Anything but metric, smh.

Hey, another Russian immigrant in Canada! I feel embarrassed as well. The West didn’t turn me Bi, cute goth girls did. Although you can blame Xena a little bit.

is a matter of proper maintenance to an extend. You can paint a box, it’ll still be a box, just not as grey. And let’s not pretend Russia maintains anything. In Moscow maybe, but most of the country looks just as depressing as shown on the picture in OP. Our government never has money for fixing old infrastructure, only for war. My point is, panel houses don’t have to look so ugly anymore. But people here are arguing like it’s the only alternative to homelessness. Live in ugly, cramped panel houses or nowhere at all.

Nah man. I lived in Russia most of my life and commie blocks are as depressing as they look on those pictures. You have a point that some are poorly maintained, but that’s not some, that’s most of the country. Just a mass of featureless grey blocks. Dirty, ugly and inescapable. About them being good quality on the inside is debatable. The flats are small and I could hear my neighbors all the time. Some of them used to be painted, but the paint is peeling off, only hylighting the ugliness. There’s very little upside to them in the modern world.

You’re right, the dream itself is not something we can criticize here. However he chose to write and publish it. Stuff like this is something I’d keep to myself, but he has no filter apparently.

Russian here. I’ve never heard this phrase in my life before. Maybe it’s local, but definitely not common.

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