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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 26 points 3 hours ago

identical apartments

Under Communism, we were forced by the government to live in Poor People Houses. It was illegal to tip your landlords. If you updated your wallpaper, the local Commissar would murder your first-born child and eat your dog.

Incredible.

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 27 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

Ever heard of those folks they found in the wild parts of Russia in the late 70s who never even realized the Second World War happened?

Fucking life goals there

[–] degen@midwest.social 2 points 1 hour ago

Flip side to the dudes in the Pacific who were still hunkered down

[–] MaxLemminist@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

IDK

They wore clothes woven from homegrown hemp, used birch bark for shoes, and routinely faced near-starvation (the mother, Akulina, starved to death during a crop failure in 1961).

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 1 points 20 minutes ago

I’ll take my chances. Plus those clothes and shoes sound durable and cheap.

[–] gnate@lemmy.world 9 points 3 hours ago

To be fair, being good enough isn't the only reason for something to be in current use.

[–] Malica@lemmy.zip -3 points 2 hours ago (3 children)

Lol I wouldn't brag on the blocs comrade, there are many problems with them.

[–] Oppopity@lemmy.ml 1 points 19 minutes ago

Yeah no shit. Literally everything has ups and downs. The USSR just got through a world war against a power that was trying to genocide and colonise their land. Entire cities were destroyed. Millions were made homeless. Commie blocks were a good thing and yet they're shat on. Like what else were they meant to do?

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 16 points 2 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Malica@lemmy.zip -3 points 2 hours ago (3 children)

One has nothing to do with the other? I thought we were talking about blocs.

[–] ClathrateG@hexbear.net 16 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

The OP is about how liberals react to public housing built in the USSR: with horror

Meanwhile their own political/economic system does not even attempt to supply all those in need with housing, and leaves its citizens to rot in tent camps or with even less shelter, exposing clear double standards and hypocrisy

[–] Malica@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Apologies that I missed the context then

[–] ClathrateG@hexbear.net 5 points 57 minutes ago* (last edited 2 minutes ago)

doggirl-thumbsup Probably a good idea in the future to read both panels of a meme before jumping in uniformed

[–] Riffraffintheroom@hexbear.net 8 points 1 hour ago

What are you playing dumb?

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 13 points 2 hours ago

I mean, either you have a state that actually spend the resources to house people, or you get that.

[–] EmmiLime@lemmy.ml 13 points 2 hours ago (2 children)
[–] buckykat@hexbear.net 21 points 2 hours ago

Those damned Soviets haven't done any maintenance on them since 1991

[–] Malica@lemmy.zip 7 points 2 hours ago

Maybe I'm just bitter about the boatload of money I paid for repairs only for the fucking elevator to work only 3 months of the year. I was on floor 13. I remember similar complaints from others.