Context:

"A lot of people like to show pictures of commieblocks in Russia surrounded by bare trees, slushy snow and ice and mud all over the ground, and the grass going brown, and go "look at how terrible communist neighbourhoods are! Imagine if you had to live here! This shows that the Soviet Union is the devil!"

Like, you do realise that's just how winter looks in that region, right? Deciduous trees are a thing? So is snow and mud? It literally has nothing to do with the design of the apartments?"

A rebuke:

"- Honestly, the real problem with Soviet Russia was its authoritarianism"

WHHHAAAAAAATTTTT???!!!!

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