Post #1267289

2026-01-24 12:47 UTC

Copying and pasting an old comment i made: Honestly, commieblocks arent that bad. Most of the pictures of them are cherry picked to be the unmaintained, dirty ones, and are exclusively taken in gloomy weather. The houses on the inside are usually good quality as well (though likely not well maintained anymore). Hell, if you just painted them colourfully, they’d look nice.

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@wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-01-24 13:05

Toss some rooftop park/garden/green spaces up there as well and they’d be pretty damn great, as far as skyscrapers go.

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@IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 2026-01-24 16:03

And that is just the façade, some places renew the façade every few decades to keep the place fresh and desirable. the benefits of high density urban design are also amazing and I assume I do not need to list them here. this is lemmy and I just need to wait for the appropriate autist to list them all. And how is it controversial to build housing for everyone, instead of some pretty houses for those who can afford it.

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@Taldan@lemmy.world 2026-01-24 16:30

These blocks look very different as a person on the street. They mostly only look bad from above where you can see all of them together We have some burtalist apartment buildings in Minneapolis. They’re generally desirable apartments

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@SealofLove@leminal.space 2026-01-24 16:45

Nah man. I lived in Russia most of my life and commie blocks are as depressing as they look on those pictures. You have a point that some are poorly maintained, but that’s not some, that’s most of the country. Just a mass of featureless grey blocks. Dirty, ugly and inescapable. About them being good quality on the inside is debatable. The flats are small and I could hear my neighbors all the time. Some of them used to be painted, but the paint is peeling off, only hylighting the ugliness. There’s very little upside to them in the modern world.

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