The good old commie blocks Ugliness
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Some prime examples of communist architecture in Chisinau Moldova
The architecture of my city finally gets mentioned - an honor
don't show this to the owner of The Aesthetic City channel on YT
Pics 4, 5, and 6 are exactly how I imagine hell: green, spacious, traditional architectural styles, social housing, etc..
“What colors are available for my apartment building?”
“Oh we’ve got both colors… white AND gray!”
Me when the Baizuo from Portland tells the Russian immigrant who lived in the Soviet Union that commie blocks were good actually.
Well, I live in a Commieblock (although built with slight better materials than the average kruschevka), it is not that bad
I have a bunch of family who live in what we’d call commieblocks in Hunan, they’re okay places. The interior is pretty much just as nice as most apartments in Portland.
I'm also an immigrant from Soviet Union, and...Commie blocks were pretty decent!
At least as far as initial build quality. Long term maintenance was neglected, but that would make any building kinda crappy.
I love this comment so so so much
It is mindblowing to me that people prefer concrete cages over sububran houses.
Yeah someone should have told them that
Are you sure it’s a preference….or?
affordable urban high-density walkable housing is SO much worse than endless rows of copy-pasted space-inefficient absurdly overpriced houses amirite
This means you do not value human comfort and privacy.
Fuck do you think housing provides, then?
You westoids are so ignorant.
Although I don't like USSR I have to admit that buildings from the pics are actually decent (especially Stalinist Eclectic style) and many of them look good even today, giving the city a Modernist flavor.
It's satisfying to see Central Boulevard without tacky adverts (Pic 4), the former Intourist hotel (not yet abandoned).
The approach to urbanism in the Soviet times was far from perfect, and the streets might have looked kind of ghostly with so much empty space, but in my city, the situation in this respect only worsened since 1991.