Aljernon

I’ve seen this posted before. Important points to consider: Imperial Russia had a housing shortage in the cities due to industrialization occurring and the existing housing was often of poor quality. According to one source: “In major cities, a significant portion of housing consisted of barracks, basements, semi-basements, dormitory-style rooms, dugouts, and semi-dugouts.” Then WW1 hit followed by the civil war and housing construction essentially stopped with some housing destroyed in the war. Then in the interwar period, priority was given to industrial construction in the USSR, resulting in low housing construction volumes, with a significant share consisting of temporary housing. Rapid industrialization and increasing population shifts to cities increasing demand. Then WW2 hit and huge amounts of existing housing were destroyed in the fighting. So the USSR was in tight spot and did the best they could with limited time and resources which for most Russians ended up being a huge improvement. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Housing_construction_in_the_Soviet_Union

To be fair, the USSR had the worse economy in the Warsaw pact. (and to be fair to the USSR, the massive distances and relative emptiness of their country added alot to transportation expenses)

Not quite the same situation but when my grandparents moved in with my parents, they set aside everything in their kitchen into storage and it sat there for 30 years until they died. I save a few things then set most of it out on table with a free sign and 99.99 percent of it got scooped up quick. A fed ex driver told us they were new to the area and almost everything in their kitchen came from our table.

“I spent a life time making professional and political decisions that robbed the younger generations of the same prosperity I enjoyed and just can’t wrap my head around the fact that they can’t physically fit huge heirloom furniture into their tiny living accommodations”

I feel like Microsoft products steadily get worse over time. It’s like they spend money to have their programmers seen how bad a product gets before people will get fed up and dump it.

My common cause is with people trying to see to the needs of the people. If a social democrat walks that path, than he is “our own”. You’ll never get everyone to agree on the details but lets at least agree that the goal is feeding, clothing, housing, leisure, providing for people’s needs and that what sets us apart from people who care only for their own needs.

Even if you have heard an English word before, you’re probably still pronouncing it wrong

To be fair, usually when a language adopts a new word from other languages, they start spelling it in there own fashion. English is unusual in that they use the original spelling.