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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Chernobyl.

Also, Soviet era apartment blocks and apartments in Ukraine and Russia.[/quote]
I know it will sound weird, but I grew up in one of these blocks and they are nostalgic to me. In fact there is a FB community where people post pictures of Soviet era landscapes, so I am not the only one. 
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Wow, that's interesting.  We were posted in the region for work, and in the first year were talked into taking an apartment in a Soviet building that was minutes' walk from work.  It was the entire top floor of a Khrushchyovka, and the apartment itself had been fully renovated and looked great. But outside the windows and in the rest of the building itself, it was bleak as hell.  The crumbling walls and general run-down look, plus the filthy, dog waste-strewn land childrens' "playground" areas outside the blocks were super sad, especially because there were often empty alcohol bottles and cigarettes thrown into the childrens' sand pits or under the swings.  I made friends with a local family who lived in a non-renovated little flat and you could hear EVERYTHING from the neighbours above and around them.

We moved into an expat type building after that one year.[/quote]

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