People here understand that the Soviet Union had a homeless population too, right? They actually had a higher rate than the US in the 1980s.
But think of the landlords!
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Gorilladrums@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
wpb@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
What was their homelessness rate in the 1980s? I’ve looked for 5 minutes and have not been able to find anything. In the US it was 0.01%.
Taldan@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
The USSR collapsed entirely in the early '90s
Safe to assume everyone is aware they had severe societal issues
Gorilladrums@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
I see this meme getting reposted here every week, and it’s the same nonsense every time. The fact that the people in the Soviet Union had both depressing architecture and homelessness renders the point in the meme both false and meaningless.
RedstoneValley@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Just a reminder that the underlying problems that lead to this kind of architecture aren’t explicitly left-wing. When you were born all the land already belonged to someone else. These might be private properties, corporate owned properties or state owned properties. If you weren’t lucky enough to inherit something from your parents you are forced to live in these boxes. This problem gets worse over time. Lack of opportunities to earn enough money to buy a plot/house, paired with a lack of space in cities also contributed to the situation. It’s shit everywhere because we as humans have continuously failed to implement better solutions.
m3t00@piefed.world 1 day ago
in soviet russia, apartments block you
tomiant@piefed.social 1 day ago
“Dumb commies, they think this is better than owning your own houses and renting them out so they don’t have to work? Savages, let them live in cardboard boxes.” / the bourgeoisie
bollybing@lemmynsfw.com 22 hours ago
If you visit the communism museum in Prague, you’ll learn all about the horrors of being under the thumb of the USSR. And then at the end you’ll see a photograph of the cottage in the countryside where Vaclav Havel and others plotted the revolution with a text explaining that, like many Czech people, Havel owned a second home in the countryside where they would often spend weekends and holidays. For all the bad, the communists did a much better job on housing than the capitalists.
Aljernon@lemmy.today 4 hours ago
To be fair, the USSR had the worse economy in the Warsaw pact. (and to be fair to the USSR, the massive distances and relative emptiness of their country added alot to transportation expenses)
blady_blah@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Why is this right wing or left wing housing?
I guess you can maybe make an argument that this is centralized planning, trying to make the best use of the land available and that right-wing would be pure chaos where the market decides what’s going on. On so you’d have sprawl next to Mansions next to slums, next to McDonald’s, and no parks, and every single tiny piece of land has a building on it, and it all must be fully utilized trying make money in some capitalism way?
Honestly, it doesn’t seem the worst way to do it from a housing density standpoint. Yes, we all want the standalone suburb house or some spot in the countryside, but that’s not the world we live in. For high density housing, this doesn’t seem that bad. Each building has a balcony and overlooks a park and has fresh air and sunshine… How do you do this better?
or is it about equality? Every unit here is equal and therefore bad? That seems a positive in my eyes. Is that really the difference here? There aren’t the ultra poor and the mega rich all mixed in together… Where the poor are in slums and the Richer mansions, is that right wing architecture?
What’s the best way to build high density housing? Tall buildings surrounded by Parks seems to be the most optimal way, right? What am I missing here? The buildings aren’t pretty enough?
billwashere@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
More like capitalist architecture…
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 21 hours ago
I think of the landlords all the time actually…
Zier@fedia.io 19 hours ago
Left wing? LOL.
This is a Soviet Block. They are everywhere in the old USSR.