I suppose if the previous standard for a tsarist era peasant was a wooden shack in the middle of nowhere, a brutalist block might be seen as a step up. In which case the commie does have a pedantic point. But the overall standards for a regular guy in a communist country was still well below what a minimum wage worker in the west had access to.
I suppose if the previous standard for a tsarist era peasant was a wooden shack in the middle of nowhere, a brutalist block might be seen as a step up. In which case the commie does have a pedantic point. But the overall standards for a regular guy in a communist country was still well below what a minimum wage worker in the west had access to.