Commie Blocks got the bad rap for ideological reasons. The US has plenty of NOT commie blocks areas where no normal person would live. And here is an excellent story.
Proper background is also given, especially of WW II which most US population has no concept of and cannot grasp the scale of a destruction of the Eastern Europe, not to speak of the USSR proper. E.g. Voronezh had 90% of its buildings simply destroyed, same goes for Stalingrad, Sevastopol and the list goes on and on and on. People lived in dugouts and rubble all over the place. I know, my father did. Well, guess what? All Soviet commie blocks which have been given... for free to Soviets are privatized today and they are fully owned by overwhelming majority of people. Yep, and many of them are priced in adjusted USD up to and even more than $200,000. Shouldn't this count towards GDP? Nah, I am being facetious.
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