Building Paradise: Stalin Architecture in a Communist World
Omsk LifeBuilding Paradise: Stalin Architecture in a Communist World Orlova Music Clip The architecture of a city such as Omsk is history itself. I can see the different styles and place them in the right decade, or rather with the right ruler of the Soviet Union. Brezhnev and Kruschev styles can be applied to the five-story walk-ups or nine-story 1970s reinforced concrete apartments. Functional, with no nonsense. The layout of the community was like an army barracks-style micro-region, but the flats inside were practical and had large windows, were warm, and had at least one window facing south. Kruchev actually cut back on all the 'Stalin excesses' and seemed to have one thing in mind—to compete with America. To do that, he invested much of the economy in new-fangled weapons. Beauty in housing went out the window, so to speak. And while this would give rise to the view of Grey Communism, we shouldn't forget that the same cheap miminalism flooded the western styles of America. Chicago's affordable housing has been long destroyed, as in Baltimore, as these areas became hopelessly infested drug and crime zones, but in Russia, the high rises live on and seem to last forever. But Communism wasn't gray at all, and we must go back to the Stalin years to really appreciate the color and beauty that the Revolution brought through Stalin. Look at the cozy cottage style of a house in Neftaniki that has recently been restored. A whole city in area was built like that for workers. Bay windows, high ceilings, moldings, greenery. Omsk was given the Soviet title of 'Garden City' back then due to the abundance of gardens and greenery. If you look at pictures from the time of Dostoevsky, where there wasn't a single tree to be seen and where dust storms ravaged the countryside regularly, you'll understand the transformation of Omsk by talented city designers from the Stalin era. The Stalin Towers, well, we think of Moscow, but Omsk had an architect from Leningrad who designed the House with a Spire. Avia-Gorod was built as an elite home district for pilots. In fact, the Stalin era was one where consumers had full food selections in shops, varieties of meats, breads, and pastries. It seems that changed when Krushev became obsessed with the West and cut out not only beautiful architecture styles but also limited food as well, and the quality of the food went down. Butter dissapeared. But that didn't have to happen under Communism, and Stalin's era proved that it didn't. Remember that the Great Depression was raging in the West in the 1930s, but the Soviet Union was transforming into a huge industrialized and scientific country. The Stalin's era architecture brings us back into that time, and it shines now as highly desirable properties as the buildings and homes were strongly built for a new civilization.
Omsk LifeBuilding Paradise: Stalin Architecture in a Communist World Orlova Music Clip The architecture of a city such as Omsk is history itself. I can see the different styles and place them in the right decade, or rather with the right ruler of the Soviet Union. Brezhnev and Kruschev styles can be applied to the five-story walk-ups or nine-story 1970s reinforced concrete apartments. Functional, with no nonsense. The layout of the community was like an army barracks-style micro-region, but the flats inside were practical and had large windows, were warm, and had at least one window facing south. Kruchev actually cut back on all the 'Stalin excesses' and seemed to have one thing in mind—to compete with America. To do that, he invested much of the economy in new-fangled weapons. Beauty in housing went out the window, so to speak. And while this would give rise to the view of Grey Communism, we shouldn't forget that the same cheap miminalism flooded the western styles of America. Chicago's affordable housing has been long destroyed, as in Baltimore, as these areas became hopelessly infested drug and crime zones, but in Russia, the high rises live on and seem to last forever. But Communism wasn't gray at all, and we must go back to the Stalin years to really appreciate the color and beauty that the Revolution brought through Stalin. Look at the cozy cottage style of a house in Neftaniki that has recently been restored. A whole city in area was built like that for workers. Bay windows, high ceilings, moldings, greenery. Omsk was given the Soviet title of 'Garden City' back then due to the abundance of gardens and greenery. If you look at pictures from the time of Dostoevsky, where there wasn't a single tree to be seen and where dust storms ravaged the countryside regularly, you'll understand the transformation of Omsk by talented city designers from the Stalin era. The Stalin Towers, well, we think of Moscow, but Omsk had an architect from Leningrad who designed the House with a Spire. Avia-Gorod was built as an elite home district for pilots. In fact, the Stalin era was one where consumers had full food selections in shops, varieties of meats, breads, and pastries. It seems that changed when Krushev became obsessed with the West and cut out not only beautiful architecture styles but also limited food as well, and the quality of the food went down. Butter dissapeared. But that didn't have to happen under Communism, and Stalin's era proved that it didn't. Remember that the Great Depression was raging in the West in the 1930s, but the Soviet Union was transforming into a huge industrialized and scientific country. The Stalin's era architecture brings us back into that time, and it shines now as highly desirable properties as the buildings and homes were strongly built for a new civilization.