They are not going to try again thinking its gonna work this time because they dont want it to "work", they just want to do it again, get it?
This is a shit take for several reasons:
1. Communal apartments were an improvement over what people had before the USSR (cots in hovels, child rape and incest); bugmen want you to downgrade.
2. Communal apartments were a temporary solution and people were being provided with private apartments (yes there were long queues and corruption in jumping said queues). In contrast to the bugman slogan "own nothing and be happy", the Soviets were supposed to have things to themselves and want more.
3. The party elites lived in good but normal housing; the difference between the rich and the poor was vastly less than it is now, not to mention what bugmen want it to be. The Iofan government apartments housed the absolute elites (Stalin's children, Zhukov, Mikoyan, Beria, Khrushchov) and the largest apartment there is 230 square metres; most are 60 to 150 metres. In fact the Iofan apartments share more in common with bugman pods than normie housing of the time (strict rules for residents, guests to be vetted, a tiny kitchen because you were supposed to eat in the canteen). The Soviet elites weren't the same as bugman elites, either; over 500 residents fought in WW2.
Some of the apartments were converted to communal apartments later, so plebes (random plebes, not servants) lived in the same building as elites and used the same common spaces and facilities.
4. Corruption and greed was capped by monetary controls and the goods available for purchase domestically. You could steal a fraction of what a factory produced, you couldn't steal the factory. You could jump the queue and get an apartment to live in (and have that always hanging over you), but you couldn't get a hundred apartments, sell them, and buy a mansion in Italy.
Globohomo is inherently opposed to such controls by definition.
5. The people who truly lived in luxury in the USSR were a dozen celebrity artists, most notably Muslim Magomayev and his wife. He was kicked out of the Pioneers as a kid and never was a Communist. In contrast, Yuri Gagarin lived in a 4-room apartment and earned the equivalent of current year's $300'000 in terms of purchasing power for his flight and $10000/month as a test pilot afterward.
TL;DR however corrupt the Soviet elites were, they were the opposite of Globohomo.
