Could You Survive a Week in a Soviet Kommunalka?

You get one room. Your whole family sleeps in it. Five other families live behind the other doors — and all of you share ONE kitchen, ONE corridor and ONE toilet. Welcome to Leningrad, 1957. This is a kommunalka, the Soviet communal apartment where millions of people spent their entire lives. Tiny Timewalker moves in for a week: queues for the bathroom, six stoves in one kitchen, neighbours who fight over who left the hallway light on — and one neighbour who might be writing reports about you. So… how long would YOU last? Tell me in the comments 👇 0:00 Monday morning: the toilet queue 0:21 How the Bolsheviks moved strangers into your home 1:16 Six families, one kitchen 2:08 Tuesday: good news (sort of) 2:59 The light switch wars 3:53 Friday: who can you trust? 4:46 Sunday: is there a way out? 6:14 Could you make it? 🕰 New trips through history every week. Subscribe and tell us which era Tiny Timewalker should visit next. — The week and the families are a dramatized story; the history behind them is real. Sources: kommunalka.colgate.edu · en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communal_apartment · nemoskva.net (1918 decree) · masterandmargarita.eu (Soviet housing) Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Fortepan/Nagy Gyula (CC BY-SA 3.0), Viktor Bulla (PD), Engelberthumperdink (CC BY-SA 4.0), Moisei Nappelbaum (PD), Tatiana Bashinskaya (CC BY 3.0), Nikolai Bulykin (CC BY-SA 4.0). Full credits and links in the pinned comment. Original animation and music. Synthetic narration. #history #sovietunion #kommunalka