Soviet pics thread

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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refusenik

The Jews wanted to leave but the government wouldn't let them.

Well, you won't see photos showing censorship or prisons where they tortured their ideological enemies.
Most dictatorships aren't that bad for average people.

I kind of hate how communism made everything look identical. Your picture is obviously Russia but it could've just as easily been Czechoslovakia (where I grew up), Hungary or Poland.

Development of the Central Asian cotton industry, late 1950s

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This, not horrible but certainly not as great as the States during the same time period.

The important thing is that be removed from the party, government, media and financial institutions.

Globalism did the same to the whole world.

this is Novy Arbat avenue BTW, just stone throwing distance to the west from the Kremlin

I kind of hate how calitalism made everything look identical. Your picture is obviously the US but it couldve just as easily been Germany, Canada, or France.

I didn't post a picture.

>Well, you won't see photos showing censorship or prisons where they tortured their ideological enemies.
The same could be said about western Europe nowadays (and probably the whole western world).
Strange how things evolve.

>calitalism

Nice try, you can't deny Ussr had that monotone tone in all their buildings even their clothes looks almost identical like they were trying to imitate the western living style.

he's right you cunt, Khrushchevkas were a crime against humanity, Socialist Classicism looked damn good, but the retard Nikita had to ruin everything

This, say what you want about Stalin but at least his architecture wasn't just prefab slabs of concrete and commieblocks on every corner.

But I like practical design

Praise Stalin, Praise Lenin

If you ignore aesthetics you don't deserve to be talked to. These were real buildings real people lived in, not just some drawing. So if they looked like shit, it reflected negatively on people's mental health.

It looks good but why is Lenin fat?

he looks kinda fat there

any way I'm ok with them rebuilding the church afterwards, it's fucking beautiful, but it would still be cool as hell if this got built

Better music, better films, better books than today. People were also more happy and kids had a real childhood.
There is a reason why so many people think about those times with nostalgia.

Because in communism the party leaders get all the food. It was spitting in the face of the populace the decrease their morale and resolve to fight back.

So am I just strange for having a fetish for practical urilitarian designs, such as warehouses and prisons?

He ate all the bourgeoisie

Actually yeah, if you idealize living in a shipping container or a prison something's obviously not right with you.

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No. You have better taste than neoclassical plebs.

Residential buildings dont need to be works of art, but to be structurally sound cheap and fast to build. After WW2 dozens of millions of soviets were left homeless due to the war. Appeasing antimodernists wasnt a priority back then.

People who fetishize commieblocks are literal idiots, not even the communists themselves fetishized them. It was supposed to be cheap disposable housing and a temporary measure for around 30 years until the USSR gets rich enough to build detached housing for every citizen. Thing is USSR never got richer, it instead collapsed and the commieblocks stayed and now utilitarian idiots like you two unironically think that's the way housing should be handled. As a matter of fact they're not even that practical.

Was a shithole compared to the west. Hope you like not being able to buy consumer stuff and stores that run out of food

I dont find aesthetics in buildings. In machines yes, but not in buildings. Buildings affecting mental health is a bunch of snobbish pseudoscientific BS. By that logic everyone shouldve been mentally uplifted due to the "beauty" of victorian buildings or art deco stuff during the great deppression.

>I like boxes

Still not as shitty as suburbs, but your point is well taken.

The idea would be to have young people living in cheap but well maintained and futureproofed apartment buildings and not needing to own a car, while families live in detached housing.

I live in a commieblock. It's okay.

I think you dropped your fedora back there

Stalinist architecture was literally canned by Khrushchev as "excessive" and "pompous" not "too expensive to build"
this was decade after the war, when USSR was already throwing money at shit like ballistic submarines and nuclear torpedoes, not picking up bricks from Stalingrad streets

Can someone explain what's going on here, is that building just completely covered in lights or what?

Shut up, boxes are neat

What was life like during this period in the Russian far east? Did shit get better the farther you were from Moscow?

4U

You're both a pleb and an autist.

>Did shit get better the farther you were from Moscow?
>better
You mean worse.

Any type of housing will be perceived negatively if it's primarily used by poor people.

This includes trailer parks and project apartments in the US, commie blocks in the FSU, and suburbs in a lot of Western Europe.

I've done some reading and I know people that visited in the 1960s and 70s. Living conditions differed between times and places. Moscow in the 1970s would have been very different from a remote town in the late 1980s. Generally, unemployment was virtually nonexistent, though underemployment was not uncommon and became worse in the 1970s and 1980s. Few people were homeless, though most people lived in small apartments or communal housing with a small cottage in the countryside. If you didn't call Brezhnev a fat, drug addled old codger or insult Lenin you would probably avoid serious persecution, though you could lose your job or face official harassment if you pissed off the authorities in smaller ways. People weren't starving (contrary to American propaganda), but the variety of food was limited and unpredictable, so people would stockpile whatever they could when it was available in order to have better options at home. Things like bananas or pineapple were very rare, but people supplemented their diets with garden or local market produce in season. Public spaces were taken care of in order to give a good impression, while residential areas were still visibly poorer than most American suburbs. Nevertheless, people had opportunities for cultural activities like dancing, traveling (in approved areas), reading, playing music, and seeing performances. Life was modest but simple I'd say.

it's lit up by floodlights and photographed by 50's camera with needlessly long exposure

Suburbs as in American suburbs? That's a superior type of housing, but their problem is urban planning because America bases everything on the availability of the car, and the fact American parents kick out their kids when they're 18 which leads to endless sprawl.

Didn't something like only 10% of people own a car, and almost nobody had tasted a banana?

The thing is commie blocks weren't for poor people, they were for everyone. Doctors, lawyers, etc.

It was an entire fucking continent, shit wouod be good some places and horrible in others. Depends on local leaders.

I think we're on the same page here.

Suburbs are a great solution for raising families.

They should not be the default type of housing for an entire country, people who aren't raising families should be living in apartment buildings within walking distance of everything.

Average street in Minsk, 1980

Not really. Or rather, it depends of the place.

they had like 10 big car manufacturers and even had largest production by volume in the world at some point IIRC, so no, shitload of people had cars post-war, and considering USSR was heavily invested in Africa and did a shitload of trade with them and, you know, they literally grew bananas around Sochi, that other one smells like bullshit, but yes, exotic fruit WAS expensive/rare

That's a laughable statement, my entire family lived in the Belarusian SSR and Bananas were a popular fruit.

Oops sorry for not actually posting the picture.

This could actually pass as "average street in Minsk -2017" all the same
kinda sad to think about it

That's what Belarus was going for, really.

kino (or khno) is comfy music

vore the rich

bs

Commieblocks are perfect for singles, old people and working class families. Fuck off with your American privilege. No European country will ever be sparsely populated and rich enough to afford to house everyone in single homes. And that would not be desirable either, because it would completely obliterate the livability of every city. Euro cities are the best in the world because most people live, work and do their leisure within a walking distance or a 10 minute commute from each other.

Americans have the most retarded zoning laws on the planet and as a result the absolutely worst cities.

WOW! IT LOOKS LIKE MODERB DAY PYONG YANG, NORTH KOREA! Communism is so comfy! XD

Fuck off and go back to plebbit or leftypol.

>American privilege
I'm Eastern European if that wasn't obvious from my previous posts.

Popular, but not available. These fruits were rare delicacies that were strictly rationed whenever some were for sale at all.

I think OP knows that he just wants to get an idea from people who know about it you don't need to be rude when looking at aesthetic photos jeez man

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Looks like something strait out of a dystopia

Why are they drinking Pepsi when everyone knows Coca Cola is objectively superior and only braindead morons prefer the devil's beverage?

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Because they are Russians. Give them a break.

>he doesn't know
redkalinka.com/Russian-Blog/78/_The-day-Pepsi-became-a-great-military-power/

Lol this is often hailed as the worst ecological disaster in history - the depletion and desertification of the Aral Sea and surrounds. Not one of the greatest achievements of central planning.

>Commieblocks are perfect for singles, old people
>old people
yeah, especially the kind of commieblock that has first elevator door a flight of stairs down from the entrance - which itself is usually a full flight of staris above the pavement, dooming geriatrics to mandatory escort or a half an hour mountaineering adventure
I swear whoever designed those fucking things was genuinely evil

There was no Coke there, Pepsi had contract with the Party thanks to 1982 Olympics. It was up to commies to decide who will represent capitalist values to Soviet people.
And no, Coca Cola is shit.

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What is it with russians and having snacks for meals?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zakuski
they had them with drinks

Jews weren't purged after Stalin's death and there were plenty of African students and professionals in Soviet Russia

>there were plenty of African students and professionals in Soviet Russia
yeah, like 200 in a country of 250 million

Ah okay thank you.

The capitalist has no problem building cheap accomodation, look at all the high rises in Hong Kong. That is not the problem.

That line of trees is not a park, it is not anything, it is so open it is isolated. In all these pictures of commieblocks I see a tall building surrounded by wasted space. A real estate developer would turn it into something, they will mold a new structure into its surroundings, they will try something new to set it apart from the competition and capture a niche in the market, if there is no demand they won't leave the land to waste, they will build a basketball court, a comfy garden, something to show prospective tenants and boost demand.

You're using the word "plenty" quite liberally.

>In all these pictures of commieblocks I see a tall building surrounded by wasted space
You either have some hardcore confirmation bias going on, or you're just being full of shit on purpose.
Those things were besieged by parks and playgrounds.

That line of trees is a natural soundwall against traffic.

bs

I also want to live in a box