I lived in one for more than 20 years and no, oh god no, they don't. If anything, I actually like the way it looks from the outside (now that I don't have to li

I lived in one for more than 20 years and no, oh god no, they don't. If anything, I actually like the way it looks from the outside (now that I don't have to live there), at least in summer, at least in the memories of the summer in a country I can't even visit now. Maybe not even the building itself, but the surounding area. For me it has some weird charm, it's a unique, one in a kind commie block that I can tell from other commieblocks of the same series. It's not the form that sucks (they don't have any), it's the build quality, the amount of indoor space -- everything is min-maxed to the limit and then still underdelivered even against soviet-grade cheapness (two bedroom, 55 sqm for a family with five kids on a peak of soviet glory). And they also look bad on photos and in winter, when the greenery is gone and all you see is gray aged concrete, but hej, everything there looks depressing in winter to me.