{"id":3689,"date":"2019-08-01T09:26:36","date_gmt":"2019-08-01T09:26:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/08\/01\/on-securing-a-toilet-in-the-soviet-socialist-craphole\/"},"modified":"2019-08-01T09:26:36","modified_gmt":"2019-08-01T09:26:36","slug":"on-securing-a-toilet-in-the-soviet-socialist-craphole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/08\/01\/on-securing-a-toilet-in-the-soviet-socialist-craphole\/","title":{"rendered":"On Securing a Toilet in the Soviet Socialist Craphole"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yet another reason why you don't want the U. S. to become the S. U.  <\/span><\/p>\n

Bernie Sanders take note!<\/span><\/p>\n

Rod Dreher reports<\/a> that a Russian friend visited him and recounted the following story:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Vladimir told a great one about how his father, during Soviet times, solved the family\u2019s toilet problem.<\/span><\/p>\n

When the family\u2019s toilet bowl cracked, you couldn\u2019t just go to the hardware store and buy a replacement. What hardware store? The government installed that toilet, and it was the government\u2019s responsibility to replace it. But good luck getting on a list to have your toilet replaced. Finally, Vladimir\u2019s father, a senior engineer, cooked up a plan. He had a Communist Party connection in a city called Novokuznetzk, a guy who could get him a new toilet.<\/span><\/p>\n

Problem: Vladimir\u2019s family lived in Dnipro, Ukraine; Novokuznetzk is on the other side of the USSR, near the Mongolian border \u2014 a 17-hour flight.<\/span><\/p>\n

But the family needed a toilet. So off dad went.<\/span><\/p>\n

How did he get the toilet home? He lugged it onto the Aeroflot flight, and sat on the toilet all the way back to Dnipro. Though a small man, Vladimir\u2019s dad wrestled the toilet up into their apartment and installed it. There it remains to this day.<\/span><\/p>\n

A system that makes a man have to fly 17 hours one way to get a new toilet through back channel connections, then ride all the way back home sitting on top of that commode \u2014 that\u2019s not a system that works.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

No shit!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yet another reason why you don't want the U. S. to become the S. U.  Bernie Sanders take note! Rod Dreher reports that a Russian friend visited him and recounted the following story: Vladimir told a great one about how his father, during Soviet times, solved the family\u2019s toilet problem. When the family\u2019s toilet bowl … Continue reading “On Securing a Toilet in the Soviet Socialist Craphole”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communism","category-socialism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}