It's funny, the silly argument ITT can be summed up by the saying "Those who don't miss Communism have no heart, but those who want it back have no mind".
Soviet architecture is so bittersweet because you can see what the USSR thought it was, and what it actually was.
Every building is a monument to utopianism; rationalistic, austere, equalizing, and mercilessly pragmatic. Cross the line between idealism and totalitarianism, deny the human soul, and melancholy is the only way to describe it.
And yes I am well aware that there are bad living conditions elsewhere, don't whataboutism me.
>>8005538There is no maintaining bare concrete, and anyone who uses it does not want their building to be beautiful. Concrete building in the capital of the most prosperous country in the world are just as ugly as if they had been left in Pripyat. Maybe more so, at least Pripyat is being reclaimed by nature.
>>8037732I agree, it's very humane. It's kind of a whitepill, they were in fact designed for people to be comfortable there, even if so many things went wrong in practice.
