A Usenet persona calling itself BCITORGB wrote:

weiser:
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Well, first, it's an extremely recent thing.
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not so recent: the first time i crossed borders in europe without being
stopped was 1972

Only between select countries who had travel agreements. Not EU-wide. That
didn't happen till recently. You didn't get in to East Germany that way in
1972 did you?

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