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Have you ever lived in khrushchyovkas? "Good ol' " door handles weren't working in every place I've been. You had this trouble of setting the right temperature when you are taking a shower – it's always either too hot or too cold. Mold and cockroaches. Had to fix holes in windows frames every winter.
I'm sorry to disappoint you but it wasn't that great as you might think.
Should I mention how Chernobyl went?
Once you learn a bit of history you'll know that USSR was completely devastated after the war, and nobody came to help rebuilding it as US did with Europe. So, producing a lot of cheap housing seems like a reasonable solution for ensuring people weren't living on the streets.
And obviously accidents only happen under communism.
not to mention that a lot of the cheap housing the USSR built post-war was well maintained until the fall (with a few exceptions), and it's not really until after the fall that a lot of those apartment structures started to fall apart or show their age. But of course, no one talks about that. Instead, it's "this is how these buildings have always been" with no nuance, nor material reasoning.