I expected this Stalinist vision of a "town of the future" to be a completely drab and nightmarish zone of socialist concrete blocks, but to my surprise, I found that what I saw actually compared very favorably to the suburban landscapes that exists around Copenhagen.

There was something quite sad about realizing that even Stalinist visions of the future constructed cheaply in a poor country after the world war, looked less hopeless than the functionalistic model neighborhoods constructed by a fairly rich welfare state in the sixties.

Here's a picture of Høje Gladsaxe in Copenhagen, build in 1968:

And one from Nova Huta:

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Late night confused mind... sorry. However, until the end of communism, there was still some effort to maintain these houses - except for East Germany, wherever I saw them, save for a few replaced doors they usually look much worse now 12 years later.

_{*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.}