was a hippie. the idea of living in a commune, not attractive to me. >> i was born in a communal flat with three other families, sharing one john, one kitchen. >> no way. >> they would feed me when i had no food. >> no way. i share my toilet with no man. >> take the first left, please. >> meet yuri, human rights activist, professor of journalism, one of 26 tenants living together in this communal apartment, an arrangement basically unchanged since soviet times. >> just in case you change your mind and -- >> and it's here that i see for the first time a glimpse of my friends in the years' mysterious past, growing up in a home just like this one. >> in russia normally people dip your bread into this canned -- like this. >> this was normal for you growing up? >> yeah. i wouldn't drink booze until probably 22.