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  • LeniX@lemmygrad.mltoMemes@lemmygrad.mlKnow the difference
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    2 months ago

    A couple more things about “bad” Soviet apartments:

    • Small patch of land to grow flowers (or potatoes, whichever your babushka prefers)
    • Probably close to a school, a grocery store or some sort of public transport
    • Walls made of real cement and not flammable cardboard
    • Were built to last 50 years, some still going strong after 70 years (at least in my city)

    Yes, there were queues, and you could be waiting for years to get an apartment, I would still prefer the Soviet approach 100 times over.





  • Doesn’t matter. It could have been their “cherry on top, absolute best-case scenario”. They still de-industrialized the EU, bled it dry, cut Russia off from Europe, somewhat weakened Russia militarily (I mean, casualties are casualties even if the ratio is 20:1, 50:1, 100:1 - they are losing well-trained experienced soldiers too).