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  • Please don’t punch property. You might hurt yourself!

    But seriously, important point. I’ll never be upset that the downtrodden decided to put a brick thru a bank window but leave the immigrant couple with the small restaurant alone. All too often when folks are desperate enough to start fucking shit up, they just lash out against whatever’s close and it ends up being their own community they’re hurting.












  • Aljernon@lemmy.todaytoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldBut think of the landlords!
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    13 days ago

    I’ve seen this posted before. Important points to consider: Imperial Russia had a housing shortage in the cities due to industrialization occurring and the existing housing was often of poor quality. According to one source: “In major cities, a significant portion of housing consisted of barracks, basements, semi-basements, dormitory-style rooms, dugouts, and semi-dugouts.”

    Then WW1 hit followed by the civil war and housing construction essentially stopped with some housing destroyed in the war. Then in the interwar period, priority was given to industrial construction in the USSR, resulting in low housing construction volumes, with a significant share consisting of temporary housing. Rapid industrialization and increasing population shifts to cities increasing demand. Then WW2 hit and huge amounts of existing housing were destroyed in the fighting.

    So the USSR was in tight spot and did the best they could with limited time and resources which for most Russians ended up being a huge improvement.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Housing_construction_in_the_Soviet_Union