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>Absolutely! It looks like the toilet block in a gulag.

Maybe the architects derived a sense of beauty from toilet blocks in a gulag.

Even though soviet architecture wasn't exactly beautiful, it wasn't as bad as most modern architecture.

Depends on what you mean by bad. And which era of Soviet architecture. The block flats look like prisons and feel like the budget ran out 1/3 of the way building them. The early stuff looks excellent, at least the well built parts. The overall build quality is a bit hit or miss on everything.

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