Don't even get what chuds and libs are on about when they say that commie blocks are ugly looking either. They're functional, fuck your aesthetics, give the people homes.
Also, because the khrushchyovka were supposed to be temporary, the USSR didn't do much maintenance on them. Then, post-91, none of the post-soviet states will do maintenance on them because "why bother, commie blocks are ugly anyway". So it's been a self-fulfilling message. They're ugly so don't maintain them, so they become ugly so don't maintain them...
They aren't even that ugly. Spartan maybe, I'd prefer some nice arty touches, but a Soviet housing district looks fine. It's just the west always photographs them at 3pm in February rather than high spring when the trees and flowers are out in the courtyards.
That's been bothering me for a while. Yeah, everything looks grey and shitty in the middle of winter. When you see pictures during the spring and summer where everything is green they look beautiful.
Hmm, I actually don't know if there are racial implications to who lives in commie blocks in ex-soviet states, I think it's usually just old people. If there isn't, then that part at least is a bit different from the US public housing defunding narrative, which is definitely in part racist.
They were not intended as a permanent solution anyway, but as a fast and feasible solution to an exploding city population. Since the soviet economy tanked in the seventies and eighties, the replacements could not be built.
In 70s and 80s USSR mostly built more long-lasting and less ugly buildings, but increasing population still didn't let them to switch to something else. Post-Soviet states solved this by depopulation, so in small towns house construction pretty much ceased altogether.
Don't even get what chuds and libs are on about when they say that commie blocks are ugly looking either. They're functional, fuck your aesthetics, give the people homes.
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You're not wrong, but homeless people can be shoved off out of view and left to rot.
I also don't get how they're any uglier then apartments from any other country.
I've seen multimillion-dollar apartments from uglier bocks here in good old capitalist Australia for example.
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Yup, the tower blocks in the UK are uglier I'd say but built for the same purpose.
Also, because the khrushchyovka were supposed to be temporary, the USSR didn't do much maintenance on them. Then, post-91, none of the post-soviet states will do maintenance on them because "why bother, commie blocks are ugly anyway". So it's been a self-fulfilling message. They're ugly so don't maintain them, so they become ugly so don't maintain them...
They aren't even that ugly. Spartan maybe, I'd prefer some nice arty touches, but a Soviet housing district looks fine. It's just the west always photographs them at 3pm in February rather than high spring when the trees and flowers are out in the courtyards.
That's been bothering me for a while. Yeah, everything looks grey and shitty in the middle of winter. When you see pictures during the spring and summer where everything is green they look beautiful.
That's sad to hear. I'm going to assume the same line of reasoning is used here in the states in regards to public housing too.
Hmm, I actually don't know if there are racial implications to who lives in commie blocks in ex-soviet states, I think it's usually just old people. If there isn't, then that part at least is a bit different from the US public housing defunding narrative, which is definitely in part racist.
Yeah the narrative here in the states surrounding public housing is that it's bad because of racist undertones.
Younger people live there too either because they can't afford anything else or they inherited a flat.
They were not intended as a permanent solution anyway, but as a fast and feasible solution to an exploding city population. Since the soviet economy tanked in the seventies and eighties, the replacements could not be built.
I didn't know that. I still think they look fine as is honestly, very comfy and cozy in a way. Plus concrete is good soundproofing too.
They were being built though in the end of 70-80s, just couldn’t get all of them done :(
In 70s and 80s USSR mostly built more long-lasting and less ugly buildings, but increasing population still didn't let them to switch to something else. Post-Soviet states solved this by depopulation, so in small towns house construction pretty much ceased altogether.