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Shadows of Red Vienna

26 August 2026, 23:13 Uroš Mitrović

FOR WORKERS: The Karl-Marx-Hof residential complex from the era of "Red Vienna"

In the twenties of the last century, Vienna lived in the hotbed of a system that was bankrupt both morally and economically. A century later, we are once again plagued by the same cracks in today's morally failing system

When the old liberal capitalism and the Austro-Hungarian monarchy collapsed after the First World War and the Spanish flu pandemic, Vienna was not just a capital that was left without an empire – it was a city that lost ground. Imperial splendor turned overnight into anguish, mass unemployment, famine, tuberculosis and housing […]

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