Those tend to be areas where women have little education
By the 1960s, the USSR had more women engineers than the rest of the planet combined, and some 45% of the PhDs in chemistry in the 1970s were awarded to women. Mistakes were made in the USSR, for sure, but equal access to education between women and men was not one of them.
because it's ugly and depressing
Speak for yourself, this is much more beautiful and less depressing to me than cookie-mold single-family sprawling housing in the US. You're just cherrypicking a bad picture in winter with dead trees.
the poor end up having to live there and with that comes crime and what not and you end up with ghetto style areas
This did NOT happen in the eastern block. Housing was guaranteed but so was work. Crime is mostly a consequence of lack of job prospects enforced on marginalized people, and when you give everyone an education and a fair chance, the vast majority of people gladly accept that. There were no "criminal ghettos" in the Eastern Block. You're just applying the capitalist logic to countries that weren't capitalist. When you don't segregate people by wealth (rich vs poor neighborhood) you eliminate the possibility for ghettos to exist.
So eventually only the poor and desperate moved into the neighborhood. And the neighborhood turned into a rundown ghetto
Sounds like the problem is wealth inequality and poverty, not housing itself. There were no ghettos in the eastern block, period.
Well, those have been built in a highly industrialized and rich country, not in a developing economy. Social housing in China nowadays looks more like your pictures than the one in the post, let's keep in mind that that kind of housing is at this point over 50 years old.
Guaranteed housing, human-centered urban planning organized around moving on foot and in public transit, universal healthcare, free education to the highest level, the abolition of unemployment and the defeat of Nazism aren't left wing enough for you?
Architecture is political. The architectural styles of the Eastern Block had their reason of being. The usage of prefab and panels in construction was an ideological idea, because the intention was to house as many people in cities as possible during the extremely rapid industrialization that took place.
I meant medical physicians, not particularly researchers. My point is we could apply the healthcare model, i.e. a body of highly trained professionals working on exchange for a wage without the need for constant evaluation of metrics, relying on social value of medicine instead of grants as motivation.
I'm not in the US, but I'm already militant in such organizations in my home country.
Your brain jerks to "look at these evil Muslims" when something obviously western happens in the west. Militarized police terrorizing minorities is literally as USA/European as it gets.
My thought process is that measuring repression using "le evil regime from another culture" is at its core a racist thing to do.
Medicine is already this better way (in countries with social healthcare systems). A body of highly trained specialists who constantly update their knowledge through research, conferences and reading the last scientific advancements, and don't necessarily earn extremely high salaries but have a comfortable life and a stable employment. We could expand this model to all sciences.
Ineffective: "please leave"
Also ineffective: "I call for X"
Effective: "I will be funding and giving media access to local self-defense groups, worker organizing, and mutual aid orgs. The threat comes from the state apparatus and the only way it can be defeated is by grassroots organizing"
After visiting Russia some time ago and comparing old pictures, a lot of the trees were cut simply to make parking spots. Most people didn't own a car in the USSR because public transit and walk ability were prioritized, and so these areas weren't designed with parking in mind. When the Soviet Union was antidemocratically dissolved, public transit was gutted and cars were heavily publicized, so most families who could afford it ended up buying some old car, and they needed parking spots.