286 Conclusion
In this realm, the interests of Soviet state and citizen coincided: productivity
led to knowledge, pleasure, and freely chosen mobility. But in travel, citizens
also began to break free of the state, to take charge of their individual itin-
eraries, and to claim their own autonomy. Yet in the end, perhaps precisely
because of this better life, they remained loyal to the state that had enabled
their voyages of self-discovery.