The last time I tell you why in the USSR they made a window from the bath to the kitchen

The article will focus on this window, which is probably familiar to each of you. And even though some of my readers did not have a chance to live a day in the Soviet Union, even young people have seen these windows more than once in the apartments of their parents and grandparents.

Why was this window made?

When I asked myself this question, I had three versions. The first is pragmatic, the second is prudent and the third is vital.

The version is pragmatic.

In the USSR, the people were thrifty, even despite the fact that by today's standards, electricity and gas cost mere pennies and did not grow in price for decades. And perhaps for the sake of thrift, Soviet engineers made this window so that sunlight could enter the bathroom, or light from a light bulb from the kitchen.

Then the citizen would no longer need to turn on the light in the bathroom, and even you can save money on concrete and brick - after all, you don't need to lay the void (this is professional, sorry).

The second version is prudent.

If one of the inhabitants of the apartment becomes ill while taking a bath, it will not work to open the door (all the more so then easily opening glass doors were a luxury). And then the roommates will help him by exposing the window to the kitchen, miraculously not injuring the already injured household member.

The third version is vital.

As you know, the situation with ventilation in Khrushchev and Brezhnev was so-so. And in order to improve ventilation, they provided for a window that had to open (and the tenants themselves had already installed blind windows).

Where is the truth?

And the truth is contained in the second version. It turned out that the windows were installed precisely for security purposes.

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