Don’t be worse than Russia. Please fix.

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  • Russia. Great grandfather was woodworker(lost finger on job), grandma was language teacher(and worked in kidergarden for some time), other was computer operator back when it was specialized job(and I think programmer too? Not sure.), grandpa served in military until retirement, other died before I was born, so I don’t know much. And great grandfather’s family was basically serfs in the middle of nowhere without sewers, running water, central heating, roads, electricity and soviet goverment.

    High ranking party officials didn’t stay in commie blocks that’s all I meant.

    Yeah… Every time someone says how much better stalinkas were than hurchevkas and brezhnevkas, they tend to ignore that mostly party elite lived there. Unless city had no stalinkas, then party elite had nowhere else to live other than commie blocks.






  • We had to make a fire escape plan for our houses, with at least 2 exits… which I really struggled with cause I lived on a high floor, so no jumpimg out the window, and no fire escapes only meant I could do 1.

    The roof. If yours flat. And even modern housing doesn’t have two sets of stairs per entrance(?).

    • Accesability: The majority of commie blocks had no elevators, with the exception of quite tall ones.

    Got it. You are talking about very old 4-5 story buildings.

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    • Renovations: Pretty simple - the apartments are usually owned by individuals, rather than a housing company, and getting all 60 or so people to agree to renovate the outside of the building is imposible, with both poorer people and older people stubborn to change, as well as alcoholics and the like

    Wierd. It is much easier to get 50%+1 in “small” 60-appartments building, than in same in new housing with over 10k people living in 3708 flats.