Great stuff, so much green everywhere and obviously not a single piece of advertising. Practically heaven compared to modern west.
never got the hate towards commie blocks
they look pretty sweet to methey're exactly like where US poor people live, except with 10,000x more space between buildings (all public grass) and 0% homeless
From what I know, they used to be better maintained during communist times with better amenities and stuff but once that stopped, they just became slowly shitty looking concrete buildings in many places.
Plus the post Stalin commie blocks in the USSR were kind of shit.
but once that stopped, they just became slowly shitty looking concrete buildings in many places
So just another example of capitalists ruining something then pointing to it as an example of communism.
My only complaint is that they're not mixed use and the density is kinda off. Folks should be able to walk to do all of their essentials and use transit to get to work in most places. A centrally planned housing strategy has the opportunity to make this happen.
Most of those had Corner stores or bike shops or whatever somewhere in the court, but the problem was that it was really expensive to keep them all stocked.
They had the walkability down (except for work, because it turns out you shouldnt live near heavy industry), but it was really inefficient.
The blocs in Bucharest are the ideal. First floor commercial, everything above is a two bedroom apartment. You walk downstairs and there's a bodega/bakery.
A lot of it was car-oriented and not mixed use. It was nowhere near as bad as American suburbs but a lot of commieblocks were built next to gigantic streets.
Yeah, scrolling through I was definitely disappointed about the car dependent infrastructure, but I love the futuristic look.
I have said it before, and I will say it again. We need to reclaim the scientific, futuristic aesthetic from the muskrats.
What would happen if capital succeeded in smashing the Republic of Soviets? There would set in an era of the blackest reaction in all the capitalist and colonial countries, the working class and the oppressed peoples would be seized by the throat, the positions of international communism would be lost. :bugs-stalin:
Lost but not dead. You can't kill an idea. That's what makes Capital so dangerous, and why Socialism will win in the end.
I always wonder, if the USSR had never illegally dissolved, my parents would have stayyed. I would have grown up there. I would have went to college with people who (in this reality) have already died by drugs/street prostitution.
I think this is the first time I've ever seen commie blocks photographed in full sunlight during the summer. ever.
They took off the eastern block filter and put on the America filter.
Whoever stocked the shelves in that supermarket just did not give a shit about making it straight. I approve.
Retail is 90% pointless drudgery. After the revolution, product will sit on the floor in the boxes it came in.
One of the things that really changed my perspective when i was younger was my old coworker showing me his photo album from when he lived in a small soviet town in the 70s. It was full of colour, and most of the photos were just of him and his family. So many bbq photos. But it didn't seem any different from my dads photos at the same time. There was a time when things were better, and we need to work our way towards it.
you could tell somebody this was an AI generated image album with the prompt "the 60s/70s/80s/90s in the United States except sometimes with red hammers and sickles and statues of cool dudes like lenin" and it would be believable output.
Its Yerevan, Armenia. The mountain in the back is Ararat, now in the territory of turkey.
Some hog gold in the imgur comments
And I'm sure there are similar hand picked photos from Pyongyang and people will think that all North Korea lives that way...
cause only show elite capital district (notice kosmonaut shit) & photos are all staged (notice perfectly stacked boxes) just lik north korea
Reminder that the instances of real shortages after the recovery from WWII were all in the late 80s during and because of Gorby's half-baked market reforms.
I mean yeah, there were never a lot of cars or dish washers or blue jeans or whatever but it was only in the late 80s when shortages of more basic items were felt.
