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toofpic@lemmy.world 2 days agoYou say that USSR was “caring” about anyone’s comfort, I say you don’t know what you are talking about
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toofpic@lemmy.world 2 days agoYou say that USSR was “caring” about anyone’s comfort, I say you don’t know what you are talking about
PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 2 days ago
No idea where your downvote came from. The Kommunalka were horrible, it’s pure revisionist to say otherwise. They were originally constructed to house rural peasants who had been drafted from the countryside to work in urban industry. Multiple families per apartment, etc. etc., with no other choice because that’s you were given.
SethTaylor@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I lived the first 7 years of my life in Romania in a communist-built apartment building that was under the administration of the power plant my parents worked at. My memories of it are straight out of a post-apocalyptic movie. A dozen apartment buildings at the edge of a village, beyond them nothing but a large field, and far in the background the power plant, spewing out black smoke. This was in 1994 though, so I reckon I didn’t get to see the worst of it. We actually had a one-bedroom apartment to ourselves, the four of us.