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The Soviet Dream, Eastern Brutalism and more!

Anonymous Sat 05 Aug 2023 16:13:17 No.8003253 View View Reply Original Report

I love the feelings of melancholy, sadness, homesickness, tiredness invoked by images of soviet/brutalist architecture.
In this thread i will post some High Res Pics of that!
Feel free to post some aswell, everyone is welcome.

(I will also be posting some music)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNk99-9sBYQ&list=PLkpi4OlrotP10wzwUzHVjBtYNZv9sHO1G&index=38&ab_channel=%D0%93%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%A4%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BC%3F-Topic

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Anonymous Tue 09 Jan 2024 03:03:21 No.8037698 Report

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Anonymous Tue 09 Jan 2024 03:05:09 No.8037699 Report

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Anonymous Tue 09 Jan 2024 03:06:40 No.8037700 Report

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Anonymous Tue 09 Jan 2024 07:58:38 No.8037726 Report

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>>8036720
>there exists no le natural human appreciation of classical aesthetics
Just blatantly untrue.

Rest of the post is Tankie talking about how everything is better under Communism because Capitalism is le evil and ruins everything. There are tons of people online complaining about how the walls are paper thin and they are falling apart etc.... The only time I see people waxing lyrical about them is either they were young and tie them to their personal narrative of life or Bolshevik simps that romantise the whole era (or backpedal saying 'oh but our shit blockhouses were good, ignore the work to death camps).

Reiterates the same retard point about Communist shit beating out stuff that was built centuries ago in terms of modern amenities.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Jan 2024 09:21:05 No.8037728 Report

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>>8003268
Photographer here, don't use PNGs for your photo files, use JPEG for those

PNG is for graphical arts with distinct colours, it's what it's best at handling, for photos, which have gradients in colours and luminance, JPEG will get you better quality per Mb

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Jan 2024 12:07:31 No.8037732 Report

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>>8006933
>I remember being a kind on the playground, having fun. there were lots of trees, and the buildings gave shade from the sun. It was so peacefull and quiet.

There isn't much I love about Soviet Style housing blocks, but the dedication to having a lot of green space in their layouts always seemed like a positive to me.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sun 14 Jan 2024 17:52:34 No.8038762 Report

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Anonymous Mon 15 Jan 2024 04:45:57 No.8038893 Report

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>>8029332
he right I do care

>From the standpoint of Brazil,
European Brutalism was an expression of melancholy, the work of a
civilization that had all but destroyed itself in the Second World War,
and whose use of technology was always now tainted by knowledge
of its own capacity for self-destructiveness’

youre merely depressed and in your edgy phase but you'll have your paradigm shift eventually

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 15 Jan 2024 12:38:22 No.8038964 Report

Quoted By: >>8039064 >>8042858

shot this in armenia recently

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 15 Jan 2024 23:57:10 No.8039037 Report

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Anonymous Tue 16 Jan 2024 02:39:03 No.8039064 Report

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>>8038964
hope to visit someday

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 16 Jan 2024 10:16:47 No.8039121 Report

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>>8039064
it's a very cultural and traditional country still, a lot of history around, it hasn't removed the soviet side at all; and there's no mass immigration (yet) so it's very much still armenian

though i'm seeing a lot of indians around, which is a shame; more russians also as they flee conscription

it's a very small country with not a lot to do, but it's a much slower pace of life that makes it very comfortable; i've been here for a few months now

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 18 Jan 2024 22:37:29 No.8039767 Report

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>>8003258
This is in the Druzhba district of Sofia. One day I'll get a phone with a better camera and I'll make a bunch of comfy commieblock wallpapers

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 22 Jan 2024 11:35:25 No.8040443 Report

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Anonymous Sat 27 Jan 2024 11:18:35 No.8041380 Report

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>>8003257
great background didn't expect music or this song but I like it

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 27 Jan 2024 11:24:58 No.8041381 Report

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>>8010637
The longer I look at it the more I take it personally

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sun 28 Jan 2024 20:53:39 No.8041619 Report

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Anonymous Sat 03 Feb 2024 08:20:50 No.8042572 Report

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Anonymous Sun 04 Feb 2024 14:47:16 No.8042692 Report

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Anonymous Sun 04 Feb 2024 20:20:14 No.8042743 Report

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>>8012785
>in favor of looking after the wants of the 1% and the military

they literally didn't look after the needs of the 1%. stalin lived in mid living conditions, same with mao. also the 1%? the bourgeoisie? that had been eliminated in the soviet union and even china until their market economic reforms in the late 70s thru the 80s

as for the military comment, no shit. it was the cold war, retard. stalin had the excuse that the state was extremely weak following the russian civil war. every other communist dictatorship had to deal with not only internal dissent, but being attacked by outside forces and third pillars.

i know the whole thing here on 4chan is anticommunism bc muh freedoms, but if you're going to critique communism you should at least have some basic understanding of how the system worked and what conditions gave rise to its authoritarianism.

but ofc you won't do that bc you're a bug man and any sort of understanding outside of face value is literally too complex for your under-educated insectoid brain to comprehend. L and kill yourself.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 05 Feb 2024 16:23:06 No.8042858 Report

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>>8003253
Since OP is posting Eastern European music I'll share one I like
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5lE8OU-5aQ
>>8038964
I keep misreading this as "America"

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 07 Feb 2024 11:08:35 No.8043072 Report

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Anonymous Wed 07 Feb 2024 12:30:47 No.8043091 Report

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>>8037726
dumbass nazi retard

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sun 11 Feb 2024 02:14:36 No.8043764 Report

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Anonymous Sun 11 Feb 2024 02:15:18 No.8043765 Report

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Anonymous Sun 11 Feb 2024 06:00:11 No.8043808 Report

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>>8043091
>Don't like shit Communist buildings
>Must be a supporter of Hitler
Do you have to actively concentrate to breathe?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 11 Feb 2024 07:42:18 No.8043828 Report

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>>8037726
You cannot blame a structure for getting decrepit without any maintenance. The problem isn't the buildings, it's the complete crash of the Eastern European economies after the collapse of the USSR and the intentional dismantling of state housing.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Fri 16 Feb 2024 15:50:23 No.8044924 Report

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Anonymous Sun 18 Feb 2024 10:01:22 No.8045304 Report

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>>8043828
>it's the complete crash of the Eastern European economies after the collapse of the USSR

As if those economies were in any better of a condition BEFORE the collapse during the decades of Soviet occupation...

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Anonymous Wed 21 Feb 2024 19:25:52 No.8045875 Report

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Anonymous Wed 21 Feb 2024 20:26:52 No.8045882 Report

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>>8032873
I agree and like seeing these images for that same reason. It's a kind of comfiness you can only find in such bleakness as an outsider to it.

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Anonymous Mon 26 Feb 2024 23:17:24 No.8046731 Report

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Anonymous Tue 19 Mar 2024 03:09:44 No.8050217 Report

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Anonymous Sat 23 Mar 2024 17:42:16 No.8050926 Report

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>>8032873
They turned to alcoholism over a feeling of inertia and failure, that their life was over before it began and there weren't any opportunities. This is like a woman romanticising depression and suicide as romantic. There was like child prostitution going on two blocks over while you are killing your liver to never have to wake up and be sober.

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Anonymous Mon 01 Apr 2024 03:33:17 No.8052248 Report

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Anonymous Mon 08 Apr 2024 17:09:50 No.8053469 Report

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>>8003256
i live in one of those. Still living with my parents so it's not that comfy, but I do not understand why it is so comfy to me to look at these and to look out the window and see other people living in them as well, seeing a lot of lights in the windows. At the same time it makes me feel pathetic because I go in with the "masses". Like I am a sheep, a headless chicken in this whole rat race system driven by control of the people and at the same time can you be mad at them ? They outsmart us. They see what works and use that to gain an advantage.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 08 Apr 2024 17:29:24 No.8053472 Report

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>>8026191
I want to agree with you. For my entire life I wanted to hate them, but I have lived outside the Eastern Block for many years and I gotta tell you, at an affordable price, I still have not found a place which would satisfy all the boxes that I ticked previously in those flats. Now there is a flaw in all the apartment complexes wherever you go, and that is the noise. You can become extreamly self-concious about the sounds and noises you make even when it comes to sex. Now the one I live in has thick walls but as a musician as well I find if problematic and this created clinical levels of anxiety.

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Anonymous Mon 15 Apr 2024 13:23:53 No.8054516 Report

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Anonymous Wed 17 Apr 2024 12:16:04 No.8054842 Report

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Warszawa by Bowie always hits hard for me when I browse these Soviet threads

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Gy94N_mcWs

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Anonymous Thu 25 Apr 2024 11:11:06 No.8055852 Report

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Anonymous Thu 25 Apr 2024 15:42:03 No.8055882 Report

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>>8052248
not communist brutalism
its actually a type of stripped classicism like in nazi germany (im not joking)
most of the buildings built by the state since Ceausescu took office carry this vague neoclassic vibe

>pic related

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 25 Apr 2024 17:53:29 No.8055897 Report

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>>8055882
this is the only piece of communist architecture in my country that I can be proud of
personally, I despise brutalism. not for its practicality but distinct lack thereof (despite all signs showing it should work)

my father is an architect and apparently he loves this dogshit style
i'm also aiming to become an architect and if it were up to me, many of these ugly pieces of grey concrete would be remade with some proper decorum

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 25 Apr 2024 17:58:49 No.8055901 Report

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>>8029332
>We
We? Who the fuck is we? You're either a Securitate, actual mouth-breathing retard or a goddamn puppet if you think anyone this side of Europe wants genuine communism back.
I won't listen to any more of your drivel lest I suffer permanent fucking brain damage.

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Anonymous Thu 25 Apr 2024 18:35:15 No.8055921 Report

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>>8055897
honestly the only thing you need to do is paint them the same color and add some details to the outside window skirts
>pic related (not a nazi) looks so much better than just concrete or just glass.

it's a shame how some parts of bucharest look although on summer nights especially in places with lots of abandoned interwar buildings there is this smell in the air and a weird atmosphere makes me think of the southern us

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Anonymous Thu 25 Apr 2024 19:40:56 No.8055948 Report

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>>8055921
>>pic related
If the Nazis knew one thing, it was how not to look like dogshit. It doesn't take much to not make brutalism look like shit (hell I've seen art deco here in Bucharest that you need to LOOK for to distinguish from brutalism), but that's exactly the issue: it's so simple to fuck up.
And it is fucked up. Repeatedly.

Germany's massive projects in the thirties and forties were worth something because they were done not just with practicality in mind - they were done with the goal to inspire. If a government can make a concrete block look appealing, then is it any wonder how they can swing an entire nation into a frenzy?
I'm off track. My biases are showing.
Point is: brutalism does not have to be ugly. But the communists have ruined yet another thing by defining the goddamn style to be ugly, bleak, bland and ultimately not even practical due to its flimsiness. Making concrete of all things look weak is a feat in and of itself.

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Anonymous Sun 28 Apr 2024 16:29:05 No.8056327 Report

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>>8012785
You literally just described what the United States has routinely done to us with a capitalist economy. Go outside.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 28 Apr 2024 16:38:24 No.8056328 Report

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>>8055948
Lol you dumb fuck, the nazis made the most bland, unnecessarily opulent (yet horribly designed) buildings that serve no utility other than just being big fucking eyesores.

Oh cool pillars with basically no design or purpose! They definitely don't look like they were designed by unartistic morons with blank checks trying to remember what Roman architecture looked like /s

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Anonymous Sun 28 Apr 2024 18:38:21 No.8056333 Report

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>>8056328
And yet their aesthetic is still remembered for being imposing and a show of power even 80 years later in spite of the Soviets being the world power that came out on top and dominated half the world with its ideological strong-arming all the while.

Curious.

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