While we're at it, I think the Soviet and East German creches were pretty cool. There were probably other similar systems elsewhere in the Eastern Bloc but those are just the ones I've read about.

Like an extended day care where parents volunteer in shifts, as I understand it. Seems nice and pretty easy to integrate into people's regular lives if you have the social infrastructure (i.e. socialism) to support it.

Also on the subject, I would like to learn more about what life is like in Venezuela's communes.