Damn, that commie architecture is so sad. Is that in the Democratic Pedophile Republic of America?
Good video on how much of a suburban hell most of the US has become:
I expect this sort of stuff will make the collapse in the US far worse than it was for USSR. Car culture entirely depends on well functioning logistics. Once those start to break down then all hell is going to break loose. It’s only going to take a short disruption of food and fuel being delivered to the suburbs to make them unlivable.
Well if the system fails a bit, your bus or tram won’t drive because the driver isn’t paid.
If the system fails so hard that fuel isn’t available at all, you have a catastrophe uncompatible to industrial society in total.
People actually did keep going to their jobs during USSR collapse even when their salaries weren’t coming in. A lot of infrastructure kept working because of that. Again, a very different type of society from what we see in the US.
For sure. Everything about US infrastructure is built around cars and the availability of gas. If gas becomes a luxury commodity, then the suburbs could to turn into mad max.
Indeed, and the whole culture of rugged individualism doesn’t really help things either. People in a socialist society like USSR were able to come together and help each other, but in the US it’s going to be dog eat dog.
All of those houses are slightly different…
Perfectly illustrating how superficial freedom of choice is in the west.
You have the right to choose between Coca Cola and Pepsi Cola and between McDonald’s and Burger King! This is freedom!
truly, the freedom need! lol
On the one hand, I guess it’s a more efficient packing of people into urban areas than having large green spaces. On the other hand, it’s fucking depressing, and I think kids miss something in childhood without psuedo wild spaces to go explore alone.
If you’re talking about the OP image, it’s actually inefficient as fuck. The houses depicted there house the same number of people as one or maybe two apartment blocks. And those apartment blocks can then have a bunch of greenery between them.
And the space can be more walkable, with grocery stores, schools, clinics, and more nearby.
I think you just need well-placed parks in the urban areas. I think it’s worth asking ourselves why we don’t really hear people bemoan the upbringing and experiences of kids from really urban cities like NYC or Tokyo. But when it comes to Soviet apartment blocs, this becomes a real concern. I think it’s a double-standard that’s been propagandized onto us.
Notice the multiple “I thinks” – it’s not like I’m out here doing surveys on the topic. This is just how it seems to me.
Actually maintained soviet apartment blocs aren’t nearly as depressing as the ones taken in winter, that haven’t been maintained properly since the dissolution of socialism:
These apartments provided housing for people that lived largely in shacks, where smoke from heating caused early deaths:
Soviet city planning made things walkable, with schools, playgrounds, and greenery within walking distance from nearly every apartment.
To be clear, I think the homes being made fun of in the original picture were supposed to be Western homes. They certainly look like many subdivisions in the US.
I haven’t actually seen propaganda about Soviet housing. The pictures you posted just look like the poorer areas of any western city. We stayed in La Mina (on accident) when we visited Barcelona. Your pictures look better than La Mina!
exactly! i grew up in one of those commie blocks and it was genuinely nice. sure, i didnt have my personal room, it is like a 2 room house but still its pretty good because of its location. theres greenery around me, theres playgrounds, idk and it was built in the 70s or 80s and is still holding strong even after decades of regular earthquakes, some of which where like 7.0-8.0 rating. ive moved from there to a newly built apartment but i still prefer that one even tho this new house is twice as big.
Sounds really nice!
I’ve seen you post the last one before, what’s the source for it?
I believe I originally found it while looking for similar images. A good bit of info on housing I know came from Hakim’s video on soviet housing. I’d love to have a primary source document to reference, such as a newspaper or book, but for images I usually grab them from internet searches.
It seems it might be “The People’s dining room in the Nizhny Novgorod region” by Mikhail Dmitriev
Interesting! I’ll have to check that out later, thanks comrade!
It’s hard to find anything about it on the english internet, there’s a bit more on the russian it seems, but it’s harder to navigate it when you don’t speak the language.
Yea that’s entirely fair. One day for me, maybe, haha.
I grew up in a Soviet apartment bloc, and I did way more exploring outside than kids living in suburbia could ever hope to. For one, it was completely safe to let kids go out and play on their own. There were always green spaces and playgrounds between a few apartment buildings, and you’d go and play there.
Can confirm. We used to play till 10PM (cause we had to wake up early for school) around the apartment bloc and around the neighbourhood. In the pre-cellpone era parents would call their kids from their balconies to come home. At the height of organized crime that arose post-1989, people felt that safe about their kids playing unsupervised.
Yeah, it’s kind of unthinkable today honestly. I don’t know anybody who’d just let their kids out on their own, and you’d probably get charged with neglect if you did.
A friend got in trouble for letting her kids play IN HER SUBURBAN BACKYARD without her watching them. A neighbour called the authorities.
Kids are basically treated like pets nowadays.
Now that everyone buys everything off Amazon, even inside houses I am noticing people are owning a lot of the same first-that-came-up-in-a-search items.
Westerners
USA
We are not the same
Canada does this too
We do it in Europe too, but maybe for 10-20 houses. Not 200
Australia definitely does this. Developers will just build an entire town with houses that all look something like this (except its a maze that’s unreasonably difficult to navigate) 0 public transport and something like 1 road in and out that everyone needs to drive through to get to there job everyday.
if it wasn’t mazelike, unwelcome outsiders could wander in. theives and no-goodniks and so-on
If I were a burglar the amazing maze would have definetly stopped me.
They look like the houses in a housing development in the United States.
…That’s exactly what they are. Are you not getting the joke or am I not getting yours?
Nah man, you don’t understand, i have the LIFTED f-150… dale has the reular f-150
I still don’t understand every version of 150 and at this point, I’m afraid to ask
Hey my house has the door on the left in my block! And its cyan! Not like the others with their flat ugly blue doors!
Let’s see what the HOA has to say about that!
Dont drag europe into this
You know you’re almost home when you look down from the plane and see a patchwork of fields and houses with barely a straight line in sight
I crossed my eyes, but I don’t see the picture.
It’s a svastica
American freedom is psychological marketing.
American culture is bad for humanity.
We are freerange slaves building a monster with a completely evil heart.
Im honestly starting to believe those that participate in American culture will not be saved. Not like a rapture in the weird magical sense… But that the world will get tougher and Americans will be so dumb and ignorant that they will succumb to actual reality because they sold their souls to a false lifestyle and don’t even understand honest humanity.
America is like a psychopath that takes from your holy essence and demands you give back gratitude and thanks for the thefts of your authenticity.
