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POVERTY IS A FEATURE NOT A BUG (lemmy.ml)

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[–] FluffyPotato@lemm.ee 53 points 3 years ago (14 children)

The USSR didn't do much good but those apartment buildings are definitely good. I used to live in a soviet apartment building and the funny thing about that was that every wall was a load bearing wall since all of them could hold up everything. They were thick as hell and fully concrete.

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[–] monk@lemmy.unboiled.info 26 points 3 years ago (2 children)

Every wall was a wall and not a cardboard decoration of a wall

FTFY. Not all of them were load-bearing, mind you, they were just proper walls made of wall.

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[–] FluffyPotato@lemm.ee 15 points 3 years ago

I'd say those were made from at least 3 walls worth of wall.

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[–] uis@lemmy.world 1 point 3 years ago

Appartments in panel buildings have load bearing walls inside.

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[–] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 15 points 3 years ago* (2 children)

Okay, I just went from "eh, commie blocks are gross but better than tents" to "fuck all the other apartments, bring on the commie blocks". Buildings in the US are built so ridiculously cheaply that in a lot of lower-rent buildings you can hear everything.

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[–] FluffyPotato@lemm.ee 17 points 3 years ago (1 child)

Commie blocks do have some issues like absolutely awful electrical wiring or lack of insulation but a lot of ex soviet countries renovate those buildings which leaves no downsides.

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[–] uis@lemmy.world 1 point 3 years ago

Commie blocks do have some issues like absolutely awful electrical wiring

Default wiring is not impossible to replace. My building from 70-ies has global PE, only thing left is to replace aluminium wiring without PE inside appartment to 3-wire copper wiring.

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[–] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 3 years ago (4 children)

How soundproof were they? I’m in an apartment with shitty drywall and sometimes I hear my neighbors fart.

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[–] FluffyPotato@lemm.ee 14 points 3 years ago

As far as I knew I never even had neighbors or I at least never heard any.

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[–] Barbarian@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

I'm living in a soviet-built tenement block, and the only time I've heard anything from a neighbour is when the guy living above me dropped a bowling ball.

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[–] uis@lemmy.world 2 points 3 years ago

guy living above me dropped a bowling ball.

This is universal for all buildings. But I only hear when neoghbours do renovation and wall-penetrating ear-piercing baby cries.

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[–] AlgeriaWorblebot@lemmy.nz 4 points 3 years ago

I find brutalism beautiful. Wish we could have more of it in my country but solid concrete, especially preformed, performs poorly under shear.

It's gotten so "brutalist" is almost synonymous with "earthquake-prone".

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[–] uis@lemmy.world 1 point 3 years ago

that every wall was a load bearing wall since all of them could hold up everything.

It seems you lived in panel building. There are limitations to it like you should not add horisontal chases becaue it reduces load capacity or can't replan appartment because it will be destruction of load bearong wall. So wiring better be done in factory-made in-wall concrete tubes.

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