For the present-day society, the communal flat (in colloquial speech during the Soviet period called ‘kommunalka’ or ‘kommunalnyk’ from the Russian abbreviation) is probably associated only with the official video of a song by Latvian music band Remix from the distant 1980s that could remind us of some striking typical scenes from everyday life of that time. Should we regard them today as exhibits of a virtual history museum? In Latvia since the release of the song, The Communal Blues, the...