What’s Inside a Typical Soviet Apartment? 

Exactly! Attractive insulation. Practical and lovely...👍🏽

And keep noises from going through walls.

Yes. I am ex-Soviet. My parents used it for sound isolation and it was warm to sleep in bed with a carpet on the wall. I draw with a finger patterns there before sleeping. 😂

Sound pollution from neighbours is the main problem of most commie blocks. It is so bad, it can reduce you life expectancy by years.

Добавлю, что сначала это была дворянская, "рыцарская" традиция (дворяне вешали на ковер оружие, чтобы даже спросонья могли моментально вооружиться). Поэтому ковры всегда вешались не просто на стену, а практически обязательно при постели (кровати или дивана). Кстати, иногда и сейчас на ковер вешают (обычно декоративное или старинное) оружие.

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@@mrguiltyfool Anti-Terrorism Advisory Council

My grand uncle killed. Arussian so he could escape the prison camp

Россия > КНР.

@@Edwardian I love in America and my door has the window on top as well, not to mention the gigantic window that is basically a whole wall, it’s kinda cool and I’ve only felt a bit compromised when I was tall enough to be level to it lol.

Epic

I highly doubt he was forced. What is he going to tell the Soviet’s? That he had a business venture with their enemies? And if you’re insinuating that the coffins were for victims; I’ll give you a minute to think about why that’s absurd.

@@sabrinatscha2554 another ignorant American commenting on things they know nothing about

​@@sabrinatscha2554It's called banter: He's using a joke to aliviate tension.

​@@sabrinatscha2554So, while i agree that he can't say anything diffrent to the soviet who was interogating him, it wasn't like he could say no to the wermacht soldier who wanted something from him.

You guys are known for your rugs though lol, it would be weird to suddenly stop

The reason is - if the apartment looks like that it's likely to be not renovated since 1980 or so.

@@annasolovyeva1013 I see. That makes sense, but that means nobody today is copying the same design choice and putting a rug?

@@shahed-1367 yes. Rugs are a part of the late soviet style (also accociated with brown mid-century furniture, Chrystal glass chandeliers, elephant figurines, certain wallpaper designs etc). All together went out of fashion when the "euroremont" style of 90s and 2000s got in fashion. It included complex ceiling constructions, archways, spot lights and photorealistic wallpaper. And "euroremont" was replaced with "Scandinavian style" in the 2010s (everything white and basically from IKEA - works well with standard post-soviet housing)

now it's back in style!

My grandma's apartment is also soviet-like

I think you will find that most furniture around the world in the 60s and 70s looked Soviet. Ikea seems to be somewhat better style but reduced quality, today.

Funny, cuz Finland was never a part of Soviet union, never an eastern bloc country and never under communism.

Not really Soviet but more like a universal style. I had seen similar here in the US.

It was a trend in the 60ies called "modern interior" that in theory focused on function over form but in reality was about a specific look that people at the time associated with modernity, very often at the expense of comfort or functionality. Only obvious difference to me is that our houses tended to be a bit larger, but the ugly lamps and mirrors and uncomfortable sofas and chair were everywhere. Also awful brown and orange color schemes or giant polka-dot plastic wallpapers...

I think it's hereditary. Bagpipes make the hair on my spine stand on end.

Желаю тебе от всего сердца удачи, надеюсь ближайшем будущем у тебя будет все хорошо ✌️

@@94namnamСпасибі Благодарность❤️👍

Then go there if u hate the usa

Most of the pay is for land, e.g. location, not the building.

Yes, soundproof and insulation

Lol, I put them on tables.

Noisy, cold & drafty due to the low quality of construction, - therefore the need in additional insulation.

Hi, l come from Moldova but carpets on the wall was typical much before comunism, dating back to the days when they were hand woven AMD not yet mass produced like in the soviet days. It was because the walls give off coldness in Winter but with a caroet on the wall it was cosy to sleep even if your back was touching the wall or to read on the bed leaning with your back to the wall 😊

@@luciamitu9962 Up here in the cold Finland thick decorative wall cloths ("ryijy" in Finnish) are also an essential part of older Finnish interior decor.

I bet it lasts longer than Ikea furniture which rarely survives its second move.

Furniture factories in the GDR also produced for IKEA.

@@jessicah3450definitely lasts much longer. Most people couldn’t afford replacing big items, so the expectation was that your furniture could outlast you and be passed down to your kids.

I remember the older women in my neighborhood beating their rugs on the clothesline in the 60s, & in between thrashings they would shake them out the back door! There wasn't any carpeting, few had vacuums. Carpet sweepers were used a lot. I still see rug beaters often at auction, some with decorative wirework. Simpler lifestyles with less use of electricity, & with not much more effort. And homes were just as clean. Nothing smells better than clothes dried on a line. When I bike through neighborhoods in the evening, the air is often scented, not with flowers as in the past, but with the smell of dryer sheets coming out of the vents. It's enough to knock the birds out of the trees. What a world.

I tell people that the curious wicker thing hanging on my wall is the Husband Beater...

There are no carpets in the wall of Finnish homes. Finland was never a part of Soviet union.

And castles with tapestries hung on the walls!

Yes right. It provides more insulation in winter, and it is soundproof, so you don't hear noisy neighbours hah.

Yes. Soviets used it for that. And ot is comfortable to sleep in bed with warm carpets in winter than cold walls

I have vintage Anchor-Hocking. They had very nice red and green glass.

I have a small collection of pressed glass from thrift stores. My favorite is the uranium/vaseline glass that will glow under UV. I know they made it in Czechoslovakia, but was it available in the Soviet Union?

Hopefully grandma is still doing that. There were Arab traders in Russia around 1,000 years ago who were amazed at how clean everything was. It's a survival trait in that climate.

Looks really good too.

Don't they get moldy in tropical climate?

Not until the rainy months

@@foolofatook9867 not really. Where I am from in PH is pretty chill even for a summer. Not to mention we keep the Air Condition on a lot. And honestly I like how it turned out. Cleaning the carpet is a bitch though but it's so worth it.

@@classictroublemaker5587 true. It can get a bit warm when sun shines after rain. But when the wind blows. The wind blows cold.

Е, не бъдете толкова очаровани. В България сме били 40 години под съветско влияние и повярвайте не беше добре за нашия народ. Другото е руска пропаганда днес, която няма нищо общо с реалността.

I can tell you right now - it depends. Cities were grown by their factories and plants. The entire structure was like - 1.A plant has lots of workers 2.they elect a deputy from their collective 3.deputies govern civic developments + there were separate city burocrats with their own self-organization + federal burocrats with centralized planning machine. So if your factory unit is important for any reason - it has huge founding and builds city district for it's own development - investing resources including HR. If your factory doesn't do well - it requires help from the city and if the city doesn't do well it seeks help from republican\federal organizations. So the better and the more important industry unit was - the better was quality of it's city district and services. Unfortunately this approach leads to a situation, when the best minds are attracted to the most comfy enterprises and keep improve those even further, while the less lucky slowly degrade to the point nobody works there. The party tried to solve it - limiting the life quality so there will not be such an urgent need to move from town to town BUT that was only one side of this approach, cause in the same time, government subsidized peripheral civic development under the philosophy "rather then move - make it better when you already are" and SURPRIZE - it worked and made soviet towns much-much better. So here ere pluses: people invest in local and make towns and province better place to live. Minuses: It takes a lot of resources and planning and you need to limit the quality of life.

Yes! I bought one in the US. Great use of minimal space.

TV remotes came to Russia just after Soviet union falling only. The only TV-remote in USSR was floor mop 😉😂

Soviet electronics deserve a video of its own

Same in Ireland too, my friends father had a long bamboo cane he used for changing to one of the three tv channels 😂

Sound isolation and it was warm to sleep in bed with a carpet on the wall. Walls are so cold at nights. In my childhood I used to draw patterns with a finger before sleeping. My mom could knit carpets. We still have two. Hand work. I am ex-Soviet Asian.

@@helloworld-ti5zs Yes!

Well romanian ones were really popular in USSR too!

In the South US they have chiffarobes - half chiffonier, half wardrobe

Howard Lovecraft used to say that if you stare at the dark abyss for too long, the abyss will stare at you. Our carpet does not even hide itself and immediately offers to look into its otherworldly dimension.

Very interesting!

Here in the States people throw away some really nice things! I'm poor, and my apartment is nicely furnished, because the things I've picked up at the curb, or in second hand shops are antique, or really nice. I'm talking good woods and expensive upholstery. We have so much *stuff* and people are such big consumers that material things seem to have lost value...

Yeah im actually thinking about putting one or two in my new apartment. I wonder how much they help with the noise. Its not too bad in the house but sometimes I hear other apartments and I guess it's vice versa. I think they look cozy too. I also have no idea what else to do with the blank walls lol. I guess im too old for movie Posters but I also have no idea what kind of pictures to put there. Im really bad at this.

I read your comment and I remember being a kid (decades ago) and my step-dad wanting that parachute, I had forgotten about that,

Those were always handmaded, so expensive.

@@xsc1000 I wonder if the problem is not that they went out of fashion but more once russia markets opened up, they became too expensive for the russian market.

@@WagesOfDestruction Most of that carpets you see in soviet rooms were factory maded, so cheap. Those hand maded from central Asia were more expensive also in soviet times.

@@xsc1000 that is interesting, I am sure that the today in Russia they are even more expensive as Russians are competing with the world for these handmade ones

For family with childrens, there were larger flats planned, called 3+1. 1 for kitchen and 3 rooms - living room, bedroom and childrens room. Ofc not every family lived in those flats.

From the point of view of a lad that grew up in a similarly styled soviet-era block in post-socialist Bulgaria: We used to live in a so called 2-room apartment - one bedroom, one living room, and a separate kitchen. When I was little, I did share a bedroom with my parents. But I guess I should note that neither the living room nor the bedroom were particularly small. Decently comfortable for sure, given what else may have been available at the time. When I got to about 10, I moved to the living room, where I used to sleep on a sofa that folded out into a bed. I remember my parents moving sections of the wall of furniture mentioned in this video around a few times to adjust the living space in the living room to the then-current needs, which was always a daunting task as they are massive and a good 2.5 meters high. When we did renovations to the apartment, we would always worked around the immovable 3-wing wardrobe with drawers on top, that goes almost all the way up to the 3-meter ceiling. I don’t think the wall behind it has been painted since it first made its way into my parents’ bedroom.

Well, there was an option to store kids in the living room, where they slept on a folding sofa (usually there was only one, maximum two children in the typical late Soviet family). That's how I grown up. I've actually slept on a folding sofa until I got married 😂, when finally switched to a queen-sized bed.

The answer for your questions are in russian history. The country that only focuses on brutal destroying of everything intelligent inside its own borders and outside can only come up with ideas that restrict it citizens living space and mind. Those two are closely interconnected. Take away private space form an individual and you have controlled worker very soon. In soviet times everything was regulated and planned (super poorly). The idea was that communist party knows better what people need (not want). In a strictly controlled planned economy there is no competition. The result is no motivation that leads to no innovation. Also by the 70s the most of manufacturing equipment stolen form occupied countries and Germany were worn out. USSR/russia was hardly capable producing anything quality and original itself (that fact was mentioned in this video as well). Despite what rose tinted soviet lovers say, the living was quite shit. I am reall surprised I discovered a review of soviet things that is actually honest. Saying "in russia, everything is shit, except piss" was quite true. For example, you asked why people didn't prefer painted walls. The reason was simple, because there were only 3-4 colors available. Brownish yellow that looked like a chickenshit. Ugly brown that literally looked like shit. Brown toned green. And typical intensive light blue with what enire rural russia is still painted (because fly's don't like it or simething like that). And those paints never stopped smelling, ever (this is not an exaggeration, I couple of years opened and removed an under floor that still had the same 30 year old paint and those panes smelled entire week until garbage truck took those away - the smell was toxic. The smell of childhood apartment)! Only wihte was for ceilings. The second reason why people didn't want to paint walls was because there were no quality filling putty available. Those walls never got smooth enough to look good under painting. Washing machine in bathroom was luxury for bigger bathrooms. Into typical old soviet apartment built in 60s it just didn't fit at all. The window between bathroom and kitchen is oddity from 50s. Rembember, it was just after war and electricity was scarce. So it was the source for natural light. And electricity was relative scarce until the collapse of soviet union. Electricity cut-outs were normal part of living. You had to have a set of candles and matches around. Unfortunately the last part about love for russians gives me cringe. Yes, this is something very wierd to say today. As individuals among russians there are tons of great and pure hearted intelligent people. But as a society they are totally failed. No normal society would allow it's country to conduct genocide in their neghbouring country. I mean Ukraine here.