Even today in chic St Petersburg, many people still live in one bed miniscule binary apartments, with a communal kitchen and toilet shared between each pair of flats. The people are rude and often drunk. When you enter a shop, the assumption is that the vendor is reluctantly providing you with a service and therefore the vendor, not the customer, is always right; if you don’t like it, they will tell you to foxtrot oscar – this actually happened to me! Even the dogs on the street are grumpy. And yet many people pine for a return to the “good old days” of the USSR.
Defense.gov News Photo 110426-A-7597S-183: U.S. Special Operations service members with Special Operations Task Force South board two UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters following a clearing operation in Panjwa'i district in Kandahar province, Afghanistan, on April 25, 2011. Source: Wikimedia.
Even today in chic St Petersburg, many people still live in one bed miniscule binary apartments, with a communal kitchen and toilet shared between each pair of flats. The people are rude and often drunk. When you enter a shop, the assumption is that the vendor is reluctantly providing you with a service and therefore the vendor, not the customer, is always right; if you don’t like it, they will tell you to foxtrot oscar – this actually happened to me! Even the dogs on the street are grumpy. And yet many people pine for a return to the “good old days” of the USSR.