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I wonder why the Soviets stopped tending to their infrastructure around 1991 surely nothing happened around that time?!?!
So you think they just came in and bulldozed everything? If they hadn't done anything since then, it would look nicer
Ok so maybe I wasn't clear that the housing built in a hurry to house people post war was left to rot and not modernised post 1991 as the soviet union collapsed this was followed by shock therapy and capitalists in power who don't give a shit thus leaving the modern "commie blocks" in eastern Europe today ugly neglected and rundown.
When OP asked "why is the outside so neglected?" I believe you have interpreted the question as "why has the outside been neglected?" As in, the outside has been allowed to become ugly. What I believe they meant, however, is "why was the outside neglected?" As in, the people who designed it neglected to consider the outside. OP is arguing the blocks were ugly at inception, not just since 1991.
Perhaps but they appear to be talking about the current. Either way, the answer however is largely the same just reframed and rephrased. They were built to be functional and quick to deal with the fact hundreds of thousands if not millions would be homeless if nothing was done due to the destruction of fighting the Nazis. They then were not able to be maintained and modernised post 1991 for the reasons outlined.