2026-10-07 19:44 UTC
Replies (21)
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@UpAndAtThem@lemmy.world 2026-10-07 20:10
Now with suicide nets!
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@Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 2026-10-07 20:10
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
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@gnate@lemmy.world 2026-10-07 20:18
To be fair, being good enough isn’t the only reason for something to be in current use.
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@UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2026-10-07 20:56
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.
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@half_built_pyramids@lemmy.world 2026-10-07 20:57
Ussr can do good thing. Can also do bad thing. Problem with bad things, like bad arguments, lack thought or think about self. Also call self reflection. Ask self, apartments good, yes. Ask self, stalin good, on whole probably not. Ask self, authoritarianism good, on whole no is bad. Ask self, shit posting on lemmy good, depends.
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@Malica@lemmy.zip 2026-10-07 21:10
Lol I wouldn’t brag on the blocs comrade, there are many problems with them.
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@gollumsfish@lemmy.zip 2026-10-08 05:55
The Soviet onion was horrible, but those are the few quite good things.
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@GarboDog@lemmy.world 2026-10-08 07:08
Honestly, the “commie blocks” are really good idea and should be built more often in areas with high homelessness and housing issues. Why should US taxes go to blowing up elementary schools/other people’s homes when it can go towards building homes and helping others in need?
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@Fleppensteijn@sh.itjust.works 2026-10-08 08:25
It just looks like ugliness is the point. Grow some fruit trees or community gardens or something so we don’t need to be surrounded by concrete and empty patches of grass.
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@CyroSignal@lemmy.world 2026-10-08 09:14
I’m just here for the comments…
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@dektep@lemmy.world 2026-10-08 13:59
wouldn’t liberals approve of this?
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@manuallybreathing@lemmy.ml 2026-10-08 14:04
The government of the PRC is planning to build 200,000 new public housing appartments in hongkong, tyranny i tells ya
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@chewypoops@lemmy.world 2026-10-08 17:33
Famously Communist Vancouver, Canada: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vancouver_special
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@heartSagan5@lemmy.zip 2026-10-08 17:50
Why does it suggest liberals are scared of this? Aren’t they okay with Projects for affordable housing?
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@shuvit@lemmy.ml 2026-10-08 18:14
Remember when Jane Byrne tried to vacation at Cabrini? Good times.
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@Unpigged@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-10-08 20:56
That’s so much bullshit. In post war period in cities and towns housing was mostly communal living in a cheap barrack style buildings split in rooms. A family was usually granted a small room with shared toilet and kitchen. Pressure was created not by post war ruin (it sure didn’t help but >90% of territory never saw a foot of German soldier, >50% of population lived east to the easternmost front line) but by aggressive industrialization that included resettlements and redevelopments of villages and smaller towns. Many houses were built by workers in their spare time after work, on a land granted by the state and using construction materials provided by the employer (ie factory or plant). As the barracks aged and suffered from a terrible construction quality, over the next 10-15 years it put more pressure to have a better solution. Cue khrushchevka, late 50s/early 60s onwards. Then brezhnevki with some improvements over bare minimal “comfort” of previous gen, and eventually from 70s onwards to the end of soviets the massive prefab took hold. There were countless experimental projects at different times and in different configurations, from 3 storey alpha builds of Khrushchevkas to Kyiv’s Podil 4 blocks project of late 80s More pedantically: wartime destruction exacerbated the Soviet housing shortage, but it wasn’t the fundamental explanation for the scale and duration of the postwar housing construction program. Even if it’s a meme, and it rips the piss out of liberals or whatever, such mistakes make them easy target and work only in echo chambers.
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@Nalivai@lemmy.world 2026-10-08 23:00
It’s so incredibly clear when someone talks about soviet housing without setting a foor in one. You can say a lot about those, but saying the word quality about them will be actually a crime. For example, mine had a hole between the panels big enough, you could put your hand out and grab loose concrete from the wall. It was 4th floor. My mom had to work 15 years without changing jobs to be able to get one.
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@BillCheddar@lemmy.world 2026-10-09 07:07
The hardest part about getting anything done in America is that every decision has to be approved by people who aren’t going to use the solution anyway. School funding is decided by people who either don’t have school-aged children or who send their kids to private schools. Social Security laws – which only change to affect future generations of retirees, not current and soon-to retirees – are decided by retirees. And so, the ability to put up large apartment complexes (and let’s make them nicer and include proper green space and all that) is decided by people who won’t live there and who aren’t going to walk, bike, or drive to the place where we would build the goddamn housing in the first place. That’s the part that riles me up the most: the number of people who will vote to stop someone else from getting something they need, because the voter doesn’t agree with the choice or the outcome. Like, if we could affordably build houses for everyone, Karen P Asshat would vote yes. But ugly apartments? With all the apartment people living there? She votes no. I’ve been in politics 35 years now and i have no answer for how to fix that. America is a nation of cockblockers, fundamentally.
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@AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world 2026-10-09 17:12
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@HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.world 2026-10-09 21:02
Straw Man : Annihilated You picked one of the best parts about the USSR that 90% of liberals would agree was a good thing.
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@DudleyMason@lemmy.ml 2026-10-10 16:48
But how are landlords supposed to extort a living if there’s plentiful government built housing? Did you monsters even think about your local landleech? They might have to go get jobs if we build thousands of identical apartments all over the country and made them available for 2-3% of average incomes.