The Soviet Union aimed to make women and men equal. One of the purposes of the communal apartment was to free women from domestic chores.  The organisation of the space with a big and communal kitchen intended to put women out of the kitchen (Boym, 1994). Furthermore, the communal flat offered a bridge between public and private life: it is a private home, in which many people live creating public interaction. Women, that are often associated with the private sphere, had an opportunity of participating in a form of public life (Attwood, 2010). Though it did not actually work: women had access to education but women were still in charge of negotiating the planning for access to the communal kitchen(Kiaer, Naiman 2006). This was visible in one of the scenes of the film where three women were cooking dinner, discussing what to put in the soup, while men were talking in the next room. 

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