Apartmenteering
Just as I was wondering how to pass the long winter evenings in a Soviet apartment, I got this great tip from www.risk.ru. Adventure is waiting right outside the kitchen window.
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Risk.ru recommends apartmenteering in the frozen north, preferably Norilsk, where there’s good quality sheet ice to be had on most balconies.
Probably though, you’d prefer climbing from the comfort of your own apartment. But what if you don’t have an apartment? Well, here’s my quick, ‘How To Build Your Own Soviet Apartment‘. You’ll need to climb on the roof of a nearby apartment anyway to get started.
1. Choose a local apartment block with a flat roof. (Not difficult.)
2. Get the wife to run up some interior walls. Ideally, these should be sited monotonously on top of all the interior walls of the apartments below.
3. Winch in a pre-fab exterior wall from your favourite Soviet ConcreteTM reseller and you’re done.
4. For a more ornate, Stalinist granite-style apartment you will need accredited stonemasons. These overqualified, marriage-minded ladies can be easily found on any Internet dating site.
Isn’t that middle lady Princess Margaret? Probably she found out that gin and tonic is not so easy to get in in Russia and that explains the grimace.
wow, it’s really cold out there. i bet if anything would stay after nuclear war it would be soviet apartments. or at least the cockroaches
Cordelia (right) to Goneril (center) and Regan - Okay gals, I presume now we can call dad and tell his new mansion ready.-
It’s an old archive picture from Marxists.org. I think that rules out a production of King Lear. But it could possibly have been a State Visit by Princess Margaret. It has that kind of ‘photo op’ quality. Researchers are welcome to write in.