What does leftypol think about the soviet cultural palaces that were built to provide entertainment and enlightenment to their citizens? There isn't a whole lot I know about them, but the one in Warsaw has a movie theatre, meeting hall, swimming pool, and concert hall. What should socialists do to make life worth living?
Cultural Palaces
Colton Reyes
John Morris
Great places where you could be cultured and healthy for a few kopeks
Anthony Lewis
I would wager that modern urban planning prescribes spreading those facilities out, instead of building it all in one location
Oliver Parker
That sounds fantastic, honestly. Were they well maintained?
Adam Richardson
I like he idea of them being in a single location. Similar to a shopping mall except dedicated towards personal development and leisure rather than mindless consumerism. It would be an excellent place to socialize and form a community, although I’d expect that larger cities would need several such facilities to avoid overcrowding.
Carson Murphy
In America at least common spaces have been destroyed on so many levels, and shopping malls and other awful private spheres have filled the void. We definitely need public spaces for people to enjoy. That is one thing from the Soviet Union that I may actually be envious of. A society that really cared about investing in this kind of infrastructure.
Ayden Richardson
based
Landon Morgan
nationalize walmart will do
Sebastian Wood
Pic related was the best one. Too bad the conservative government of West Germany decided to destroy it and to build a literal feudal castle (!!) instead of it after "reunification"
It hosted a library, a bowling club, a pool billard hall, an arcade video game hall, restaurants and the fucking GDR parlament at the same time
Landon Ramirez
I mean user, it was knocked down because it was full of asbestosis…
Leo Robinson
My own school was suffering from asbestosis, so was my uni. None of the building were knocked down. You believe this excuse? The Palast der Republik was a political offense.
Grayson Garcia
yeah, i'm sure that's all it was
Nolan Jackson
Colton Martin
Logan Gomez
porky must pay
Julian Foster
before the soviets liberated poland they were living in the fucking woods wiping their ass with leafs
Alexander Allen
zabij się ty zjankesowany pedale
Bentley Foster
Based feudal Poland BTFO Canada
Landon Thomas
The soviets didn't demolish it, the DDR did mostly due to post-war reconstruction costs for it being prohibitively expensive you troglodyte. Besides it was, and the reconstruction is, garbage architecture. It only goes to show how deeply reactionary the Yankee-German government is.
Get it into your dullard head that the culture you're so eager to defend is that of a pathetic long-gone inbred aristocracy, not of the masses. But i know you're always going to happily deepthroat the elites like the house nigger you are.
hilarious that you think there is a unified 'indo-european culture' to speak of, read a fucking book faggot
Aaron Stewart
what was this in response to?
Mason Hughes
Benjamin Walker
I really like the idea, and I think it should be revived in some form. One of the big social problems in the USA is the "bowling alone" problem, and this would be one way to counter that. These days, at least in small towns like where I grew up, the only formal social organizations are churches, as well as a few like the Freemasons and Rotary that fwiu are mostly just "networking" for petty-bourg. Kroger is literally the center of the community here. Which is still better than a mall, but it'd be nice if there were something more.
You can kind of see the seed of this idea in a article Lenin wrote for Pravda pre-revolution, where he expresses admiration for the New York Public Library:
I'm interested in knowing what the palaces are/were like in practice. Apparently they still exist in China (pic related is one in Kaili, Guizhou according to google translate). If anyone here has lived in China or a former Eastern bloc country I'd be curious to hear about them.
Dominic Roberts
god damn lenin was a memer.
Cameron Edwards
I think it is easy to say that the soviets had great vision when regarding architecture and city planning. I would love to not only see buildings designed to benefit people functionally, but aesthetically as well.
Justin Garcia
Thats it man!
Revolutionary community gardens and social spaces will guide the first world revolution. If communist cells can somehow make free to use social spaces to fill the emptyness left by an atomized society. They can shatter modern propery conceptions and raise interest. The place needs to be free and users need to incentivised to mantain it and treasure it. Its not the same as a public park since the users dont keep it and consequuently dont feel like they own it.