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I think Soviet functioneers understood that when everybody earns more or less the same tiny salary, they needed to create some other stimulus to control masses.
by nivertech 11y ago
I think Soviet functioneers understood that when everybody earns more or less the same tiny salary, they needed to create some other stimulus to control masses.
Although USSR had a lot of free space to build, I think new apartments made artificially scarce, especially with the start of the industrialization, when many people migrated from a villages to a cities.
People had to work many years at the same workplace in order to advance in a queue for a new private apartment.
- emp_zealoth 11y agoI live in Poland, was born in 91 (pretty much right after the soviets fucked off), but my family grew up in those times. I think you don't realise just how ineffective and broken the system was. Housing shortage came from shortage of everything else, the workfoce didn't give two shits what they made (horror stories about freshly built budings needing an overhaul, etc