Communal Flats And Khrushchyovkas: A Look Back At Soviet Housing

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Twenty-five years ago, the Soviet Union ceased to exist, ushering in rapid and sweeping changes. Those who lived through the last decades of the U.S.S.R. remember an era of housing shortages, when ordinary citizens had little say in where they lived, or with whom. (Margot Buff, Multimedia, with material from Current Time TV)