[rasputnik6502]

similar in Poland - general shortage of everything, corruption. Dont know the details of how it was with appartments but for sure you had to wait long (like 10 years), there was never enough appartments available and the system of distributing these was unclear and corrupt. On the positive side, there was no problem with trash, there were no packages, no plastic containers, no pre-packaged foods (we had food rations), and newspapers were printed on such low quality paper that you could use it intead of toilet paper (which wasnt available of course). Computers were extremely expensive as they were imported and had to be bought for dollars, and exchange rate was like your monthly salary was the equivalent of 20 dollars