An unpleasant feeling arises when a person in dirty torn clothes comes across, who exudes miasma around him. But is he really to blame for the fact that he lives on the street and looks for food in garbage cans?
Usually people turn away from homeless people and try to pass by faster. In general, they can be considered a danger to society, it is they who are the distributors of severe infections and head lice. Where a homeless person has stayed, scabies mites can be found. The conclusion suggests itself that it is necessary to fight with them. But each person has the right to choose. In the USSR, they were not afraid to fight them, even in the criminal code an article was provided for them for vagrancy, parasitism and begging.
How they became homeless in the USSR
The history of vagrancy is as old as this world. Jesus Christ was also a homeless person, if we talk about the availability of living space. And in rich, well-fed Europe there are many beggars nowadays, the United States is no exception, there are about 3.5 million of them. But it is one thing when people go to wander at the call of the soul, they like to wander and live freely, not to be obliged to anyone, and quite another, when a person is not registered where he lived before prison, or when his apartment was taken away by fraudulent means.
But such situations are not uncommon when a person is deprived of living space. It was very easy to become a homeless person in the Soviet Union, it was enough to get a court verdict on the real term of imprisonment. After being released from places of detention, the person had nowhere to go, to the apartment where he lived before, he might not be registered. In this case, there were three ways out for him: to commit a new crime and go back to prison, where there is a box (in the jargon - a bed), and where they are fed three times a day.
The second way out is to become a homeless person, and the third is to find a job where a hostel is provided. Fortunately, the USSR had no problems with such housing, almost every enterprise had hostels. In the future, such a person could get an apartment if he worked with dignity and did not enter into conflict with the law anymore.
What the state did so that there were no homeless people
In the USSR, the leading country in the world, such a phenomenon could not have been a priori, as high-ranking figures broadcast from the stands. But they were, and with those who did not want to work, they acted simply. They were simply evicted from the cities-megalopolises, they were not even registered with just convicts in Moscow and Leningrad. They were forbidden to appear in large cities, so as not to disgrace the Soviet reality.
If a homeless person could not find a job and did not get a job somewhere to live, he was prosecuted under the article of the USSR Criminal Code for parasitism, since every citizen had to work, and unemployment did not exist in the country in those years. By the way, people like Joseph Brodsky, the Nobel laureate, were also considered parasites in the USSR, since they did not officially work, but lived at the expense of royalties.
When there was the USSR, everyone who wanted to work was provided with a job and housing if he needed it. Those who did not want to work were given forced labor in logging in difficult natural conditions. But the homeless were all the same. And today, taking into account modern legislation and its corruption component, any citizen of the country can share their fate with vagabonds.
