• Redcuban1959 [any]
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    2 years ago

    The DPRK was completely destroyed after the Korean War, China and the Soviets helped rebuild most of it. Cuba had gained control of the country with most of the large cities as they were, these evolved from the colonial cities so there will be old decaying building, most of latin america is like this. This is a picture of downtown Havana.

    • ClassUpperMiddle [they/them]
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      2 years ago

      Yeah what a stupid post, lets not pull pictures from East Palestine or Detroit and compare them to Havana now

      • ZoomeristLeninist [comrade/them, she/her]
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        2 years ago

        you can even take pictures from the financial capital of empire nyc and they look like a horrible place to live compared to havana. in one of these pics, the only green in sight is on the wall of a building! and in the other pic you get a bunch of shitty trees and grass on the median and a single row of trees on the sidewalk. in havana, the densest parts of the city have green everywhere

        in nyc, the residential buildings are relatively short. while the skyscrapers are all office space. havana is able to conserve space by having those giant residential buildings to minimize sprawl. also all their buildings are beautiful and unique, while the nyc architecture is just depressing

        • chickentendrils [any, comrade/them]
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          2 years ago

          Any part of the US I guess? There's litter almost everywhere, because it's hard as shit to maintain car infrastructure. It's too sprawling, someone's car falls apart along a highway or gets totaled in a ditch and it might sit on the shoulder for months.

    • ssjmarx [he/him]
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      edit-2
      2 years ago

      Putting color on buildings

      Havana :solidarity: Pyongyang

    • Nagarjuna [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Also like, just psychically, I would rather be in a dense and ornate downtown that happens to be dirty than a wide open and plain soviet style downtown that happens to be pristine. Much respect to DPRK, the Soviet Union and the city of Stockholm but that kind of urban planning makes me feel weird.