Large concrete Soviet apartment buildings are a type of girl
This is kind of true actually. In Russian we reffer to different types of apartment buildings by the surname of whoever was in power in USSR at the time, the 3 main types are: 'Stalinka', 'Khruschevka' and 'Brezhnevka', the styles are distinct enough from each other to the point that you could easily distinguish them at a glance if you know what to look for. But the main thing is that '-ka' is a feminine ending in Russian which means that all soviet apartment buildings are, in fact, girls.
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Speaking of such buildings and cool facts, cause people imagine them as grey boxes and nothing else. Look up art done on the sides of these in many different countries! Of course, murals on walls is nothing new, but I thought I could share some cool ones I found. Quite a nice way to make everything more lively, add to a cause, or simply change up the soviet leftovers.
Here's a piece from Šiauliai, Lithuania by Linas Kaziulionis.
The translated text above the image reads "For our own! For Ukraine!".
Some other pieces:
by Feros and Dilk, Tbilisi
by CHAZME & TONE, Poland
by Reus, Slovakia
