| Maybe you were living in a big city like Bucharest, Timisoara ... I was there before 1989 and grew in the small town in a house. Not a village, but a small town. We had electricity only a couple of hours per day. I don't know of any specific rule against refrigerator but it was not useful to buy one as you cannot connect it to anything. The main source of light during winter was the fire and some kind of liquid gas (I don't know exacly what was that) that we used with a gas lamp. The same goes for kitchen: most of the cooking was done using the stove or using some gas tanks that were limited - I think one per family per month or I am not sure. But the gas tank was a precious possession there. The same was true for bread or any other food that was produced by the state. There were rations of how much we can buy. |