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> We didn't have anything like a laundromat. They were called 'prachechnaya'. And the situation in the USSR wasn't that rosy. Only 70% of the population owned
by woobar 9y ago
> We didn't have anything like a laundromat.
They were called 'prachechnaya'.
And the situation in the USSR wasn't that rosy. Only 70% of the population owned these tiny machines.
- int_19h 9y agoThey may have existed somewhere, but I'm not aware of any in my home town. As with many things in the USSR, it may well have been regional and time-dependent. My memories are from mid-80s, although I know that my family had one before then. I didn't know anyone whose family didn't have one, and we weren't a nomenklatura family or anything like that - just a regular Soviet family with boring everyday jobs (teachers and engineers) - and neither were our neighbors and acquaintances.