I have a hard time imagining that homelessness in the USSR was ever anywhere near the current situation in the US. Even with arresting and pushing people to other cities, if you’ve seen what the streets around downtown LA look these days, it’s hard to imagine anything like it.
Then you’ll probably have a hard time imagining literal hundreds-of-thousands of people being deported from their homes to Siberian work camps without a scrap of real shelter, or millions dying of famine. Men eating scraps of coal and clay just to feel something in their stomach. Starvation rations with hard labor in the dead of winter. Tents insulated with moss scavenged by the prisoners themselves. One square meter of living space per person.
Then you’ll probably have a hard time imagining literal hundreds-of-thousands of people being deported from their homes to Siberian work camps without a scrap of real shelter, or millions dying of famine. Men eating scraps of coal and clay just to feel something in their stomach. Starvation rations with hard labor in the dead of winter. Tents insulated with moss scavenged by the prisoners themselves. One square meter of living space per person.