Yeah, I know. But these are exclusive to America and the underdeveloped world, and we're not defending that. It also has similarities with it. Europe has good housing (Though unaffordable) that isn't suburbia, but modern day commie blocks aren't exactly affordable in Russia either.
Cybersheeper
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I know this, I used to live in a Stalin era house in Moscow. But Stalin's Russia had a big problem with housing, only Khrucshev fixed it. All of these things may come as a shocker to an American, but they're quite common in Europe. And it wasn't that easy to get a house, you had to wait in line for half your life and the system didn't work with a bit of corruption, like centralized systems always do. Comparing the USSR to western countries is especially bad, because western countries had no regard towards workers, and if we look at the same timeframe we could say they advanced their housing capabilities equally.
I feel like Vienna did it better. And in European cities that didn't get bombed to shit in ww2 these houses look out of place and terrible. These houses weren't build for the benefit of people, but for the benefit of production, like in good old capitalism. They often disregarded the enviroment and historic parts of the city
Ok, but we have to agree that Soviet blocks are systematic government slop that destroy individuality and make people miserable.
My socialist heart feels hopeful, but my anarchist brain knows nothing will change.
Now make a comic about the redfascists shooting anarchists, or the (I am assuming leftcom) shooting anarchists.
They are designed with productivity in mind, much like capitalist architecture, they aren't designed to be liveable.