We need such animation that would invite both children and adults to participate in various activities all day long. We chose Turkey only so that the children would not be bored. Otherwise, we would go to the Maldives.
Apply for a foreign passport on your own, book a hotel, buy a ticket, exchange rubles for foreign currency somewhere (criminally punishable), get an exit visa after an interview at the KGB department and only on the recommendation of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the management of the enterprise where you work, and this is far from all. There was no independent foreign tourism during the USSR, only in organized groups accompanied by guards and in 99% to the countries of the socialist camp. But, there were also individual representatives of society who did rest in Spain, and in Italy, and in Turkey, and God knows where else, they especially liked the NATO countries. So, if a person manages to relax for two weeks in Turkey for 20tr dollars (I spent a maximum of 3 thousand), then I readily believe that in 1989 he could have been there. It was easier for the inhabitants of Honduras to enroll in the cosmonaut corps and fly into space.