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  • Riverside@reddthat.comtomemes@lemmy.worldthat's weird
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    5 days ago

    “Hard economic and historical data” with no sources

    Can’t provide you the exact pages right now, but my sources are:

    -Robert C. Allen’s “Farm to Factory: a reinterpretation of the Soviet industrial revolution”

    -Alec Nove’s “An economic history of the Soviet Union”

    -Albert Szymanski’s “Human Rights in the Soviet Union” and “Is the red flag flying”

    -A. Zveriev’s “Lo que recibe el trabajador soviético además de su salario”




  • Riverside@reddthat.comtomemes@lemmy.worldthat's weird
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    6 days ago

    Soviet architecture is a byproduct of the material circumstances of the moment. The USSR industrialized at an unforeseen speed, took it less than 40 years to reach industrial maturity compared to 100-150 for Great Britain and Germany. They had to build housing for tens of millions of people in newly erected cities from scratch. They managed not only to do that, but to do it fairly, guaranteeing housing for everyone and eliminating homelessness, housing costing 3% of monthly income on average, and on top of that it was built in walkable neighborhoods with a wide variety of services nearby from stores to schools to medical care, and with top notch public transit and urban planning for the time, leaving space for green areas and playgrounds.

    Nothing of that is authoritarian, you’ve been brainwashed by capitalism to hate socialism.


  • You can disengage now. You may or may not reflect on to which degree you’re actually thinking by yourself or just vomiting mass-media by the fact that I pinpointed your country of origin based on two comments on Lemmy, I won’t keep listening to you because I could just as easily listen to the same bullshit by turning on any state Estonian TV station. Have a good and russophobic day