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RE: [PHOTO ESSAY] A culture shock, not that shocking
feel this is just a socialism thing or maybe slavs thing. the patterns and the look. now as a lot of those countries ended up falling apart and with shitty standard a lot of it stayed like that for years.
except the metal doors, we were pretty crime "free" in the 70-80. i do live in the small town but i know we did not lock our door even at night.
Yes, traces of 'falling apart' were certainly visible during all our stays in Russia - and the communal places in these buildings were way worse than what I'm showing in the shots above. Locking doors was still a thing here - when our keys to our apartment didn't work and we needed to open a 'communal door' somewhere in the building (after already having passed a metal door with heavy key and code lock) it took us some convincing to get someone to open that door for us :')
Made me feel like I had a very innocent/privileged upbringing. I've never really felt unsafe anywhere.
saying again, small town, but i feel my parents had a rough idea of where i am in my childhood (8 to 15 years old), and i knew when i should be home. we were just roaming around, living on the end of the town, some forests (it looked enormous when i was a kid :) ). In those years Yugoslavia was a safe place, until all that stupid war and politics.