I was born in the Rostov region in the early 70s. The maternity hospital in which my mother gave birth to me did not have paid, privileged wards. Everything gave birth in the same delivery room. All were given free nighties for feeding.
Nobody demanded to bring diapers or some other care stuff to the hospital. Gave birth is free. They were discharged without extortion or hints from the medical staff. Maximum - a bunch of a midwife.
Then my parents moved to the Far East (my dad is a geologist by profession).
There they were immediately given housing, like a young family. Is freeFor the first time we were given a room in a barrack, with a shared kitchen and a toilet outside.
And six months later, our family was settled in a two-story house in a new two-story house on a street called New. Is free.
Two-room apartment gave because, besides me, there was another child in the family, my older sister. And this is me 👇
The apartment had all the amenities: toilet, bath. For utilities: water, electricity, heating (according to the father), the payment was scanty, about 4 - 6 rubles a month with a dad's salary of 180 rubles. and mothers in 160 rubles.
My sister and I were immediately assigned to the kindergarten, me to the nursery, my sister to the group. Is free. If one of us was sick, then my mother could go to the kindergarten and take our daily meal home. Is free.
In the entrances of our houses not there were intercoms and cameras. Men’s work clothes hung on the stairwells. There were also bedside tables in which food was stored (borscht in winter and all that), potatoes, carrots, cabbage in summer. Nobody poked.
There was also a common food waste bin for families who kept a small farm. In our entrance there were two such families, and all the neighbors threw waste honestly: for two. Here's the experience of separate garbage, by the way)
Then we went to school. If anyone does not know, education in the Union was completely free: school, technical school, institute.
I studied is free.
Parents also studied at one time is free.
There were many circles and sections at the school. Is free.
Starting from the 3rd grade almost every summer my sister and I were sent to a pioneer camp. Is free.
We treated both children and adults is free. Yes, the level of medicine was not the same as it is now. But, if there were any complications, then after the INCIDENCE, people were sent for sanatorium treatment. Is free.
Socialism flourished and communism was on the horizon (just kidding, of course).
Yes, there were times of scarcity and waiting for the purchase of a TV, wall, refrigerator, washing machine for months.
But at the same time there was stability. Everyone knew what they would get free education, then by distribution - work, housing, will attach children to kindergarten, and so on.
What do we have left now free, who knows? 🤔
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