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You sadly miss the larger picture here. Why would soviets suddenly have a housing crisis that required shit-quality housing? Why don't we have commie-blocks dis
by Muromec 3y ago
You sadly miss the larger picture here. Why would soviets suddenly have a housing crisis that required shit-quality housing? Why don't we have commie-blocks district in Amsterdam?
Worse circumstances were -- living in villages in their own houses, but that was against communist things. People had to live in public housing in a city and work in a factory, be mobile and be shuffled around whatever number of timezones and thousands of kilometers -- that was the whole point of ideology and was needed for industrialization too.
Life in a village sucked by design too.
- malermeister 3y agoUmmm. Because of WW2 and the Nazis waging a war of extermination on the Soviet population? Many cities were completely reduced to rubble, as were any villages that got in their way. Amsterdam still has their pretty Dutch Golden Age buildings because the war played out very differently there.
- Muromec 3y agoThat's not it. My hometown, which has slightly more population than Amsterdam, didn't suffer any damage to historical core during WW2 (so we have our pretty theater and low-key fancy 19th century houses), yet grew a massive multi-tier commie-block suburbs and incorporated surrounding villages with their owner-occupied single-story houses. In between those suburbs. Soviets squeezed people into the cities and then gave them bare minimum housing there, yet people seem to prize them for it, while diverting all the resources from villages.