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Actually maintained soviet apartment blocs aren't nearly as depressing as the ones taken in winter, that haven't been maintained properly since the dissolution of socialism:
These apartments provided housing for people that lived largely in shacks, where smoke from heating caused early deaths:
Soviet city planning made things walkable, with schools, playgrounds, and greenery within walking distance from nearly every apartment.
To be clear, I think the homes being made fun of in the original picture were supposed to be Western homes. They certainly look like many subdivisions in the US.
I haven't actually seen propaganda about Soviet housing. The pictures you posted just look like the poorer areas of any western city. We stayed in La Mina (on accident) when we visited Barcelona. Your pictures look better than La Mina!
I've seen you post the last one before, what's the source for it?
I believe I originally found it while looking for similar images. A good bit of info on housing I know came from Hakim's video on soviet housing. I'd love to have a primary source document to reference, such as a newspaper or book, but for images I usually grab them from internet searches.
It seems it might be "The People's dining room in the Nizhny Novgorod region" by Mikhail Dmitriev
Interesting! I'll have to check that out later, thanks comrade!
It's hard to find anything about it on the english internet, there's a bit more on the russian it seems, but it's harder to navigate it when you don't speak the language.
Yea that's entirely fair. One day for me, maybe, haha.