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How the USSR built the ‘ideal’ communal cities (PHOTOS) The plan of the future settlement in Novosibirsk. Archive photo In the 1930s, when the Soviet Union expanded its industrialization program and began constructing factories throughout the whole country, a flow of people poured into the cities from villages and the countryside. There wasn’t enough space in the old districts and people arriving to larger construction sites were forced to live in tents, underground dwelling...