> The quarantine against chol era has been lifted in the Black Sea port of Odessa, Pravda re ported today, but Soviet travel organizations said they were still limiting travel to the city.
From the New York Times archive, 1970 [1]. The Soviet government quarantined Odessa in 1970 during the cholera outbreak in a rather cruel way - information about the outbreak was suppressed but since it was a popular vacation spot, people kept coming only to be trapped there [2]. It's hard to find much information on the event due to the iron curtain but I've heard several personal accounts and the similarities are striking.
From the New York Times archive, 1970 [1]. The Soviet government quarantined Odessa in 1970 during the cholera outbreak in a rather cruel way - information about the outbreak was suppressed but since it was a popular vacation spot, people kept coming only to be trapped there [2]. It's hard to find much information on the event due to the iron curtain but I've heard several personal accounts and the similarities are striking.
[1] https://www.nytimes.com/1970/09/21/archives/cholera-quaranti...
[2] https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/chorela-quarantine-odess... - My apologies for a long form article but search for "quarantine" deeper into it.