Thread: Article: The Russian Mindset

Originally Posted by Suobig

Article about dacha is correct. In our awful soviet past every family could receive for free 600 square meters of land for lifetime with a right to propagate to childer.

I haven't checked it but some культуролог once told me that during Stalin's time дачи were distributed among the political elites and intelligentsia (so it was kind of a 'status symbol', of course it was not a place to grow staples there). Only later дачи are becoming as we know them now. As far as I remember there is something like дачный посёлок писателей in Большое Переделкино near Moscow (so these are this kind of дача).