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haters will look at a kick-ass obelisk of the arts and unironically call it "depressing" or "dystopian"
Some people just don't understand brutalism. Or knee jerk to "hate the Soviets for building concrete boxes" when they see something like this in Russia. Even if they'd love it photographed in different lighting and if they were told it was in America or Western Europe.
it could use a mural
That's my favourite thing about those "depressing commieblocks" when they were still well maintained... all the murals based on Soviet cultural values or just plain cool art in that awesome socialist realism style. Those were awesome. I hate seeing modern pictures of them just falling to pieces on sides of crumbling buildings.