Thread:Vorknkx/@comment-3547390-20150204202730/@comment-1496755-20150424094650

Communism may end, but the buildings remain. And a lot of people still live in them. Luckily, we live in a brick (monolithic) building, which doesn't suffer from the concrete panels' numerous flaws.

One of them is the total lack of insulation. Concrete panel homes are hot like a furnace in the summer and cold like a freezer in the winter. In recent years people finally got the opportunity to add some external insulation, though not everyone can afford it. This led to the emergence of "patchwork" buildings - some parts of the concrete blocks have extra insulations and some don't (where the poor people live). Here is a typical example.

The good news is that these things are not built anymore. One by one they will be decommissioned and be gone forever.

Today the canteen greeted us witrh the smell of fish with French fries (a.k.a. "fried hydrobiont with tubers"), but it was gone by the time it was our turn. So we had to resort to the familiar old "grilled bird". As for dessert - there was some sort of pink goo. Looked like the side product of a laboratory accident :P