This is not true. Dnipropetrovsk was not a "closed" city. I have been
three times in that place during Soviet rule. No permit, or even ID was
required.
On Wed, 5 Mar 2014, Pavlo Ivanchenko wrote:
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>
> As mentioned above, Oleksandr V. Turchynov, an ally and member of her
> Fatherland Party, is now Speaker of the Parliament and the acting chief
> executive. Not mentioned in new stories about Turchynov's new leadership
> role is the fact that he is also an erstwhile head of the Security Service
> of Ukraine (SBU), which was a subsidiary of the KGB during the days of the
> USSR. Also rarely mentioned is that in his youth he was in charge of
> agitation and propaganda for the Komsomol (Communist Youth League) of
> Dnipropetrovsk, one of Ukraine's largest and most important cities and
> military-industrial centers. During the Soviet era it was one of the secret
> "closed cities" that required special clearance to enter or leave. One of
> his comrades (and boss) in the Komsomol was Serhiy Tihipko, mentioned
> above, a fellow oligarch and political power broker.
>
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