I think your view of Soviet Bloc countries is slightly rose-tinted, for example asserting there are no unsafe areas due to no ghettos. We'll probably have to agree to disagree on that one.
I'm speaking as someone who has spent a lot of time in certain former Soviet Bloc countries. I have residence in one of them.
When I've been in US cities I have been advised which neighbourhoods are safe and which 'hoods aren't. Never had or needed such warnings in cities in eastern/central Europe. Maybe there are unsafe areas there, but I've never come across them.
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