of EU laws, and I'm not a fan of them. It just feels better holding an actual passport in my hands than a plastic card.
Yugoslavia had the same system before: one federal passport for traveling abroad and one state passport for traveling inside yugoslavia. When Yugoslavia collapsed, these regional/state passports became national passport of Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, etc.
Alright, that was succinct. Thank you.
Passport number 1 = go to gulag
Passport number 2 = come to gulag
Lithuania also have ID cards
Okay seriously in Moldova we've had an ID card since like 20 years ago. We got rid of the second passport almost immediately, you always forget about Moldova why the hate Man?
"Papers, please."
*Nostalgia Intensifies*
As a russian i can confirm that we indeed have two.
And of course the UK instead of having an ID card just uses the Driver's License,
Good on Ukraine on getting rid of the internal passport and adopting a national ID card. Another example of how Ukraine is shedding its Soviet past. The Baltic States did this shortly after they regained their independence in 1990/91. The internal passport system wasn't invented by the Soviets. Russia had internal passports during the Russian Empire. The internal passports were introduced after serfdom was abolished in 1861 and restricted where people could go to (Guberniya, city, etc.) and for how long (6 months, 1 year, 2 years, etc.). Both Tsarist and Soviet authorities had the internal passport system to control people from moving from one part of the country to another part of the country. In a normal country; people have every right to move from one part of the country to another part of the country without the need of an internal passport. Think of the migration of Americans from the East coast to the Mid-West and and the West coast in 19th century. Or African-Americans leaving the South in the beginning of the 20th century to the North and West Coast. Something like that could never happen in Tsarist or Soviet Russia.
Meanwhile in modern-day mainland China I think their citizens are denied some social services e.g. higher public education, lower priority for admission into universities in the area if they're residing in a part of the country they aren't born in e.g. migrant workers from villages working in cities, otherwise with the number of people attracted to work in cities I guess their social services might be overloaded. This is known as the "household residency/registration" system (户籍/口)
And now Russian is murdering Ukrainians
Papers please
Those people that say id cards are not necessary when you have a driver's license need to rethink a bit more.
Not everyone is a driver (too young or too old, for example) or has to be a driver, but everyone need in certain moments to validate citizenship among other things.
And by the way, modern id cards (chip included) have much more functionality, like being a portable digital certificate for example.
It should be the other way around. I do not understand the need for a driver's license when its data could be included inside an id card. Or just identify by it and the cops could check the databases. If administrations were efficient, which is a big if of course.
Ah Estonia, I envy how advanced you are in digitalizing administrations (e-residence, etc)
A plastic ID card like a driver's license is more convenient than a paper book that can't fit in a wallet.
I'm pretty sure it's the same in germany. We have the internal passport called Ausweis as well as the Reisepass to travel around the world.
unser personalausweis ist die id card von der roman spricht
@@eftalanquest Genau
But it's not called a passport. Russia is the only country who calls documents who are not for international travel passports.
@@gamermapper Well, they in fact call it "паспорт", but I see where your confusion comes from.
I believe China, North Korea, and Russia are the only countries that still use a form of the internal passport. Also, as many others are saying, Russia and Ukraine were the only Post-Soviet countries to continue using the internal passport.
@सूर्य भण्डारी isn't aadhar more like a regular ID card though rather than an internal passport?
@सूर्य भण्डारी Wow, that's terrible. My grandparents live in India so I knew the situation there was bad, but I didn't know it was that bad.
*coff coff* ID cards should be upgrade for Schengen use, they ARE internal passports.
What is important to add that in USSR times one was not always perimeted.to travel inside USSR as USSR citizen, but one had to get approval.
It is important to add that Roman's parents were born when there were no restrictions to travel already unless:
1. You are specifically banned from traveling by the authorities - if you're a convict; waiting for you day in court; or an Andrei Sakharov type of guy.
2. You want to travel to a restricted area like some border or otherwise designated state security areas - you needed to be a local resident or have a special permission to do that.
It's got nothing to do with having an "internal passport" vs. an ID card though.
What the fuck NFKRZ giga chadded up
We have internal passports in the US as well. They are called drivers licenses.
Finally--an intelligent comment on this thread!
Excuse me, but do all americans have Drivers Licenses? I never fully understanded how it works in the US, don't you guys have an ID card?
@@WILLIAN_1424 You mean like a national ID card? No.
According to Google 89% of adult Americans have a drivers license. A big chunk of that 11% who don't are too old to drive or have had their license revoked for driving drunk or some other reason.
@@RandomDudeOne interesting, seems actually much better than having a national ID. I've read in another comment that you can use any document with a photo and some basic information as an identification, that seems very practical. Anyway, thanks for the info.
When you said "One of the few countries that actually stepped away from it is..." I instantly thought it had to be Ukraine. Since they have a problem with Russia it seems they are trying to do everything possible to differentiate themselves from that country.
Two months later and you can probably see why.
one passport for go to the russian , and another passport for gulag
The internal passport was needed in the USSR to travel and settle between the republics, because there was no freedom to travel and live wherever you wanted. To understand this, it's like having an internal passport to cross state borders in the US and travel between them.
No.
In their defense a little, there was never really anywhere to move to in the traditional sense.
0:26 omg, I thought it was YOUR PHOTO wtf 🤣
I'm very suspicious of a government that requires a passport for internal travel.
So this is where that hunt for red October scene comes from
In sweden we just use our drivers license as an ID card
i love how you just fit the whole russian flag on the screen stretched out hahaha
Romania had a shitty passport like "identity book", it changed it to identity card over 10 years ago
Russia had between 2013 - 2016 the Universal electronic card универсальная электронная карта . I do not understand why they cancelled this project maybe Roman can give us some details.
In Czech we also had this booklet. Police made sure you have employment stamp in it or else jail :)
Back in the past every country had a booklet, but those booklets are still not internal passports, there were I.Ds (občanské průkazy) They were never called passports, like Roman's is. Internal passports further restrict/ed where you could travel or live within the country itself. Look up I.D.s or Driver's Licenses from USA or France from the 1950s, 1970s etc. International Drivers licenses are still issued as small booklets. Modern Czechia also never had this form of I.D., laminated cards replaced the plastic foils in 1993.
Not only Ukraine uses ID cards, post-soviet countries such as Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia has ID cards since they entered to European Union :)
We didn't have this internal passport before EU also didn't have it before ID card was introduced. I'm pretty sure all Baltic states switched to regular passport right after the collapse of SU.
@@artisriga hey, braliuks, I am just talking about the plastic ID card, not about internal passport :)
Strange world. I was randomly researching passports over the last hour. Pulled up YT and bam.
Because, history.
In Hungary during the Soviet occupation, Hungarian people also had 2 passports, a red and blue. Red was the more common because with that, you could travel within the Warsaw Pact countries for 30 days each visit, meanwhile blue was the overall more precious passport, because if you were in the possession of a blue passport, you were able to visit Western countries, so either you had connections to the Communist Party or you were lucky. Because of the whole communism bs, most of the time the authorities didn't allow you to have a blue passport. In the 80s however, they were more permissive about the iron curtain, and that's why East Germans could meet with West Germans in Hungary. Obviously after communism, it's a lot easier to travel and live in other countries, for instance i don't even have a passport because i don't need within the EU.
Can confirm your last statement, I'm American and crossing borders within the Schengen area when I visited Europe felt a lot like crossing state lines back home - pretty much there's just a sign saying like "Now entering so and so country" and that was it. I think we were asked to show our passports to a cop when entering Czechia and we also had some formalities when entering Switzerland (probably because they're part of Schengen but not the EU), but that was kind of it.
I will never understand bureaucrats and their love for outdated and extremely inconvenient systems.
Russia has this since the Tsarist times, it was a good control method, expecially in the Soviet Union were you could be arrested and sent to gulag for not carrying it.
@@WILLIAN_1424 I'm still waiting on that 400 page thesis about why is this good for the player.
@@dylives7667 it's not, welcome to the Soviet Union! lol
QR code behind the ear could be next. 1 ear for foreign travel, the other for internal travel lol
I thounght that itnernal password are needed for eventual acces to the clesed cities.
Not more than you need your driver's license to access Area 51.
*insert yellow passport joke here*
The “internal passport” system would make more sense if you had a different one in each of the republics like Tuva or Buryatia
Armenia and Georgia were using ID cards for the long time now. I am sure baltic states are doing it as well, add Ukraine and it is already 6 former USSR states.
After reading the comments it turned out the Russia is pretty much the only one taking into account that in Belorus ussr still stands strong
actually, in Belarus there is only one passport lol
Latvija: "Ti ahujel?"
Now when is the US going to have one standardized ID card instead of 100 different driver’s licenses and state ID cards?!
When the Dems fuck up the Constitution completely.
Fucking two passports and none of them are accepted to leave this damn country xD
Fun fact: no.
Over 423 million people don't need any passport to travel to foreign countries and I am one of those lucky one!
In republic of Moldova (ex-soviet country) the id card was introduced in 1996.
I haven't seen a video off'a you in YEARS holy SHIT you look so DIFFERENT.
What the FUCK.