Powerful Photos of Life in the Old Glasgow Tenement Blocks

Re:Powerful Photos of Life in the Old Glasgow Tenement Block... by nine_k on Thursday December 27, 2018 @03:24PM (#18772323)

The photos have a striking similarity to what I've seen in Soviet Union as a child, in the end of 1970s. I can easily imagine myself one of these children on the photos, doing the same things.

Of course, not all parts of Soviet cities were as rundown, much like not all parts of Glasgow were as rundown.

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Re:Powerful Photos of Life in the Old Glasgow Tenement Block... by agapon on Thursday December 27, 2018 @05:18PM (#18773130)

I have recently been to Morozov Tenements in Tver, Russia (originally built in 18xx for workers of Morozov textile factory there) and people still live like that to this day. It's really hard to believe that that can be within a couple of hours travel time from Moscow. https://nvdaily.ru/info/129950.html

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Re:Powerful Photos of Life in the Old Glasgow Tenement Block... by expertentipp on Friday December 28, 2018 @03:29AM (#18775528)

It appears that most of the populations on both sides were miserable, while having the image of the other side shaped by the other's side propaganda, culture, and pop-culture.

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