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if you're not free to become poor, homeless, and starving, are you really free? (slrpnk.net)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 months ago (23 children)

I’d like to learn more about the Soviet housing system. From my very limited knowledge it seems to be one of the few sectors of the economy that actually functioned reasonably well. But maybe I’m missing something.

[–] [email protected] 71 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (17 children)

"functioned" is the key word there. No elevators, terrible insulation, no air conditioning, tiny radiators for heating, small living space for entire families, and infested with bugs. Of course some American apartment buildings check all those boxes too, but it's naïve to assume that soviet apartments were great places to live

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

I know little about Russia, but a quote from earlier this year from a Russian:

Boris Vishnevsky, a member of the St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly, responded to Beglov's remarks, saying in a Telegram post that "a quarter of Russians do not have centralized sewerage," citing data from Rosstat, Russia's state statistics service.

"And basically, it is hard to imagine something more gender-neutral than a backyard 'latrine'-style toilet," he added.

For context: In response to criticizing gender neutral toilets in Ukraine (I don't know if they mean individual/private unisex bathrooms, or actual group restrooms they think are trans bathrooms, it's not the point of this discussion anyways).

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