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    Dublinograd, URSS – (1982, Ballymun, Dublino)

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    1. Constant-Chipmunk187 on

      Comrade O’Reilly, we see that you’re overdue on the Television Licence Fee, issued by the Supreme Dáil. Off to the Gulag, (Meath), Comrade!

    2. walk_of_shay on

      It’s really sad what happened to Ballymun. It soured an entire generation of people in this country on the idea of high rise housing.

      Who knew that popping up countless towers isolated outside the city centre with zero services or facilities would end up concentrating poverty and crime? I knew families living in the towers. There were inadequate schools, healthcare services, and shopping facilities… it made daily life very difficult. When the unemployment and poverty rates rose, so did social issues like drug abuse, gang violence, and vandalism. A really tough cycle to break. A crucial case study on the complete failure of government policy.

    4. DecmysterwasTaken on

      Fun fact: Vladimir Lenin is said to have spoken English with an Irish accent because the guy who taught him English was Irish

    6. Cravex_1 on

      I uploaded this pic to a forum about 20 years ago. Had to crop it a bit which is why the tower is squashed a small bit.

      This was a pic my dad took a long time ago.
      Think I uploaded about 4 or 5 pics of ballymun in the snow at that time.

    7. TheOriginalMattMan on

      First 5 years of my life was spent there. 1980 – 85.

      Memories…

    8. VanillaCommercial394 on

      A great place , we got notions and moved to Finglas but what a place .

    9. SoftDrinkReddit on

      its actually crazy how Soviet 1982 Ballymun looked like these buildings really do remind me of the Khrushchevka building style in the Soviet Union except not as densely crammed together as they would have been in the soviet union

    10. Ok_Distribution3451 on

      Thank god I’m from Limerick, wouldn’t see that there at all

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