Finnish Answer to The Soviet Architecture. Pasila, Helsinki 🇫🇮
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- čas přidán 2. 01. 2023
- Pasila is one of the neigborhoods in Helsinki. It was build around 70s and 80s, and in this video you can see how it’s been preserved nowadays and how well it compares with soviet neigborhoods from the same era.
If you haven’t seen videos of me exploring soviet areas of Riga, please find them in my youtube for a better comparison and understanding.
#finland #helsinki #soviet
Thank you for appreciating and showing the beauty of Pasila! ❤
The more I see and hear about Finland the more impressed I become . Great school system , tackling the homelessness problem . I had the same idea of having all vehicles restricted to a lower level myself and keeping the city’s living areas only for people. Brilliant . Citizens can stroll around their areas completely safe from traffic . Those planners deserve awards for their “ people first “ thinking .
Exactly! And from 2 years I have lived here, can definitely say that Finland is the country that really prioritize its people and their well-being!
And thank you for the comment 🙂
Thanks for showing around this cool place.
Thank you for watching and glad you liked it 🫡
love the upper level idea, feels futuristic. also nice street art!
Yes, finns really were ahead of time 🙂
Was there in October got off ship from Tallinn to Helsinki got number 7 tram straight to Pasila to photo murals and buildings , yes brutalist even dystopian but not as bad as some commie blocks I’ve seen in some country’s . Glad you didn’t visit the mall of tripla wise man ,great vid as always 😎👍
Haha, I took the same tram today! ✌️
Pasila is definitely not the worst brutalism example around.
But speaking of Tripla, that’s the most boring mall I know. No business for me there 😂
Mind asking, where are you from?
Such a great thing that the traffic is away “underground” and the buildings were built in great quality so it gave a reason to renovate them not to tear them down as planned with soviet blocks 😅
Exactly!! All in all, different level! Wondering if finns have any “deadline” for their building blocks 🤔
I watched the commie flats go up in former East Berlin in 1950 -1961 along with the wall. I was inside surrounded by 2 walls and the only way out then was by plane. Thanks for the nice tour.💪😎
Thank you for watching! :)
Must be a surreal emotions back then and looking at this type of architecture nowadays. How has the Berlin’s building blocks survived up to this day?
@@theruudy I left in 1961 after the wall went up and have not returned.;}
@@frankintx699Roger that!
I literally just discovered your channel like yesterday and I have to say as a Finnish person you’ve taught me new stuff about my country. Subscribed! Looking forward to new content!
Kiitos! 😊
I will do my best! P.S. Do you maybe have some recommendations about interesting and not that well-known places around Helsinki area?
@@theruudy there is a neighborhood called ”meri-rastila” east of helsinki and it’s considered to be perhaps the most multicultural neighborhood in the city. People often forget it even exists.
@@TheOliver8000 Roger that! Will keep in mind when back in Helsinki 🙂
Cold 🥶🥶🥶
And only getting colder 😂🤩
What I like the most about this comparison is the fact that buildings built in a similar time of period look different elsewhere (kind of logic as well). Probably, it can be explained by the ideology of that time, the perception of the world in each country about what is beautiful, what is design, etc. Anyways, it looks like architecture and design in Finland at that time was the future for the USSR, at least 20 years ahead😅
I have chosen this comparison, because Finland technically could also been under the red flag. Gladly it didn’t happen and it could decide its own faith :)
@@theruudy To make an honest comparison you should have a look on some Moscow districts of that days, like Chertanovo or Zelenograd. There are lots of interesting architecture solutions. But what I should note is that the facades of those buildings needs to be renovated and in general the quality of the construction is considerably worse
@@realistromanticI would argue, that it is a quite fair comparison, because Pasila meant to be a “sleeping neigborhood” for working class. At some point considered rough place to live. Of course you can find a better architecture in both, but this time my goal was to compare similar areas :)
Finland was never under communism. Never a part of Soviet union and never an eastern bloc country.
@@diamondsarenotforever8542That’s exactly right, but there was a plan to have them under the soviet wing, which thankfully failed!
I was on a trip in eastern Europe in 2019, and saw some of the brutalist hoods there, painted with bright colors. Not really art, just not-grey. I liked it, and wondered why that couldn't be done in Finland. I suppose because Finland wasn't exactly under Moscow control, so there was much less of a distancing or escape.
Didn't see the hoods in Latvia, because we drove through countryside, which was very nice. Me and my friends planned to drive to Riga in spring 2020, then something went sideways.
Hey! You was probably quite lucky and most probably in Estonia :)
I have made few videos on Riga soviet hoods and also similar neighborhoods in Vilnius, Lithuania. You can find them in my channel and I can guranatee they are very grey 😂👍
@@theruudy The colorizied brutalism I saw was in Poland and Hungary. I know they weren't technically part of the Empire either.
Lithuania was also a drive through countryside, though the massive logistics centers with bright colors were a kind of capitalist version of brutalism.
@@vandalfinnicus1507 I see! Good job poles and hungrarians :) For us latvians and lithuanians still a long way out of soviet greyness 😂👍
Finland is eastern europe but buildings and roads and everything are well maintained. Tbh i dont understand how finland isnt considered as an eastern european country when its more geographically eastern than poland
I would argue that Finland is definitely western Europe. It had bit of eastern vibe, but over geographicaly and economicaly it is definitely western 😉
Finland is northern Europe
Because "Eastern Europe" wasn't a geographic, but rather an ideological and geopolitical term that described a nation's position during the cold war. In the modern day, "Eastern Europe" is still used to refer to countries like Poland, because of their history and relative poorness compared to Westerners. "Eastern Europe" is a pretty dated term in any other context though and Poland for example would be considered "Central European" in any other context, than the cold war period. Calling Finland "Eastern Europe" shows a lack of understanding behind these terms, in addition to a flawed view of European history and Cold War history.
In short; Finland isn't considered Eastern European because it quite simply isn't. And no, having brutalist architechture doesn't make you Eastern European, even countries like France, the UK and US did brutalist architechture.
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Okey :)
Soviet constructivism has no soul. Here is the Stalinist Empire style, it's beautiful.
Indeed it is! Thank you for watching 😊