Translation for "grenzkontrollpunkte" to english

Grenzkontrollpunkte

• border checkpoints
• cross checkpoints

Translation examples

border checkpoints

Früher war es schwer gewesen, in die Sowjetunion einzudringen. Eine riesige Organisation, das Oberste Grenzschutz-Direktorat des Komitees für Staatssicherheit, hatte die Grenzen kontrolliert, mit dem doppelten Zweck, Leute drinnen wie draußen zu halten. Heute aber war der Hauptzweck der Grenzkontrollpunkte, daß die neue Riege regionaler Grenzbeamter die Bestechungen von Schmugglern annehmen konnte, die nun große Lastwagen benützten, um ihre Waren in das Land zu bringen, das jetzt eine Ansammlung halb unabhängiger Republiken war, die in wirtschaftlicher und deshalb auch politischer Hinsicht größtenteils auf sich allein gestellt waren.
I T HAD ONCE been hard to enter the Soviet Union . There had been a vast organization called the Chief Border Guards Directorate of the Committee for State Security which had patrolled the fences—in some cases minefields and genuine fortifications, as well—with the dual purpose of keeping people both in and out, but these had long since fallen into disrepair, and the main purpose of the border checkpoints today was for the new crop of regional border guards to accept the bribes that came from smugglers who now used large trucks to bring their wares into the nation that had once been ruled with an iron hand in Moscow, but was now a collection of semi-independent republics that were mostly on their own in economic, and because of that, political terms as well.