PHOTO OF THE DAY: The whole point of "Redland" in one shot

This real photo, taken on one of the streets of Kiev, according to the famous network fighter against Soviet myths Maksim Mirovich, characterizes the concept of "Redland" in the best possible way. Indeed, this kind of neighborhood, symbolizing the cultural, social and economic degradation of the country after the October 1917 coup, can be seen in any city of the former USSR.

And the point is not even that pre-revolutionary houses were built according to individual projects, with various kinds of decor, emphasizing the well-being of their residents ... This is not entirely true, and the history of 20th century architecture testifies to a significant simplification of the task of the architect around the world. The social housing blocks in New York, Vienna, and Yekaterinburg are more or less the same. The point is different: in a terrible contrast that no city in the world will allow itself, with the exception of Soviet cities. And as if nothing had happened, wonderful monuments and wretched, poor, dirty dwellings stand side by side, and this does not bother anyone around. This constant visual background brings up in each new generation, both in the Soviet and in the post-Soviet, bad taste, which then catastrophically affects all spheres of public life.

As Mirovich correctly notes: “The houses began to resemble not a beautiful antique temple, but a trash can, dented and darkened by time and dirt. A similar space forms the corresponding mentality - the inhabitants "who are in the forest, who are for firewood" glazed dark loggias and filled them with old rubbish - like broken skis, an old painted chest of drawers and empty cans with earth at the bottom. The picture perfectly explains what the "Redland" is and what it did to people..."