> > Note the water machines that required an actual glass. > Did you bring your own, or did the machines have their own communal glasses? > Talk about taking communism to a (disgusting) extreme.
I didn't grow up in the Soviet Union but I onced worked with a guy who did. A long time ago he told me about how the town he grew up in as a kid (in the Ukraine) had a single vending machine that dispensed Coca-Cola into a communal glass. I guess you rinsed the glass out somehow before you used it.
I always thought he was exaggerating but I guess not.