Version: a window is needed in case of an explosion in the bathroom. This, of course, is not about terrorist attacks, which in the USSR had never even been heard of. In fact, they were, but little was said about them and therefore they stopped. What is the use of terrorist attacks if the media do not scream about them and the population is not afraid? We are talking about an explosion of gas from a gas column.
There is logic here. Gas water heaters were in the bathrooms, gas accumulates there, accumulates, then, as it explodes, this window will take out, and the walls will stand. That is, this is some kind of safety valve, because they did not open - there was no need.
But alas. These windows were also made in the old, pre-revolutionary times. To immediately create a striking argument and image:
- Yes, the cursed door does not open! The damned kittyar cracked the lamp, and I began to grab the scoundrel by the legs - the tap turned out!
As we remember, no one was in a hurry to save Sharikov by crawling through the window. Therefore, the version that this is a window for rescuing stuck ballpoints is also not suitable.
But! Now we are accustomed to the fact that everywhere there is hypocrisy and electric lights glow. And in the days of the revolution, then not yet! The electrification of all of Russia was carried out much later. And electric lighting - it was, rather, wondrous and wonderful miracle. And every time, running into the bathroom to fetch water, carry a kerosene stove with you instead of a pot for water …
Hence the simple and understandable logic: earlier this was done for the sake of highlighting. Well, for some reason, a little light enters there - enough to feel the tap, not all balls. And the layout was such that in many bathrooms the wall was outside. Recently I was in an old cottage like this: during the day, the light in such a bathroom, really, is not required.
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However, the electrification of everything and everything broke out, then Comrade. Stalin, then Khrushchevs, light bulbs became a commonplace and familiar element of the interior, the only question was the beauty of the GDR-ovsky plafond. The doors to the bathrooms were no longer oak, it was enough just to pull a little harder and it would open.
By the way, I recall one incident from youth parties, when I took and opened such a door, after a good Crimean wine, not noticing that it was locked. And there is a girl … Well, it doesn't matter)) It was the past, and the girl there was the one who was "mine" then, so everything was done without scuffle)) But the blind windows from the bathrooms in the kitchens continued to be made in Soviet times. Why then?
Poster * Electrophication and Counter-Revolution *. RSFSR, 1921
It's all about tuberculosis. Electricity is electricity, and the country has been actively fighting various epidemics, not only with medications, but also with various health-improving and prophylactic ones. And in particular, with the multiplication of the tubercle bacillus.
Imagine: a bathroom, there is darkness all day, humid from the water, stuffy from hot water, and so it goes on for years. What if the ventilation fails? Yes, bacteria will multiply there at the same rate as the liberals when announcing a competition for a new grant! Entering such a rotten room, you can get a whole bunch of liberal ideas at once! Oh. I mean, bacteria, microbes and other disgusting diseases)))
The painting "The expulsion of a liberal from a person."
But our valiant (Soviet) scientists have established: in the bright light of day, liberal ideas do not survive, they are afraid of the light! Ugh. Here it has become attached … Tuberculosis sticks do not survive. They do not multiply, they are uncomfortable with any infectious bacteria in the sunlight. (And liberals, in my opinion, too))
Therefore, a simple and effective decision was made. Which, as always under socialism, was spelled out in GOSTs, SNiPs and other norms: there should be a window in the bathroom! So that sunlight, even if reflected, is present there throughout the daylight hours and does not allow harmful microflora to multiply.