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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

You realize that millions of people living in US and Canada would kill for that right now? It's actually very common at this point for multiple people to share apartments komunalka style because their jobs don't pay a living wage.

Also, you create a false dichotomy here suggesting that if free housing was built the way USSR did it today then it would have to be built to the 1950s standard. Obviously there's absolutely no reason why you couldn't be building modern style apartments.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

komunalka

also, I'm not talking about them. They were a thing in the 50's (after the war) when people were sharing bathrooms or kitchens, they were no longer really a thing in the 80's. In the 80's apartments had their own bathrooms and kitchens.

edit: isn't that basically "Friends" for USA people? :D

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Soviet apartments in the 80s are incomparably better than this, it's incredible that you cannot understand this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tent_cities_in_the_United_States

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

I am surprised that you read my post as against building state owned apartment complex, but then why would I expect anything from somone on the internet.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Also, you create a false dichotomy here suggesting that if free housing was built the way USSR did it today then it would have to be built to the 1950s standard.

I was describing buildings from the `80.

Obviously there’s absolutely no reason why you couldn’t be building modern style apartments.

... so the ones I described as "so many cons that I'm too sad to talk about them and we have a separate wiki page to describe how awful they can get"?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

I was describing buildings from the `80.

Everything I said in my comment still applies if you replace 50 with 80 in it.

… so the ones I described as “so many cons that I’m too sad to talk about them and we have a separate wiki page to describe how awful they can get”?

Once again, you don't seem to understand the simple fact that millions of people in the west have it worse right now.