WOW its almost like buildings when not maintained properly due to state collapse start looking bad.
You know, having not been well maintained post illegal dissolution of the USSR, it still actually looks alright. Not amazing but probably still would best being homeless by a long shot.
Not to mention specfically being shot in less than favorable conditions. Probably looks a lot nicer with better framing on a sunny day. It's like whenever the BBC films in China and has to put their Oppression Filter over all the footage to make it look worse.
I think they look fine, and it sure as heck beats having to live on the street.
They look okay. Google and the rest of em just skew the results a lot
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You should see the surprise in the eyes of post-soviet generations when they see renovated (or simply maintained) apartment blocks in, for example, Norway and learn they "could look good"
If anyone wants to talk about the paint, there's an irl Simpsons house that was for ed to repaint into normal colors because of the HOA
But remember: it's the ebil commies that resent any notion of individuality and brutally suppress anything that sticks out!
Just imagine being dragged kicking and screaming from your carboard boxes behind a dumpster by the local cadre and through the front door of one of these monstrosities. Staring despondently into the distance as the cadre official explains that they've drawn a warm bath for you, that there are fresh towels in the airing cupboard and she'll leave the keys on the kitchen counter.
Imagine how worried you'd be if they did that to a family member.
imagine spending only 3% of your income on rent instead of 50% 😭 truly a dystopia
Depressing Western European architecture is people living on the streets at every turn
Depressing Eastern (asiatic, barely european) architecture
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vs glorious western (proper white european) architecture! (This one was also taken on a nice day!)
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I'm very cool and smart updoot me for deliberately trashing a poor income neighbourhood in a foreign country!
oh no, tree-filled parks between the houses! you could've put so much parking space there if not for the authoritarianism!
Fr, my municipality is 70% forest and trees in parks, no parking space 😭
Yeah, as if the boring cookie-cutter American suburbs are sooooo much better 🙄
