You say that USSR was “caring” about anyone’s comfort, I say you don’t know what you are talking about
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Fisch@discuss.tchncs.de 2 days ago
It makes sense why it is like that, at least in countries that were part of the Soviet Union. They wanted to build housing for everyone that still gave them a good quality of life. In order to do that quickly, they focused on making them nice on the inside while not really caring for what they looked like on the outside. They used new techniques (I don’t remember if they invented them or if that was already a thing) to mass produce parts for the houses beforehand, so they only needed to assemble them and didn’t need to put a lot of work into designing each building.
toofpic@lemmy.world 2 days ago
PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 2 days ago
No idea where your downvote came from. The Kommunalka were horrible, it’s pure revisionist to say otherwise. They were originally constructed to house rural peasants who had been drafted from the countryside to work in urban industry. Multiple families per apartment, etc. etc., with no other choice because that’s you were given.
SethTaylor@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I lived the first 7 years of my life in Romania in a communist-built apartment building that was under the administration of the power plant my parents worked at. My memories of it are straight out of a post-apocalyptic movie. A dozen apartment buildings at the edge of a village, beyond them nothing but a large field, and far in the background the power plant, spewing out black smoke. This was in 1994 though, so I reckon I didn’t get to see the worst of it. We actually had a one-bedroom apartment to ourselves, the four of us.
PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 2 days ago
They wanted to build housing for everyone that still gave them a good quality of life.
Uhhh I would suggest actually reading about the Kommunalka and survivors accounts. Multiple families per apartment, sometimes multiple families per room if it was that one family worked day shifts and the other at night, it was not at all uncommon for people to be designated a stairwell or closet to live in during the depression(s).
four@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
I think it’s rather that those buildings were built 50 years ago and they are still standing today as they were back then (some got thermal insulation and some color) but the inside could have been renovated last year, so it’s new
Sunshine@piefed.ca 2 days ago
Cuba has buildings that look like these.
PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Pretty much everywhere does. Turns out “unadorned gian box of apartments” is about the most efficient way to build housing.
I know it’s been demolished because of mismanagement, but here’s the Pruitt-Igoe complex in the USA.
SethTaylor@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Actually, what the image shows is that the buildings have not been renovated on the outside but the owners have renovated their own apartments on the inside.
Eheran@lemmy.world 2 days ago
The people made it nice inside, not the USSR.