Red Vienna

Mm-hmm.

Uh, obviously the beacon of municipal socialism being, um, Vienna, uh, after around the time of like 1920, um, known as Red Vienna when basically the entire government was elected socialists and they were able to, uh...

They were...

The city itself was given a province ship.

But that's not going to happen tomorrow.

Interesting examples of that is people talked about Red Vienna.

Classic example.

Working class housing that was built.

Because if we don't, We're going to go the way of my favorite time in history, one of my favorites.

It's called Red Vienna, 1930s Vienna, when the intellectual elite and the artistic elite all came together, and then suddenly in came the Nazis and blindsided them.

And by 1936, the whole constitution of Austria was suspended.

Jews were being shipped out.

No, of course, this is a little bit frustrating for many people because we started like 100 years ago or more than 100 years ago.

And the whole thing started in 1919 when in the first democratic elections in Vienna, the Socialist Party won the elections and immediately started with a big societal transformation process, which was called Red Vienna.

And this was not only Red Vienna, it was called.

Yes, this is in the, I mean, this is in the literature.

You can look it up.

Vienna La Rouge, Vienna La Roja, Red Vienna is really, it's a common notion.

And it says at that time in, you must imagine, I mean, shortly after the First World War, a lot of people were coming to Vienna.

In a second, we had like 2 million people living there.