The communal flat had an impact on people’s sexual life. Svetlana Boym also discussed that her first childhood memory was the curtain in her room that separated her family from the others families in the communal flat (1994). In those conditions, privacy was only an illusion. In the footage, sexuality was central. A lot of scenes showed people having sex. One of the scenes represented a man with two women, alone in one of the communal flats after the other people went to bed; they are in the kitchen engaging in some flirting but all in ‘an open secrecy’ with everyone being able to perceive them. In the scene after that the man and one of the women are having sex quietly in the kitchen (from Ledeneva, 2011)

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