How futuristic did the USSR feel at its peak? And why has no one been able to produce cooler aesthetics since?
>>18485826The USSR always felt like it was stagnating, until it collapsed and then everything got a lot worse.
>>18485826USSR was peak "combined and uneven development." You have two pics of Moscow from different times, and one illustration of a megaproject that was never built. But Soviet cities for most of the population were more like factories in the middle of nowhere with a significant number of people living in semi-wooden barracks well into the 1970s. (Also, often overlooked part of living conditions of poor people in big cities is having to dwell in literal basements up until mid-70s.)
