Posted by benbreen 10/27/2024
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitchen_Debate#The_role_of_wom...
"Whilst pointing to the dishwasher, Nixon emphasized on his strive to make life easier for women by way of the pre-installed units. Khrushchev replied, "Your capitalistic attitude toward women does not occur under Communism,"
And Khrushchev kept his word - mass built USSR houses carrying his name https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Хрущёвка
a typical 3 room flat - measurements are in meters, 5.2m2 is the kitchen, 45m2 total (i.e. 60sqft and 500sqft) https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Хрущёвка#/media/Файл:GI_Planir...
"kitchen ready for occupancy permit" (that 60sqft one) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Кухня_при_сдаче_дома...
(or how about the kitchen Ivan the Terrible encounters in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a50qT9bW2Qo#t=2143 ? Brezhnevka?)
Neither, it is bigger and ceilings are higher. And the building isn't standard concrete panels (the shape of the window and the thickness of the walls in the window opening in particular tell that). So, it is older than Khruschev. May be Stalin time or pre-Revolution (elongated shape suggests not original design and instead ad-hoc space reorganization that happened to pre-Revolution flats when they were made into multi-family "communal" flats).
>the kitchen Ivan the Terrible encounters
The apartment building in the movie is of the "improved" design, very infrequent type of building at the time, and typically the kitchens there were a bit larger. The kitchen in the movie isn't real though - such large kitchens never existed in post-Stalin mass built multi-story apartment buildings. I've seen such large kitchen only in the Stalin time built 3 story building where top city officials/bosses lived - my friend's father was a CEO of a factory, and so they lived in a flat in that building.