And over here we can see the terrible state of Russian peasant before being liberated by heroic communist freedom...

>this is how life was only 100 years ago
fucking ree. I want to go back.

The oppressive church looms over helpless Russian peasants.

...

>100

Practically Sauron´s tower.

Where are these colored pics coming from?

archive.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/08/russia_in_color_a_century_ago.html#photo31

Animal abuse was rampant

And finally we have people of color forced out of their homes by evil Slavic expansionist and forced to abandon their way of life.

I used to think of communists as people, but the more I talk to them the less human they seem.

Looks /comfy/ senpai, too bad we'll never see it like this again

>looks /comfy/
It wasn't.

It does look oppressive.

Nature and clean water. Just awful.

>these pics look great so everything must have been fine and dandy
Fuck off. Tsar deserved everything he got

Imagine living in such a way. *shutters*

Everything is oppressive to you lefties
Grey commie housing and factories must be so much better right?

People were working in the factory, not living in it, retard.

>homes aren't around the factory
lmao

Unlike this, right Schlomo?

They are and they look quite cozy.

why

It bothers me too user. Recently somebody dug up a 3000 year old pair of trousers that I'd love to sport with all the cool horizontal embroidery, no homo. Rugged fabric. Built to last.

Practical and comfortable. Commie blocks are actually much better than old tenement houses.

>Commie blocks
>comfortable
As a person who actually used to live in one, you're full of shit.

This isn't New York City, user. These aren't tenement houses.

Remind me why it's illegal to kill commies?

I'll be honest, I almost prefer the right. Russian modernist architecture is pretty great.

Have you seen how Russian peasants and workers lived in tsarist Russia? Hell, just read Dostoyevsky.

>As a person who actually used to live in one, you're full of shit.
I'm not him, but where do you live? I live in an ex-Yu commieblock from the 70s, and I have nothing bad to say about it.

>read Dostoyevsky.
What indicates he'd be non-partisan and fair?

Probably because you're one of those insane leftists that thinks all architecture before 1945 is reactionary and needs to be burned down.

>everyone able to appreciate modernist architecture is obviously a leftist
Do you consider Italian futurists leftist?

Also,
>Anno Domini 2017
>unironically using "left" and "right"

Not him, but futurists were extreme progressives and tied to fascism, fascism originates with national syndicalism which is a leftist ideology, plus Mussolini himself was a Marxist for a long time.

>Mussolini himself was a Marxist for a long time
He was in the socialist party, yes, but I find it difficult to believe that he was a marxist. For one, he postulated the nation to be an organic unity of all the groups that create it, which is the exact opposite of the marxist conflict perspective, which is the basis of both classical and contemporary left-wing politics. He was also a nationalist, which would make no sense in a marxian frame, given Marx's analysis of nationalism.
>futurists were extreme progressives and tied to fascism
Correct.
>fascism originates with national syndicalism
That's correct for Spain, where the national syndicalist JONS made a significant part of the core of the Falange until carlists joined, and later, until Franco gutted it. Italian fascism grew from a mixture of the patriotic, pro-war (regarding ww1) wing of the Italian socialist party that followed Mussolini, avant-garde futurists and dissatisfied veterans. Later the core changed, losing out on some former socialist and futurist supporters as Mussolini tied himself closer to the conservatives.
>which is a leftist ideology
Inaccurate. National syndicalism was a synthesis of some ideas commonly held by the left and the right. Or rather, that's what it developed into by the time fascists incorporated it. In Sorel's conception, it would have been closer to what you would consider the left-wing.

And I'll repeat myself
>Anno Domini 2017
>unironically using "left" and "right"

He's just finding a fun way to post these interesting pics you damn spoilsport.

>For one, he postulated the nation to be an organic unity of all the groups that create it, which is the exact opposite of the marxist conflict perspective, which is the basis of both classical and contemporary left-wing politics.
I forgot to stress this point. Given the fascist rejection of the conflict perspective (class conflict in orthodox marxism, sex and ethnicity-based conflict in contemporary left-wing thought) and their emphasis of the state as an organic unity of its subgroups, I don't think it's possible to consider it left-wing in any way. That view regarding the state is mostly shared by ideologies we consider right-wing.

He was somewhat partisan but ended up right wing. Read Demons. Just because you are right wing doesn't mean you didn't realize how brutally poor many Russians were.

It looks comfy, but by the 1900s and 1910s, population growth meant that land holdings for farmers were getting consistently smaller. Social unrest led to ethnic and religious tensions. Political dissidents could face exile or persistent harassment by authorities. In a lot of ways it was better than the USSR circa 1938, but it wasn't a paradise, especially if you were Jewish.

I have relatives that visited St. Petersburg in the 1960s and 1970s and their description of the architecture was the opposite of this. A lot of antique buildings were apparently preserved.

Fuck off fashy, you're just as bad as them.

What is attractive to you about this?
And why can't you live like that now?

I grew up on a Norwegian mountain farm, and it's no more than 15 years since I had to use summer holidays to cut grass and hang it to dry on self made drying fences.
The only stopping you from living your past-romantisizing ways is yourself.

pic related is my father's house, that he built himself

>1st worlder not understanding financial difficulties

wow, so smart

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potemkin_village

They are barefoot and look miserable.

>a picture of jews not being pogrom'd this particular minute means pogroms didn't happen

a giant eyesore

>implying they didn't spend 18 hours a day in the factory and often slept in it

Don't get this one. Alim Khan was a monarch and did oppress people

from the thumbnails I thought they were building trebuchets

You post anime pictures.

Oh fuck off. Commie blocks are the worst, I can easily get past them being extremely generic and boring (just like American suburbs) but they offer little to no privacy (you can literally hear your neighbours talking, taking a shit or doing anything else), almost no personalisation and very little space - which is the reason why, in Czech Republic, garden colonies became the replacement, which is just sad.

As a Norwegian farmer in post-EU times, you think we didn't know financial difficulties?
lmao

Don't bully Nicky.

I live in a commie block and they are comfy. In the past the whole family often lived in one room. It was an improvement for many people.

At least fascism, for all its flaws, doesn't have people constantly starving to death every time.

Not really. Even if you do get into the trouble the government will just step in and bail you out. You basically got no problems.

It's better to share your dwelling with your family than with complete strangers.

>authoritarian statist communism is the only communism

Wew

Can you give me an example of a successful non-authoritarian communist nation?

>Nazi beating up a Communist
It's like the creator had now idea how comically ironic that is.

There is none. Which is why anarchist societies look like a fucking dump, each and every single one from Catalonia to Christiania and Slab City has been a shithole.

Looks like the houses were bigger before the revolution.

It's what they inevitably turn into, yeah.

Most of the unrest was in industrial cities, where working conditions were very poor, the countryside for most of human history was wealthy, which is why everyone lived there.

>a giant eyesore
Fucking kill yourself. Orthodox churches are beautiful.

Based

>ywn take a rest after a long morning plough
>your peasant wife will never bring you bread, cheese and a flagon of beer for lunch
Why even live boys?

I wouldn't mind that place "oppressing" my town. It'd be the only decent architecture around.

Serious though, how was Imperial Russia about religion?
From what I can tell, Muslims were sort of left alone for the most past, they didn't have to be drafted, etc. It was non Orthodox Christians in Poland and the Baltics that were stuffed around.
Is that true?

Ok, Hans

Hey rabbi

Watcha doin'???

Have you ever lived outside of the commieblock?
One doesn't realize what all is wrong until he sees what could be better, south american tribes are happy too, yet they definitely aren't living "comfier" lives (if you want to talk about subjectivity, piss off, try to be slightly unhealthy there).
Again, depends to whom and where - for central Europe it was not, as it was enforced by the state in order to save resources and provide an efficient, not comfy way of life.

yea ur very cool

none, they were all destroyed by imperialism.

Not being able to stand up to outside forces is failing in my book.

For 20th century that looks pretty backwards and third world. At least the Soviets somewhat modernised the Russian peasants.

>russians were perfectly happy until the bolsheviks tricked them into revolution
>what was the 1905 revolution

here, do some reading:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1905_Russian_Revolution