I wonder how would Eastern Austria would look like if the Soviets decided to keep it like DDR.
What kind of farming would be the better ?
You can see a similar picture between Poland (no collectivization) and Belarus (collectivization)
Less roads, more efficient and technically more land is in use.
Communism 1
Capitalism 0
The Czech Republic fields look like UK fields? So presumably it’s not just a communist thing? Austrian fields look weirdly small and stripey.
The whole system was such a catastrophe.
I was reading a study once about Russia that when the Union fell it allowed a ton of marginally-productive farm land to go back to being unused, which helped restore the environment. However, that obviously meant a lot of economic displacement since without subsidies that land was not productive enough. Funny enough, we have a similar dynamic here with overfarming and overgrazing thanks to subsidies, especially artificially low water costs.
Don’t look to Belarus, it’s all covered by these big collective fields
In my country(Romania) even though we also had colectivization, a significant amount of land looks like the one from Austria. That’s because after the communist regime fell, the land was returned to the people.
After that, in the poorer regions people started doing subsistence farming, to help feed themselves and their animals. In the richer regions people kept the communist model, forming Associations, where rich people would work the land with mechanized equipment and most often they would take 70-80% of the harvests.
Eventually, over time those same rich people ended up buying the lands from people, as the economy grew and people no longer needed whatever the lands where producing.
So today you have the Austrian model in the East and North-East, and the Czech model in the South-east, South, and South-West.
Guess who is still earning money on farming and is not overrun by costs for production of food to sell on the world marked..
Same in Germany.
In West Germany tons of smaller farms.
In East Germany some fields are bigger than the whole farming land of small farmers.
That’s interesting. The Canadian Prairies where I live look a lot more like the Czech Republic.from the air.
Well central spain is like in the top and in my region is like in the botton.
Are you sure about your initial statement?
I see communismisation in 2022
Can someone explain
You can see that very well even from a small plane. Czechia actually looks way better than Austria from above, in my opinion.
I’ve driven in the countryside in Czech damn it is so beautiful these big farm fields and towns.
This thing is no joke, the difference in the distribution of cropping fields during the progress of the Reconquista has deep consequences nowadays in administrative, social, economical, etc. matters, not just in landscape, even if the Reconquista started in the 8th century and ended more than 5 centuries ago.
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I wonder how would Eastern Austria would look like if the Soviets decided to keep it like DDR.
What kind of farming would be the better ?
You can see a similar picture between Poland (no collectivization) and Belarus (collectivization)
Less roads, more efficient and technically more land is in use.
Communism 1
Capitalism 0
The Czech Republic fields look like UK fields? So presumably it’s not just a communist thing? Austrian fields look weirdly small and stripey.
The whole system was such a catastrophe.
I was reading a study once about Russia that when the Union fell it allowed a ton of marginally-productive farm land to go back to being unused, which helped restore the environment. However, that obviously meant a lot of economic displacement since without subsidies that land was not productive enough. Funny enough, we have a similar dynamic here with overfarming and overgrazing thanks to subsidies, especially artificially low water costs.
Don’t look to Belarus, it’s all covered by these big collective fields
In my country(Romania) even though we also had colectivization, a significant amount of land looks like the one from Austria. That’s because after the communist regime fell, the land was returned to the people.
After that, in the poorer regions people started doing subsistence farming, to help feed themselves and their animals. In the richer regions people kept the communist model, forming Associations, where rich people would work the land with mechanized equipment and most often they would take 70-80% of the harvests.
Eventually, over time those same rich people ended up buying the lands from people, as the economy grew and people no longer needed whatever the lands where producing.
So today you have the Austrian model in the East and North-East, and the Czech model in the South-east, South, and South-West.
Guess who is still earning money on farming and is not overrun by costs for production of food to sell on the world marked..
Same in Germany.
In West Germany tons of smaller farms.
In East Germany some fields are bigger than the whole farming land of small farmers.
That’s interesting. The Canadian Prairies where I live look a lot more like the Czech Republic.from the air.
Well central spain is like in the top and in my region is like in the botton.
Are you sure about your initial statement?
I see communismisation in 2022
Can someone explain
You can see that very well even from a small plane. Czechia actually looks way better than Austria from above, in my opinion.
I’ve driven in the countryside in Czech damn it is so beautiful these big farm fields and towns.
This thing is no joke, the difference in the distribution of cropping fields during the progress of the Reconquista has deep consequences nowadays in administrative, social, economical, etc. matters, not just in landscape, even if the Reconquista started in the 8th century and ended more than 5 centuries ago.