BEHIND AN IRON CURTAIN - GET YOUR NEWER LEVEL OF COMMUNIST PROVIDED APARTMENTS - ZERBST, EAST GERMANY - JULY 23, 1978
These buildings are what modern communist provided housing looks like. I didn't get into any of these but my cousin and her husband lived in the modern housing. I was told by my uncle that the main improvement was that each apartment unit featured a bathroom in the new buildings - so things were looking up! And apparently one apartment dweller is rich enough to have one of those Trabant cars at this place too.
Scary is that New World Order, Green New Deal, etc. types of people write about having us all in compact housing like this - yikes. Unfortunate reality left by the communists is that a lot of Germans still live in this type of housing. But the Germans are more fortunate than other East Bloc places, as the rich west systematically completely gutted all of the buildings and remodeled them. And I have been inside my cousin's place since the wall fell. Still fairly small but now completely modern inside. And there is parking for cars outside.
During the visit where the photo was taken, we were not "really" permitted to visit my cousin, so I didn't meet her until the 1990's. We "could" visit her as she was indeed family, but her husband worked for the local military police office, and we were "advised" it would not be good for him or her to be seen near any westerners. Nutz!
BEHIND AN IRON CURTAIN - GET YOUR NEWER LEVEL OF COMMUNIST PROVIDED APARTMENTS - ZERBST, EAST GERMANY - JULY 23, 1978
These buildings are what modern communist provided housing looks like. I didn't get into any of these but my cousin and her husband lived in the modern housing. I was told by my uncle that the main improvement was that each apartment unit featured a bathroom in the new buildings - so things were looking up! And apparently one apartment dweller is rich enough to have one of those Trabant cars at this place too.
Scary is that New World Order, Green New Deal, etc. types of people write about having us all in compact housing like this - yikes. Unfortunate reality left by the communists is that a lot of Germans still live in this type of housing. But the Germans are more fortunate than other East Bloc places, as the rich west systematically completely gutted all of the buildings and remodeled them. And I have been inside my cousin's place since the wall fell. Still fairly small but now completely modern inside. And there is parking for cars outside.
During the visit where the photo was taken, we were not "really" permitted to visit my cousin, so I didn't meet her until the 1990's. We "could" visit her as she was indeed family, but her husband worked for the local military police office, and we were "advised" it would not be good for him or her to be seen near any westerners. Nutz!