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I’ve noticed that a lot of complaints about the people’s republics is that their stuff isn’t fancy enough. Only one kind of soap, only one kind of apartment, only a handful of cars and they were all unimpressive. Antisocialists either never notice or never care that they have the privilege to be picky.
They'll critisize the housing in the former USSR and ignore the tent cities in the USA.
i mean, their "argument" is:
one useful version of something
i sleep
lots of crappy but colorful versions of the same thing with different names
good stuff
tbf, sometimes it was just one crappy version.
Worse yet, they not only criticize the "went from peasant agrarian to industrial powerhouse in around 30 years" they also fail to address that the VAST majority of the "choice" they have is actually just the same 3 international megacorps in a trenchcoat posing as hundreds of brands.
Not just any industrial powerhouse. Germany is an industrial powerhouse. Italy is an industrial powerhouse.
Socialism produces industrial powerhouses that are putting people into space, building nuclear reactors and inventing revolutionary technologies.
Germany is an industrial powerhouse.
Not for much longer the way things are going.
no matter how much you hate commie blocks, you're an idiot if you think homelessness is an acceptable alternative.
Were/are they pet friendly 👀
Yes. In Poland i only seen pet unfriendlyness move in from the west with the idea of landlord.
Though of course loud and long barking dogs in commieblocks are fucking nightmare.
Oh wow, it’s actually super interesting to know that being pet unfriendly is a western thing. I know when my mom went to Europe (she visited multiple countries, none in the east unfortunately) she told me that she saw dogs pretty much everywhere. It’s nearly impossible to find housing in Canada that is both affordable and medium to large dog friendly.
I love those buildings and live in one, couldn't be happier. Super nice view of the city, and very affordable since where I live many of those buildings still belong to the state.
One advantage many overlook is the amount of natural light, what a.o.t. has important benefits to the mental and physical health of the population. According to Wilfried Stallknecht (an architekt behind many projects in the GDR), the buldings should keep a distance that guaranteed that every appartment had, on the 22. February of the year, at least a room with 2 hours of sunlight. If you walk in those planned areas you see the huge space surrounding the buildings, with lots of green areas, parks, playgrounds and so on.