[DesertRhino]

Once I had occasion to use an old Soviet toilet. After I finished my business, I hit the handle. People, I am not exaggerating, something like 300 gallons of the Dneiper river shot though it in something like 4 seconds.
It went off with a roar.
It felt like I had torched off a Martin-Baker rocket ejection seat. For a horrifying second, I wondered if it could suck my butt downwards.

I don’t know if some engineer was threatened with the gulags if anyone ever had to flush twice or what. But that was the most astounding flush toilet I’ve ever used.

[Texas Fossil]

LMAO you made my day.

Thanks.

[wbarmy]

old Soviet toilet

I was in Zhitomyr in 2001 just before 9/11. We had a cast iron bathtub which weighed 200-300 lbs. I had a group of Russian workmen pick it up and move it for some reconstruction work in the apartment. On the bottom was a stamped in image of the Soviet symbol and the words (in Russian) Made in the Soviet Union - 1954. I cracked a joke about finding the rest of the Cruiser Aurora. They laughed as if it was the first joke they had ever heard. I think part of the fun was listening to an American tell a real Russian joke.