The fun thing is, when pressed for examples they always send pictures taken in the dead of winter so that everything looks depressing and you can’t see the green space. Or pictures of communist housing blocks that are falling apart after 30 years of neglect in a capitalist country. But then when you send back a picture of Catholic Hell in the form of thousands of identical wasteful houses, connected to a grocery store 20 miles away by a 6 lane highway, and thousands of cars, that’s unfair and cherry-picking.
And of course regular everyday pictures from the 70’s Soviet Union, Poland, Romania, GDR, are simply propaganda and made to look good to deceive the West.
Old Soviet apartments were marvels of engineering. Easy to build, cheap and easy to maintain, and really cleverly planned and engineered. For example central air based heating would be prohibitively expensive, so instead the apartments were heated with hot water based system. Which had the double effect of recycling heated water from local power plants, while also giving 24/7 heating that costs pennies a month. (Plus with the way the piping system was efficiently designed, most apartments had the added benefit of heated floors).
In all, the heating system was rated to last 30-45 years at peak efficiency, while modern HVAC systems can barely crack 8-15 without extensive repairs or replacement.
The fun thing is, when pressed for examples they always send pictures taken in the dead of winter so that everything looks depressing and you can’t see the green space. Or pictures of communist housing blocks that are falling apart after 30 years of neglect in a capitalist country. But then when you send back a picture of Catholic Hell in the form of thousands of identical wasteful houses, connected to a grocery store 20 miles away by a 6 lane highway, and thousands of cars, that’s unfair and cherry-picking.
And of course regular everyday pictures from the 70’s Soviet Union, Poland, Romania, GDR, are simply propaganda and made to look good to deceive the West.
Hell the 50 year old commieblocks or even “temporary” 70 year old khruschovka in Poland are looking nice when properly maintained.
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Old Soviet apartments were marvels of engineering. Easy to build, cheap and easy to maintain, and really cleverly planned and engineered. For example central air based heating would be prohibitively expensive, so instead the apartments were heated with hot water based system. Which had the double effect of recycling heated water from local power plants, while also giving 24/7 heating that costs pennies a month. (Plus with the way the piping system was efficiently designed, most apartments had the added benefit of heated floors).
In all, the heating system was rated to last 30-45 years at peak efficiency, while modern HVAC systems can barely crack 8-15 without extensive repairs or replacement.
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