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This Lithuanian YouTuber has a video about Soviet Housing (using a famous Lithuanian housing district as an example) where he goes into detail about the Pros and Cons. One thing he points out is that a lot of the Cons weren't things the Soviet government was unaware of, the fact the buildings looked monotonous and had poor sound insulation was addressed by the government. But there was still a lot of positives to the project overall.
A lot of it just has to do with the fact these were built in a time when resources were not abundant and technology hadnt advanced as much yet. Like China builds stuff like this today and theirs do not have as many issues because 1. China exists in different economic conditions, and 2. technology is better now for things like soundproofing.
they were also built in the context of a country recovering from a civil war and then a world war
This is widely repeated and only partially true. Prior to WW2, the Eastern Block was mostly preindustrial, meaning 90%ish of people lived rural peasant lives in rural areas and rural housing. They literally had to build housing in cities for half of the population of the eastern block, and they successfully did it in record time.