• PolandIsAStateOfMind
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    2 years ago

    Mostly like that to be honest, more or less average street in every town and city:

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      2 years ago

      And people blame that ^ on communism and/or Russia

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          2 years ago

          I’ll take your word on that, never been that deep into the Core

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            2 years ago

            That particular pic is from Łódź (ŁKS grafitti for the local football team), city that fell under deindustrailization hard and as consequence it do looks a bit dilapidated, but most smaller cities and big parts of bigger ones looks exactly like this.

            Btw that’s pre-socialist building, from style i would guess it’s classic “kamienica” from around 1900 plus minus 30 years.

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          It looks similar. Let’s be honest. Everyone condemns thr shape of the square.

          It’s basically equating utiliarian square brutalism with oppression.

          Taking nothing into account that such architecture is based on post war French and English architecture.

          And for the soviets? If it works; they would use it.

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          I recently walked past the former headquarters of the European Central Bank. Just 200m away the streets look worse than that.

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      2 years ago

      Belgium looks like both this and the pic in the post.

      Hell, turning a block in Antwerp can mean the difference between this and futurism. And it’s a good city to live in, despite looking grungy in some parts.

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        Sure, in bigger cities there are very moden looking places even in Poland. As there are absolute slums, if not for the climate and mass socialist building we would drown in favelas already. Such posts like in OP imply averageness though.