In 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

In 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".