humble peat digger

I think life was just harder back then for everyone.

he Soviet government entertained the idea of resettling all Jews in the USSR in a designated territory where they would be able to pursue a lifestyle that was “socialist in content and national in form”.

^ it was an idea for their benefit. sure - it didnt work, but the intentions here were positive.

In the spring of 1928, 654 Jews arrived to settle in the area; however, by October 1928, 49.7% of them had left because of the severe conditions.

They left Karl - means it wasn’t concentration camps gun to their heads.

After the war ended in 1945, there was renewed interest in the idea of Birobidzhan as a potential home for Jewish refugees. The Jewish population in the region peaked at around 46,000–50,000 Jews in 1948, around 25% of the entire population of the JAO.[15]

Again - Karl - do you remember the climate for jews back in the days ? noone would give them land. US turned jew ship back: https://www.history.com/news/wwii-jewish-refugee-ship-st-louis-1939 and they were all killed.

USSR should get nothing but a praise for giving them land and accepting jewish refugees.

Maybe it didnt work out in the end - but the intentions here were good and pure.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Autonomous_Oblast

making it into some anti-communist spiel doesnt hold water.

Yes. To be with their people. Good idea, didn’t work . Not worried about jao sorry

I’ve read it - they look like anecdotal accounts and don’t look too credible. Would there be any systematic Jewish decoration policy - I assure u this would have come out in the 90s when archives were opened and Western media would have had a field day with this.

And no - jao was formed before WW2 - and from what I’m reading - people were not forced to move there, there was a propaganda campaign promoting it.

tbh i’m 100% confident if this even happened - it was on small scale and not an official ussr policy.

as in - if some polaks got arrested after 1939 - those were based on class and stance towards ussr. some of those surely were jewish. boohoo.

there is not a single official document u can find where jews would have been specifically ordered to be deported.

Like putting Jews and Red Army POWs let out of Nazi camps in gulags. Very positive.

that’s not a real thing.
you wouldn’t be able to find an example of systematic jews transfers to gulags - search if u wanna.
kidding me - many people in ussr leadership were jews

the minority

not sure what u talking about.
there hasn’t been mass ethnic deportations after about ww2 - which I think we can all agree was a very special unique case.
besides - supposed democracy of the time were putting peaceful japanese into concentration camps and segregating negros - so how are they better.

I don’t really care.
I think ussr had a lot of unique positive things.

How was decided? By number of children. 1 kid - 2br apartment, 2 kids - 3 bedroom apartment.
There was also wait list. No - I wouldn’t say housing was different based on income - actually 100% sure it wasnt.

I find that USSR housing much better than 2x4 framed house I live in now in US. Cmon- cant beat 3m ceilings - in US its reservd for the rich.

One thing they really fucked up planning is parking - noone knew everyone would drive a car in 30 years

It’s unrelated to Ussr.
Many countries criminalized it and still do including US until very very recent times.

Nothing to do with communism vs capitalism.

I always had toilet paper growing up in ussr.
Not sure where u got that from.

But what it did have - you could walk everywhere - any lake, any shore any seafront is public. Medical system for everyone. Housing for everyone.

Yes - light industry had issues.

So why are u guys so against communism?

This problem was solved in ussr.

What phones u guys been using for the last 15 years? I haven’t seen slide out keyboards for about that long

I like the generic rectangle block of glass.
Don’t understand why they insist on a physical keyboard.

Not angry, that was a figure of speech . Which remote and Os do u use for RPI?

Have like 4 of rpi4b laying around maybe I’ll try Kodi again

Mmm sandy.

Ok. Congratufuckinglations - you are the o.ooo1 percenter that figured it out and probably uses Kodi on Raspbian?.

But ofc I do. So my question is - which device are u connecting?

Unless it’s open source and called Kodi or you are connecting some Linux device - they all gonna be spying on u - that’s my point.

From what device?
They all spy on u.

Unless u are using Linux, but majority of people just use whatever is installed on tv

“They caught on”.

I mean - u don’t use any apps? Netflix, plex, Hulu, Disney, apple tv?