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> For example, in USSR I remember wiping my ass with cut-up newspaper for months at a time. As a Romanian who grew up as a kid in the '80s and the '90s I'm sor
by paganel 5y ago
> For example, in USSR I remember wiping my ass with cut-up newspaper for months at a time.
As a Romanian who grew up as a kid in the '80s and the '90s I'm sort of glad that this was a shared Eastern-European experience, it's something that people from the other side of the wall will most probably never understand completely. When I was spending the summer at my grandparents me and my brother were sometime wiping our asses off with pages taken from "Munca de Partid" (roughly translated as "Party Work"), which was the official magazine of the Romanian Communist Party's Central Committee. Our granddad had been a communist mayor in the village and he had almost the entire collection of those magazines.
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- nickpp 5y agoI still wonder what effect all that lead (from the newspaper ink) will have on our rectums' health.
- renewiltord 5y agoOut of curiosity, did no one transition to using water jets like in Asia or was that even more expensive?
- paganel 5y agoIn the countryside most of the times we didn't have running water at the place where we were doing our thing, it was essentially just a hole in the ground with some stuff around it. In the city usually the apartment bathrooms were too small for a bidet-like appliance to be installed, and even if the place had been there the communist authorities/institutions that had been building those apartments were regarding the bidets as too "bourgeois".