Even in the now fasco-communist US soyuz you can see public housing areas that are similar.  Everything is grey, square, uncreative and devoid of any sort of color or life and the people there live mostly in misery.

The market, on the other hand, when left to its own devices, looks a lot like Hong Kong whereas the government (the opposite of the free market) looks like prisons, wars and poverty.

This is seen over and over again in real life.  Take Singapore and Cuba, as example.  In the 1950s Cuba was a rolicking, free wheeling place that people from around the world came to for amazing restaurants, culture and nightlife... and famous for world class cigars and coffee.  Singapore, on the other hand, was a poor, sleepy backwater devoid of natural resources.

In 1959, Lee Kuan Yew assumed power in Singapore with a very free market bent.  In the same year, Fidel Castro took power in Cuba with a violently anti-capitalist regime.