>>7634156Not saying that socialism is good, but a lot of these pictures were taken after thr fall of the USSR and the maintenance of them went from the government to private companies, and since they were never designed to make money, the private companies stopped maintaining them.
Commie blocks were designed to house people as efficiently as possible while also being good enough to show that socialism was working, and I have to admit I'm a little sympathetic to that idea given the current state of real estate in my country, even if I disagree with socialism on the whole.