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by wkat4242 493 days ago
A lot of American urban neighbourhoods are quite impoverished too though. Probably more so than eastern Europe was, for the terrible Soviet architecture was functional, cheap and ugly but not necessarily bad. And eastern Europe didn't have the large divide between rich and poor that the US has.
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We had the divide between the nomenklatura and the rest, instead.