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Our Building: What Life Was Like
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You can always find a long-term resident who will talk about the history of the apartment and the building, about other residents, and about his or her childhood.
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Our Neighbors and Us
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Living side-by-side with others calls for adjusting relationships, and setting boundaries regarding private space and property. This was difficult in a communal apartment.
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Drunks and Drug Addicts
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A large apartment almost certainly had its drunk, and sometimes its drug addict. Living with them was full of unexpected disturbances.
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Humor
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Some aspects of communal life were always seen as comic (see also the stories by Mikhail Zoshchenko in the "From Fiction" section.
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