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Back home we build things to last 500 years, Unless your buddy was from the Vatican, it's not true for much of Europe. These beauties aren't gonna last 500 yea
by pvg 4y ago
Back home we build things to last 500 years,
Unless your buddy was from the Vatican, it's not true for much of Europe. These beauties aren't gonna last 500 years:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plattenbau https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plattenbau
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khrushchyovka https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khrushchyovka
- rd 4y agoIt’s just a Communist Eastern Europe vs. Western Europe thing. Western Europe’s history and historical buildings remained and will remain intact for centuries. Eastern Europe’s didn’t remain due to war and won’t remain due to lack of culture surrounding said buildings now. None of this meant in an offensive way - just the way it goes sometimes.
- pvg 4y agoPlenty of housing like it was built in the west, with the same tech. Not to mention all the cheap workers' housing of the industrial revolution most of which didn't last 150 years, never mind 500.
- alephxyz 4y agoNo it's not. France and Italy also built a ton of those brutalist commuter towns in the 60s.
- Ma8ee 4y agoBut those examples were built as temporary buildings until real Communism was established and everyone could live in nice houses.