Why do easterneuro commiblocks always have these green/blue + white walls? Is it really to camouflage mold like many say?
>>2888763>Is it really to camouflage mold like many say?who are these "many".no dumb ass.>communist country>churn out cheap apartments>all the same>all painted the same>be happy comrade or go to gulag
>>2888763Someone post this screen cap, I can't find it.
>>2888765Being born in an actual fascist dictatorship in the 1970 (yes, literally, not what kids today call people don't like), I can confirm that not only eastern communist dictatorships used that kind of paint, and it was used in every part where there was a dictatorship (of either side of politics) by that exact reason: cheap apartments for the workers so they can live near the places where they are working (yes, facist dictatorships also built those - for that exact reason) made all exactly the same and using the cheapest materials available. Fired clay flor tiles used because they were the XIX century standard in all Europe and the Americas, so by midd-XX century they were dirt cheap (because obsolete and outmoded, that's why): two-color walls (white+something else) using two different paints doesn't really cost much more than using just one paint, and is far cheaper than painting the top half and tiling over the bottom half (which is what traditionally was made, for several reasons, including ease of cleaning); painting everything (handrails, etc) in the same color because fuking cheap, that's why; green/blue because it contrasts with the red of the clay floors, NOT to hide mold. They didn't fucking care about the mold. Dictatorships, remember?Which makes for an hilarating comparison with modern housing.
>>2889075>two-color walls (white+something else) using two different paints doesn't really cost much more than using just one paint, and is far cheaper than painting the top half and tiling over the bottom halfbut why not simply keep the walls in 1 color? if those dictatorships were SO keen on doing everything as cheap as possible, why do the extra step at all? if they didn't care one bit they'd just have painted it in just one color so either they actually did care a tiny bit or there has been some other reason
>>2888763Space too tight to let individual household control their communal space right outside of their private doors. This tightness creates conflicts than community that beds public entity to come in and save them.If I live in such unit and I starts painting my outside walls, most of the neighbors would hate me for the paint smell, standing in the hallway blocking people trying to get up, the paint smear on their shirt before drying, they have to be surrounded by the color of my choosing while I won't ever pass theirs, and Id hate them too.The rule is you can have nothing outside of your doors or else its rude.
I think it's a special paint that can be washed because people will dirty that part of the wall.
>>2888763I had always heard that shade of light blue they always painted mental hospitals with because it has some kind of soothing psychological effect.
>>2888763nobody tell him about the elevators (if they had them) that can barely hold 2 starving communists, or one American.
>>2889079>why do the extra step at all?because glorious leader or one of his cronies owned paint plant. you ask to many questions comrade... you want gulag?
>>2889079not everything is a conspiracy. sometimes that's just the way they do it.if they wanted to hide mold the paint would be black. if glorious leader does not care about people, glorious leader does not care about mold. we are watching you!
>>2888763there was something like a 9 year wait list to get these apartments, unless you were employed in a nearby factory then you could get an apartment quicker. these were designed to keep you alive and barely even that. they had heat, gas (sometimes) and electricity. electricity was free. no washing machines as you know them, a tub, and a small kitchen. many of them didn't have hot water. there are several channels on youtube from before the Ukraine war, and during where you can see how people in rural areas and small cities live, you can see the insides of these apartments and the dachas people built (some are 60+ years old made of whatever was around to build with. hell just watch any war video from Ukraine and you can see all sorts of examples. now there are places where people in Ukraine have modern houses, and possibly russia to.but there are still people living in both countries the same way they have lived for the last 60+ years.I find it quite fascinating the ingenuity of the peasants. it's on of the reasons Ukraine comes up with so many uses for the weapons they get. it's from decades of making do with other peoples garbage and scrap.
>>2889075What was fascism like? Do you prefer fascism or capitalism? Was it a successful regime like Singapore or a crap one like Cubatista?
>>2889122They can't be worse than chinese elevators
>>2889172I've been in many, most of them I walk in and then realise I can't turn around because of my backpack. the doors try to crush you. you can't move forward or back, the elevator never lives up with the floor, it's always a little higher, or a little lower by an inch or two. the buttons often don't work and the wood panelling is depressing
>>2889214oh nonot the wood paneling!
>>2889220you are not happy with paneling!?KGB will have word with you.
>>2889075I think it is just a cheap and common way to paint cheap apartments. I remember seeing old buildings that hadn't been redone since the 1970s as a child here in the UK painted like this. No fascism or communism required.
>>2889098You mean plastic paint (that's what it's called here, anyway); it's washable, and when it detaches, you can literally peel chunks of it.
>>2889280>1 project, many housesStill doing it, for social housing, just that nowadays they'll (sometimes) spec different colors to make it look more "lively" (aka, gay).
>>2889109This is what I was guessing.Was listening to an old retired pilot who would fly the captuted MIGs back in the day, and he made a comment about how Soviet cockpits were always painted in that color because it’s supposed to be soothing and low stress.
>>2889079The bottom paint is high gloss scrubbable to be almost as easy to clean as tiles but cheaper. But more expensive than the stuff on the top part. Also easier to navigate in low light if there is a contrast line showing how the stairs run
>>2889320>>2889109it's makita blue
