You don’t know how lucky you are
back in the USSR.
All Soviet jokes aside, is this passport requirement being imposed only on those states with substandard vetting for drivers’ licenses, or are their Muslim populations also a factor?
Old fact: Red Army conscripts who served only a single enlistment were shipped directly back to their villages upon mustering out.
However, if a Russian soldier completed a second enlistment, upon discharge he was issued an internal passport & could relocate anywhere inside the Soviet Union (some cities required residence permits).