#eastern block

[mktncc]

[k1ngdomfa11]

It's our monthly Eastern Block tonight with DJ Eschar! Bringing you all Soviet Pop, Yugo Pop, Russian and Ukrainian and general Eastern European music videos from the Cold War to the present. Join us at the usual time 9:00 PM (EDT)/6:00 Western! Perhaps not everyone's cup of tea but come clown with us anyway, we always have a good time and you may hear something you like!

[easternblocrelics]

Rostock, East Germany color slide

[dimalink]

Classics from 80s. Automobile of a dream for city roads or go to a country house place. So, it is soon, almost here, a country house season to start. In may. Retro design. And retro style. A little celebration time for all oldschool fans.

Today such automobile – it is a real rare thing. Retro car from age of USSR. Not every day you can this car at the streets. But, I think, that I start more often to see these cars at the streets. And also, even more – I find in the internet Moskvitch show. About racing with old cars.

I am weak in models. But it is more often I can see on the wheels retro cars at the streets. Also, from age of USSR. That is a very positive evet. So, I have seen automobile Volga at the streets. Grey color. It was going by the street road, with a visual -  like a new. And I was impressed. But maybe, maybe, it is not a american luxury car from 60s or 70s. Somekind Mustang class. Or, yes, it is not a sport car from 80s taken from American movies. But it is still ok car to ride, to ride the city, go to a country by car. And even to race with friends - it is good enough!

And also, it was a sport better built up versions. I know. For rally. And it is as a idea – it is actually new car series. So it is even possible to have a rally level. And I heard, that some cars, were built up even more better and they go for export series.

[blankaandcryptids]

How am I supposed to go cryptid hunting when I live in the eastern block and I really don't want to run into the baba yaga?

(the movie in the pic is called Морозко)

[writingonesdreams]

When I see people villinize capitalism here I always want to throw up.

Like sure, no one likes those assholes who sacrifice people for their profit, like those who don't want to shut off russian gas, so we could make Putin squirm and stop the war on Ukraine, since European countries totally could. Slovakia for example totally could, it's just those gas station owning idiots, who would lose money, so they rather let people get slaughtered in Ukraine for that. Bleh.

But capitalism is just the system that allows people to actually work for profit. What would you like more, socialism? Try saying that to someone from the eastern block european countries, who had to live in that disgusting socialism dictorship. Try telling that to Slawic people, like those from Poland, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Slovakia and Czech Republic.

You know how not having capitalism looked like?

No one had anything. No one was motivated to work. Everything belonged to everyone, so no one cared. Nothing worked. Everything looked terrible. Our progress was halted for 30 years and we are going to feel that for generations. We rejoiced when capitalism finally came!

So yeah. Capitalism isn't flawless. But it's way better than all other things out there.

Besides. We don't really live in pure capitalism anyway. We have the support system for ill, weak, disabled, unemployed, we have the healthcare system,...we have human rights, people. It's not like capitalism is the cause of all evil on earth. It's not like all wealthy people are evil incarnated.

Your hate is just so shallow and one-sided. Try expanding you horizons a bit before you come bashing on capitalism. See what it was like, living without it while the rest of the world had it. Half of Europe had been there. It didn't work. It hurt a lot of people. Ignorants.

[yargraves]

Watertower-building, Budapest

[eastern-anarchist]

[deep breath] Why don't we admit that our khrushchevkas / panel buildings from Soviet / Communist times are pretty decent and comfortable places to live, with a good layout, built next to schools and hospitals, and these apartments allowed our grandparents and parents to leave the countryside and become city dwellers?