Drugs I didn’t see much of in my town, alcoholism definitely… though I know that in other areas there are drugs as well… in terms of crime we mostly got general hooliganism, like throwing firecrackers or graffiti, as well as public drinking, not much theft and the like… domestic violence was definitely something that happened a fair bit
Not much cookouts and parties in the commie blocks themsleves other than occasional family get togethers for the holidays that get out of hand. Generally in my country we were big on going to the countryside, so over the summer up until night the area would be quiet as everyone would go off to the lakeside to grill
In terms of pride, I wouldn’t necessarily say anyone saw anyone any different depending on the housing they were from… knew lots of people from all walks of life, and in general I don’t think there was a major socioeconomic division in that regard :3… the closest to a commie block culture you could define would be marozai as we called them, more commonly known as gopniks elsewhere - generally people who were low class workers skimming by in the soviet union, mostly categorized now as wearing tracksuits, public drinking and eating sunflower seeds, and usually working some under the table job like refurbishing cars bought from auctions and selling them as new, or working in unlicensed construction, though the majority of people living in commie blocks were just standard families you’d find anywhere. In terms of music around holidays when people would stay out late you’d mostly hear rap… a lot of russian music too
And no particular documentaries im awere of that specifically talks about life in one of these areas heh
Drugs I didn’t see much of in my town, alcoholism definitely… though I know that in other areas there are drugs as well… in terms of crime we mostly got general hooliganism, like throwing firecrackers or graffiti, as well as public drinking, not much theft and the like… domestic violence was definitely something that happened a fair bit
Not much cookouts and parties in the commie blocks themsleves other than occasional family get togethers for the holidays that get out of hand. Generally in my country we were big on going to the countryside, so over the summer up until night the area would be quiet as everyone would go off to the lakeside to grill
In terms of pride, I wouldn’t necessarily say anyone saw anyone any different depending on the housing they were from… knew lots of people from all walks of life, and in general I don’t think there was a major socioeconomic division in that regard :3… the closest to a commie block culture you could define would be marozai as we called them, more commonly known as gopniks elsewhere - generally people who were low class workers skimming by in the soviet union, mostly categorized now as wearing tracksuits, public drinking and eating sunflower seeds, and usually working some under the table job like refurbishing cars bought from auctions and selling them as new, or working in unlicensed construction, though the majority of people living in commie blocks were just standard families you’d find anywhere. In terms of music around holidays when people would stay out late you’d mostly hear rap… a lot of russian music too
And no particular documentaries im awere of that specifically talks about life in one of these areas heh