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[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago (6 children)

As someone who lives in a former communist country, I can tell you that “commie blocks” most definitely don't fix homelessness.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (5 children)

As someone who's from a former Communist country, the downfall of communism was met with a dramatic rise in homelessness.

But you probably shouldn't trust a random person on lemmy saying "as someone from Communist country", this info easily verifiable with a web search.

Here's the first link I get searching "homelessness after communism":

https://journal.culanth.org/index.php/ca/article/view/ca29.1.03/277

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Because the commies put all homeless people into jails you dunce!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sarcasm or unironic? Hard to tell these days lol

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

That was unironically the case in Czechoslovakia. Can't speak for the rest of the eastern bloc.

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