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An old work friend who grew up in the USSR then immigrated to the US after an exchange student program told me about growing up in those kinds of apartments.
His take was essentially: "it's everything you needed, but we didn't have private bathrooms or kitchens."
He also fondly recalled the guy who came once a week or so with the truck of fermented juice of some kind to sell (or maybe give, I can't remember) to all the local kids.
This is also my mother's experience of Communist Poland, but the apartment was cramped and there was no fermented juice guy