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You’re pretending that the blocks were built to house the homeless, when it was well to do families being forced into them. They lacked just about everything one can desire. So ya I don’t think the inhabitants of these places remember them fondly.
I am happy my grandparents can't read your comment. And neither can my great grandfather.
I would be happy to learn about your family’s experience in a commie block. Which country were you guys from? What did your grandparents do for a living? Were they living in the country before Soviet occupation or after? High ranking party officials didn't stay in commie blocks that's all I meant.
Russia. Great grandfather was woodworker(lost finger on job), grandma was language teacher(and worked in kidergarden for some time), other was computer operator back when it was specialized job(and I think programmer too? Not sure.), grandpa served in military until retirement, other died before I was born, so I don't know much. And great grandfather's family was basically serfs in the middle of nowhere without sewers, running water, central heating, roads, electricity ~~and soviet goverment~~.
Yeah... Every time someone says how much better stalinkas were than hurchevkas and brezhnevkas, they tend to ignore that mostly party elite lived there. Unless city had no stalinkas, then party elite had nowhere else to live other than commie blocks.
Thank you for sharing. A computer operator back then could have been working with the space program, either way thats a pretty cool and important job. So to understand correctly, your family was swept out of a tough rural life and lived a better life with more opportunities within the block? They did not resent the living conditions? Was there ever a time where they wanted more, and did any of them live to see the wall collapse?
My statement more aimed at satalite nations of the USSR and not russia itself, but I love history, and personal lived history is my favorite, so really appreciate you sharing yours!