Volt4ire

"Communism kills individualism because their apartments look similar" is an even dumber take than the people who claim socialism doesn't work because they read the book with the talking pigs

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These Soviet-era structures are the housing blocks communism left behind. All were built after World War II to cheaply house the masses in a way that jived with communist ideology: near-identical two- and three-bedroom apartments. 📸: Zupagrafika
https://wired.trib.al/fC1XvpJ

Ugly or Beautiful? The Housing Blocks Communism Left Behind

Zupagrafika's new book captures modernist and brutalist architecture in Germany, Hungary, Poland, Ukraine, and Russia.

Apr 6, 2021 at 2:21pmWeb
Show threadNemo_bis 🌈Apr 6, 2021
@volt4ire I wonder if they heard about #Tolyatti https://jacobinmag.com/2021/03/tolyatti-russia-communist-city-auto-industry or St. Louis, for that matter.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pruitt%E2%80%93Igoe
What a Communist City Can Teach Us About Urban Planning

Renamed after Italian Communist leader Palmiro Togliatti, the Russian city of Tolyatti was chosen as home for a FIAT-backed auto plant in 1966, soon making it the USSR’s largest planned industrial center. Yet its urban landscape shows signs of planners’ concern to create livable spaces focused on community need, not just industrial production.