C’mon, these apartment buildings actually had piped water and inside toilets. They also had food available until late 80s and there was no need to carry internal passport all the time.
Speaking of piped water... here is an example of the glories of the Communist revolution:
I once had a neighbor from Germany and she had been a young girl during WWII. She said that when the Russian soldiers got to Germany they had never seen plumbing and thought toilets were potato washing sinks. They also couldn’t understand why they couldn’t pull a faucet off a wall - stick it on another wall and not get water.
“these apartment buildings actually had piped water and inside toilets”
I said SOME. I would say more than 80% of the flats had inside toilets, sewage disposal, piped water and piped gas.
“They also had food available until late 80s”
There was shortages of everything in the 80s. Which led to the queue lines.
“there was no need to carry internal passport all the time”
Yes there was.