Quote Originally Posted by Anixx View Post
Look, the majority of people in the West (I do not know how in the US, but certainly in the western Europe) DO NOT have private property in the same meaning as it was understood in the USSR. What they have is what the USSR would call "personal property". The majority of the people are employed in any country, not the business owners, and as such they have no private property. That means that only a minority of population in any country enjoys the private property rights, even in the west.
I think a good example of a private property a typical westerner might think of is a real estate. Who was an owner of the real estate in the USSR? Say, what options would a typical young Soviet family have in that regard?