this is east Germany

[realIBeliX]

They are simple, USSR didnt need awesome ass barbie houses. Needed simple, good apartments.

[GospozhaAlexeyeva]

Yes, they are ugly because USSR and Germany were ruined after WW2. There was no place to live. But in Sovet Union we got this flats for free. Now nobody give me a flat for free

[antonyjohn]

The GDR provided homes at affordable rents, good education and health services, full employment, security in old age. All was not bad. After annexation by West Germany the former GDR citizens suffered unemployment or low wages, insecurity in old age, and the loss of their Socialist culture and heritage. All the political parties existed in the GDR in the National Front coalition, so free elections with rival parties/candidates could have been allowed under a reformed Socialist Constitution .

[AlfredDolly]

@antonyjohn The GDR made sure that anyone who disagreed with them was never heard from again. The wall and the inner border existed because the Stasi couldn't keep an eye on everyone no matter how hard they tried.

[SarsecPally]

And all this can be yours for the small price of being totally submissive to the government.

[Franz40]

I hate these socialistic ugly grey buildings

[gerajmar]

Me gusta ese vecindario y no es porque viva en un lugar feo, parece tranquilo, soleado, viviría sin problema.

[gerajmar]

I like that neighboarhood.

[m27a68v71]

They are quite good always..........

Buildings in Hong Kong are similar to them

[m27a68v71]

@m27a68v71

Sorry,it is They are quite good already..........

[brettsworld99]

was this filmed before they were reunified?

[CharlesVariations]

At least everyone was guaranteed work, home, and education in these so called "TOTALITARIAN DICTATORSHIPS"...

Look at you capitalists now, you're failing all over the world. It's even worse in Europe than it is in North America.

[BPKesq]

@CharlesVariations And they shot you if you tried to escape their "worker's paradise." Why would anyone want to escape a paradise and why would the state feel the need to shoot people who had this desire? Perhaps it wasn't a paradise?

[weaselfierce]

@BPKesq Why do thousands flee every year from the capitalist democratic paradise in Mexico ? More people die in the Arizona desert every 3 years that died crossing the German border in 50.

[weaselfierce]

@CharlesVariations "there's no freedom in the USSR. You are not free to be without a job, you are not free to be homeless, you are not free to be starving, you are not free to die without health care"

[CharlesVariations]

@weaselfierce

I've seen that quotation elsewhere. Very nice.

[Iggy3d]

This cheap and ugly socialist architecture disfigured East European cities.

[MrLion1885]

@Iggy3d They took there ideas from the French architect LeCorbousier. There are many places like this all over industrial Europe, East and West.

[Iggy3d]

@MrLion1885 that is true, sadly.

[ilkkavu]

@Iggy3d Who gives a shit about architecture? The important thing is that people can house themselves, and are not homeless.

[doncoro]

@ilkkavu

you deserve to live in one of those buildings

[lysol5555]

@Iggy3d you find the exact same architecture from any capitalist countries

[Iggy3d]

@lysol5555 true, but less systematically. Some of the buildings built between 1945 and 1989 in the West can be beautiful. Not in East Germany, or Poland, or Azerbaijan for that matter.

[TheBenbarton]

Is this meant to be bad? I live in much worse conditions in London but we still got a massive crime/murder rate.

[NellPetrova]

It's like better version of my town in Bulgaria (its more quietly and more clean)

[otacs2]

@NellPetrova You live in Bulgaria? That must be a very beautiful country, or not?

[NellPetrova]

@otacs2 Bulgaria is country with really beautiful nature, but I personally don't like the most of our cities and towns. The resorts are lovely for excursion. This is good ad, isn't it? :D :P

[NellPetrova]

It's like better version (its more quietly) of my town in Bulgaria

[NellPetrova]

its really quietly

[Inspektisto]

Wspaniałe wzorowe socjalistyczne osiedla mieszkaniowe.Teraz ta kontrrewolucyjna chołota może sobie o takich tylko pomarzyć.

[nomint]

It looks similar to Russian cities

[StG45m]

@nomint

Because those were Russian architects who influenced DDR architects.

[tolletapirhuefte]

wie scheisse von dir das letzte kackviertel in der letzten stadt zu filmen und allgemein unter ost deutschland laufen zu lassen....vollhorst ey. vergess mal nich die schönen ecken!!!

[ThomarioMoon]

und welche stadt ist das jetzt

[spazmonkey618]

Hi east Germany!

=3

[BobCrane787]

Better than north korea.

[rotwart]

@BobCrane787 Better than the UK.

[SMGJohn]

@BobCrane787 North Korean apartments are high quality and are actually very comfortable to live in. They are all huge space but since Fascist government decided to cut down maintance costs they all look like their falling apart like in Russia

[xxxdieselyyy2]

@BobCrane787 ------------>Actually not. NK gave u bigger flats, and u got considerably more sqft.

[BobCrane787]

@xxxdieselyyy2 East Germany kept a stable power grid and rural housing wasnt sub standard thus keeping the farmers from becoming peasents.

[xxxdieselyyy2]

@BobCrane787 ------------->The GDR also had superior power generation capacity , much superior. DPRK's electricity grid was pretty stable till the Ardorous march. One thing tho, GDR sort of fell to capitalism in the year 1989, DPRK held fort. It would b interesting to see how GDR would've turned out had they held on like DPRK.

[bevardoss]

in lithuania same shit :D

[kajman87]

All the former communist states look similarly

[slimv29]

@kajman87 well, not quite

[TheGermanItalianGuy2]

theres a reason why those apartments are cheap and easy to manage

[kajman87]

@TheGermanItalianGuy2 Cheap? In Slovakia, 2-room apartment costs from 40,000 (smaller towns) to 90,000€ (capital city). It is not cheap!

[TheGermanItalianGuy2]

It's becuase a mix of high property taxes overpopulation and high inflation thats why it costs that there

[cencen12]

like in finland :D

[jeremynv89523]

They tell us that we're supposed to think these buildings are ugly.

Why, then, do I think they're beautiful? Such exquisite geometry.

[skatenotwar]

@jeremynv89523 I totally agree.

[neonaction]

@jeremynv89523 and houses in capitalist countries also look like that anyway.

[jumpnjza2]

@jeremynv89523

Fascist propaganda. People miss the GDR.

[CharlieKdiary]

I'm sorry but if this place was so great and magical like you people say it is, why did thousands of people try to escape the clutches of the socialist government. I think you need to stop and think about what is more important, individual freedom? or nearby schools? "Wow a nearby school! and it's only 5 minutes away! Though all they teach me is communist propaganda and how to spy on my neighbors!"- sarcasm intended.

[CzechShooter]

@CharlieKdiary yeah totally!! People do not understand and choose to live the romantic socialistic dream... like we did not have the experience..

[SoviMusic]

@CharlieKdiary because those people wanted only the west that they know anything about it exepted rfa commercial and every shit

[konuralpilbay]

@CharlieKdiary

stupid! tin head!

[Fetchdafish]

However great life in the socialist world may have been, it really ought to be telling how the whole place seemed to run out of money at once.

[jeremynv89523]

@Fetchdafish And now the capitalist world is running out of money. lol

[Fetchdafish]

@jeremynv89523

Only because of government waste.

[hitlerjorge]

haha, germany had EVERYTHING stolen from them by the damn communist, who "shared" the loot amongst its self, basterds

[fbw71u]

Those buildings look almost like the one from Romania...

[Elberiver11]

Genau solche Kotz-Gegenden gibt es auch im Westen, HAAR GENAU gleich!

Ich bin in so was aufgewachsen, pfui teufel, ich hasse diese pervers hässlichen BETON STÄDTE, ist nicht typisch DDR; gibt es überall in Europa, auch Westeuropa.

Verstehe nicht wie man seine Kindern in so was aufwachsen lassen kann!

[calatis4u]

@Elberiver11 endlich, du hast recht! haus mit land und garten in die natur das ist prima. aber in D ist es sehr teuer, dann was soll ich tun? ich denke rumanien ist eine gute altrnativ!, oder?

[TheVincent78]

na und, sozialhilfeempfänger im heutigen kapitalismus wären froh über solche wohnungen, auch wenn sie hässlich sind.

[movies4n]

Das hatte die DDR auch: unfähige Politgreise, totgeschossene Menschen an der Mauer, Todesurteile für Interviews mit Westmedien, den paranoiden Mörder Mielke, eine zusammenbrechende Wirtschaft, ein eingesperrtes Volk. Und keinen Mietwucher...ganz toll.

[carinhall1]

Die DDR hatte preiswerte Mieten.- Mietwucher gab es nicht.

[hilletehnoob]

''long live ddr''.... are you crazy? should a people be separed only because soviets wanted power in europe»???? you are crazy!!! there is only one germany, the great germany!!!!!!!!

[realdealforsure]

but without Prussia Silesia and Pomerania

[hilletehnoob]

nop, idiot

[realdealforsure]

go suck Hitler's cock

[18Zoll]

dit sieht ja aus wie hellersdorf da hat sich sowieso nichts geändert sieht heut noch genauso aus wie zu DDR zeiten ....

[SEFARAD2K4]

The buildings are great, my father is an architect. After the war, they needed fast housing, millions of people were housed within 5 years and no Marshal Plan, no foreign help was there, we did it on our own for our own people for no profit! It was true humanity!

[Migg83]

And what about the Stasi? Where'nt you affraid all the time?

[SEFARAD2K4]

What about it? Every nation has a security force. The FBI, NSA, Homeland Security...ICE...

[Migg83]

The Stasi terrorised their own people. Communism sucks, and listening to the music you want rules!, watching the movies you want rules!, and reading the books you want rules!. and family's divided by a concrete wall is "un-natural"

[MrRedFredSaid]

@migg -

You don't think the FBI has terrorized its own people? Or the CIA? Get real.

[urbanxs1]

@SEFARAD2K4 in the minds of idiots stasi was something like the fbi. lol

[SEFARAD2K4]

Stasi was like the FBI, it was a federal investigative service. Your dogmatism blinds you.

[pchocIV]

The Stasi would harrass many innocent GDR citizens and destroy their lives. 99.999% of U.S. citizens have never met the FBi, NSA, etc. They only harass drug dealers and terrorists...and they usually don't even arrest them.

[Falco19121989]

So sah es damals auch aus xD

zumindest weiß ich das ausm Fernsehen und durch erzählungen von Zeitzeugen.

[cullyvan]

Looks more likfe a spanish resort town :)

[MrRein1988]

Well I lived in 9 floor house with a total of 144 apartments, 3 and 4 rooms types.

These houses were well built, nice thermoisolation, centralised heating, water supply and electricity. By the way sound isolation was nice as well - I never heard much of what was happening outside.

Oh and I forgot to mention that 90% of ex-soviet republics have around 80% of their population living in soviet houses. 5, 9, 12 floor ones. They are not building new ones. Guess why?

[MrRein1988]

They were perfectly planned to save space and social life - in every suburb there was a strict plan of building these houses, hospitals, nurseries and schools were always within 5 minutes drive, no matter where or in which suburb you live in. I studied in Riga's secondary school number 92.

Does that say anything ? Well at least the fact that there is AT LEAST 91 more secondary schools. And there is only 1 million people living in Riga.

[SEFARAD2K4]

Thank you so much for not being afraid to speak the truth! So many bash and lie about what it was really like. But those of us who know. have to speak up and counter the lies. Thank you!

[cullyvan]

I think part of the thing about these buildings is that the people who lived there were good neighbours as well. These blocks would never work in the US or the UK. Ive travelled to the GDR in 1988 and 1989 and enjoyed it immensely by the way. I didnt mean to be derogatory,

[MoonAharshMistress]

could you hear the people above, feet walking about tho?

I hate that...were you allowed to choose the flat u lived in? Or did you have to stay put in the one the council allocated you?

Just very interested in what the DDr was like? Thank you

[jhami49702]

This might be East Germany but I do not look it...If I recall everything is Black and grey or white. If you take a look at the parking lot non of the cars look like East Germany cars...Is this Picture of the fromer East germany that what it should say then....

[moumeli]

This buildings are not only in East Germany - you can see this also in Munich, Hamburg, Cologne, Nuremberg, Hannover, Dortmund, and so on and so on and so on ...

Stupid to think, that this is an eastern style only

[aleksecond]

It's a USSR style - all world, where build soviet builders look like Moscow 1970th....

[KronprinzAdam]

You find them from Berlin to Mongolia...

I prefer fachwerk, looks nicer!!

[seokhwi]

This is actually quite a semblance with some of the public housing looked like in Asian states, some of the most developed states with high GDP/capital such as Singapore, Hong Kong and Japan.

Of course, in Singapore, the public housing is much more diversified and meticulous in design. Wiki it, you will realise.

[anakore3]

it´s a normal place

[henrique1944]

I think Mr O.Niemayer copied from Berlin the Architeture of Brasilia . When I saw the video I thought it were Brasília.

[dadecountyhustler305]

From an aerial view on google earth. You can tell there was a lot of central planning as far as the buildings being in precise pre-coordinated place.

[Ultra1975]

the unforgetable stalinist architecture... many beautifull buildings made on that kind of architecture can also been seen also throught Yugoslavia, where i live

[fritredage]

ja..kind of boring.....i would get crazy if living there...

[janhr1]

Ummm...I think in Yugoslavia we had it a little better, nicer and richer...lol

[sirixxxx]

For sure yugoslavia was/is not richer. But its a more beatiful place to live.

[jikkieh]

looks like North Korea too

[jojojian]

communist coutries always look the same

[paramsaram]

oh.. looks like my home-town.. in Osaka, Japan..

[joepickard]

Municipal building works in places such as Osaka and Niigata were as centrally-planned as any venture undertaken by governments in the satellite states. the crucial difference is that Japan had an economy that worked.

[paramsaram]

i don't think our economy is working any better than them.. collapsing almost every 5years.. our country looks more tired than e.germany in late 1980s..

[Streatham1966]

I think the breathing in the background makes it.

[Flawerwell]

Very similar to my town in Poland.

[ursucarnivor]

you can find a lot of these blocks in Romania too same communist building style

[TheGermanItalianGuy2]

Yea those biuldings are easy to biuld and easy to manage they got em in all 15 Former Soviet Republics

[ursucarnivor]

i know they got them i live in east europe wtf:))))

[kirgiz1981]

keine Unterschied zu den Wohnsiedlungen in West-Deutschland...

[Iroh72]

sieht garnicht mal so schlecht aus...

[suspect899]

very beautiful houses!

long live DDR

[KronprinzAdam]

If you like to hear every night the toilette of the neighbors, and you have to live very quietly like sick people because otherwise the neighbors may call the Gestapo, the Stasi or whatever!!

Build yourself a Fachwerk!!

[spaceman1979]

Reminds me of Billingham, Teesside, UK

[feodor24]

omg, looks like Russia... 100%

[Ninelon]

Yeah, the houses looks very very simmilar!

[OOIEatte]

It reminds me of Finland.

[MoonlitNight77]

Nich dass noch jemand glaubt, Erfurt is die reinste Platte ...