You better compare the neighborhoods where people are living in rather than comparing a Finnish hotel building to a bunch of apartment blocks in Svetogorsk.
Svetogorsk used to be part of Finland. After the Winter War, the two countries were marking the new border, and Svetogorsk (Enso in Finnish) was to be in the Finnish side of the border. It was a big industrial center, so Russians demanded that the border must be pushed further to the West, so they could take over the city.
As with everything else they took, it turned to shit.
Slaves are happy they are sending their children to die for their masters… they will reelect Putin again to prolong the suffering
The Karelia that is now in Russia, but which used to belong to Finland is a sad sad place to see. Once thriving and beautiful is just a barren piece of s**t nowadays.
I’ve been to Imatra and the apartment buildings looked better than in this Svetogorsk image. Not fancy, but also not in disrepair.
I’m guessing that they would look worse in Russia, but the pictures are not telling much. You’re comparing two different areas in a different weather
The first one is in late spring, summer, or maybe early fall judging by the greenery, the Russian one is some late fall maybe even early winter so everything looks depressing.
Next, building, this Finnish building doesn’t look like a residential building, if it is then its probably unique, the Russian one looks like a typical block those look bad in most places (I’ve seen the ones in London for example)
I’m sure that the level of infrastructural development and cleanliness is way higher in Finland and probably the average place looks better than most places in Russia (Can’t say, but I’ve only been to Moscow in Summer and most places looked quite depressing if they are not within the city center). But the point is to take more representative photos not one with a relatively unique building and the other with a residential block, also weather and period of the year should be the same to make it more comparable
ah, that’s the famous Russkiy Mir.
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now check the photos of hiroshima (city quite literally nuked) and other japanese cities on the russian-occupied islands.
Tbf you didn’t show a normal apartment in Imatra.
This castle-like building should be an average building in Imatra? Come on!
Because you are european gardeners unlike other scum
That castle is really kitschy imo
Russia destroys everything it touches. Karelia is just shit now.
If you think that this is bad it is worth a honorable mention that Svetogorsk is also the home to a smelly paper mill.
Typical hruchevkas. To be fair, people were allowed to live in those for free as soon as they got a job (in USSR). The population in cities was growing so rapidly, so the government had to build a lot of apartments very quickly. That’s why you see the transition from stalinkis, to hruchevkis and brezhbevkis. They helped a lot of people to have their own corner, to move out of communal living to individual apartments with your own bathroom. It was a great deal back then, since in 20s and 30s most people in cities lived in barracks and only had a 1 outhouse for every 20 people?
Pretty useless comparison. With photos of Vyborg we could get the opposite impression.
Climate difference, obviously! /s
rusia = mordor!
Are you kidding me with this comparison?
The Asiatic Bolshevik swine will do that to a place, completely soulless destroyers of culture.
That “castle” is a hotel, built in 1903 in Russian Empire for rich guests from Saint Petersburg.
The building in Svetlogorsk is a house for poor workers.
Both buildings are Russian. lol
Any European city I have ever been in has been a mix of both.
That Finnish building is a hotel, built when Finland was part of Russia!
But yes, the typical residential buildings and infrastructure in general are much better in Finland compared to Russia.
/r/balkans_irl is leaking here.
Poorest Finnish apartment vs Richest Russian apartment.
You probably can get similar pictures within my country. You just have to look. This means mostly nothing.
Now do a reverse cherry-pick.
Blyatiful soviet architecture
Also the Finnish picture was taken in leaf tree season Russain side winter or early spring,so Finnish looks better
As been pointed out, this is a hotel.
I’ve seen a lot of comparisons like this. Europeans showing off the expensive historical palaces where their monarchs lived next to basic, practical soviet apartments.
But these palaces were never built for you? They were built for your masters who collected your tax and left you with scraps. Why are you so proud of them? I’d rather everyone have a roof over their head.
Yet Americans still look up to Putin.
So what? Finland overall is richer and better country than Russia.
Come on man, you could literally take two pictures in the same town where one area ia dilapidated and another is affluent.
That’s a whole lot of cherry picking, not saying average Russian block looks good, but blocks in Imatra are not anything fancy or beautiful either
This post is bullshit. And propaganda.
Tbh I can do this with most cities in Italy just making a photo of a liberty nice posh palace downtown and one public housing building uptown
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You better compare the neighborhoods where people are living in rather than comparing a Finnish hotel building to a bunch of apartment blocks in Svetogorsk.
Svetogorsk used to be part of Finland. After the Winter War, the two countries were marking the new border, and Svetogorsk (Enso in Finnish) was to be in the Finnish side of the border. It was a big industrial center, so Russians demanded that the border must be pushed further to the West, so they could take over the city.
As with everything else they took, it turned to shit.
Slaves are happy they are sending their children to die for their masters… they will reelect Putin again to prolong the suffering
The Karelia that is now in Russia, but which used to belong to Finland is a sad sad place to see. Once thriving and beautiful is just a barren piece of s**t nowadays.
I’ve been to Imatra and the apartment buildings looked better than in this Svetogorsk image. Not fancy, but also not in disrepair.
I’m guessing that they would look worse in Russia, but the pictures are not telling much. You’re comparing two different areas in a different weather
The first one is in late spring, summer, or maybe early fall judging by the greenery, the Russian one is some late fall maybe even early winter so everything looks depressing.
Next, building, this Finnish building doesn’t look like a residential building, if it is then its probably unique, the Russian one looks like a typical block those look bad in most places (I’ve seen the ones in London for example)
I’m sure that the level of infrastructural development and cleanliness is way higher in Finland and probably the average place looks better than most places in Russia (Can’t say, but I’ve only been to Moscow in Summer and most places looked quite depressing if they are not within the city center). But the point is to take more representative photos not one with a relatively unique building and the other with a residential block, also weather and period of the year should be the same to make it more comparable
ah, that’s the famous Russkiy Mir.
​
now check the photos of hiroshima (city quite literally nuked) and other japanese cities on the russian-occupied islands.
Tbf you didn’t show a normal apartment in Imatra.
This castle-like building should be an average building in Imatra? Come on!
Because you are european gardeners unlike other scum
That castle is really kitschy imo
Russia destroys everything it touches. Karelia is just shit now.
If you think that this is bad it is worth a honorable mention that Svetogorsk is also the home to a smelly paper mill.
Typical hruchevkas. To be fair, people were allowed to live in those for free as soon as they got a job (in USSR). The population in cities was growing so rapidly, so the government had to build a lot of apartments very quickly. That’s why you see the transition from stalinkis, to hruchevkis and brezhbevkis. They helped a lot of people to have their own corner, to move out of communal living to individual apartments with your own bathroom. It was a great deal back then, since in 20s and 30s most people in cities lived in barracks and only had a 1 outhouse for every 20 people?
Pretty useless comparison. With photos of Vyborg we could get the opposite impression.
Climate difference, obviously! /s
rusia = mordor!
Are you kidding me with this comparison?
The Asiatic Bolshevik swine will do that to a place, completely soulless destroyers of culture.
That “castle” is a hotel, built in 1903 in Russian Empire for rich guests from Saint Petersburg.
The building in Svetlogorsk is a house for poor workers.
Both buildings are Russian. lol
Any European city I have ever been in has been a mix of both.
That Finnish building is a hotel, built when Finland was part of Russia!
But yes, the typical residential buildings and infrastructure in general are much better in Finland compared to Russia.
/r/balkans_irl is leaking here.
Poorest Finnish apartment vs Richest Russian apartment.
You probably can get similar pictures within my country. You just have to look. This means mostly nothing.
Now do a reverse cherry-pick.
Blyatiful soviet architecture
Also the Finnish picture was taken in leaf tree season Russain side winter or early spring,so Finnish looks better
As been pointed out, this is a hotel.
I’ve seen a lot of comparisons like this. Europeans showing off the expensive historical palaces where their monarchs lived next to basic, practical soviet apartments.
But these palaces were never built for you? They were built for your masters who collected your tax and left you with scraps. Why are you so proud of them? I’d rather everyone have a roof over their head.
Yet Americans still look up to Putin.
So what? Finland overall is richer and better country than Russia.
Come on man, you could literally take two pictures in the same town where one area ia dilapidated and another is affluent.
That’s a whole lot of cherry picking, not saying average Russian block looks good, but blocks in Imatra are not anything fancy or beautiful either
This post is bullshit. And propaganda.
Tbh I can do this with most cities in Italy just making a photo of a liberty nice posh palace downtown and one public housing building uptown