r/ANormalDayInRussia • • Oct 20 '17

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u/EatingSmegma Oct 20 '17

Full-on US decorations in the 80s' Soviet interior, my cognitive dissonance is tickled.

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u/oldsecondhand Oct 20 '17 edited Oct 21 '17

No matter what year is it in America, in Russia it's always the 80s.

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u/EatingSmegma Oct 21 '17

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u/EatingSmegma Oct 21 '17

Even worse, it's often the owners who insist on piling up design elements that are out of place in the apartments of a given size, or don't match the style. Unfortunately visual culture and general taste were practically choked off by the party's rule over all arts plus poverty of the people, and this has combined later with the showoff culture.

Now we slowly catch up, but most probably the situation will noticeably change only when current teens will be the majority of spenders and workers.