[justsomejew]

"Most people do not know much about the life in Soviet Union"

Well, I was born there, and I think that limiting the comparison to your homeless people is maybe comforting for an american, but is a distorted view.

[throwaway3060]

I don't know where in the Soviet Union you were born. But, the stories I've heard of life outside the cities are completely unrecognizable to the modern American experience outside of the most extreme rural and isolated environments available.