by Chris Doss
--- Yeah. Look at communal apartments, which were always adduced in anti-Soviet propaganda as evidence of the evils of the latter system. In fact, communal apartments were a response to massive and rapid urbanization. People have to live somewhere. When England industrialized, what happened to the people who flooded into the cities -- they lived in workhouses? Anyway I think both sides of this debate are missing the point of the Soviet experience (limiting the discussion to the USSR). Soviet Union policy was really not about "socialism." The Soviet Union was about modernizing an agrarian country in lickety-split time. It succeeded. ^^^^^^ CB: Are you saying the Soviet people did not think their policy was about socialism or that they didn't know what they were really doing ?
