LIFE IN THE USSR

PROMISES

• Twelve million new city apartments
• Seven million rural homes
• Private houses and individual kitchens
• Clean and thriving cities

REALITY OF EVERYDAY LIFE

• Two or three families per apartment
• Sometimes toxic water sources
• Smog covered cities from coal
• Goods were in low supplys
• Great Famine recollection

POST STALIN LIFE

• 1953, Khrushchev's Thaw period
• Millions were released and allowed more freedoms
• Khruchev launched consumerism
• Black Market

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