the era of "Planned Economy-The Trick of Fate" , St. Petersburg was also called Leningrad. In that era of socialist planned economy, departmental approval became the most important control method!
After a few people intervened in many aspects of the lives of large groups of humans, similarity became the most distinctive feature!
Khrushchev Tower is a typical example!
This low-cost, box-like or masonry apartment building with three to five floors of apartments was built in large numbers by the Soviet Union during the reign of Nikita Khrushchev in the 1960s and named after him. It is also effectively imitated in some socialist countries such as the Federal Republic, the People's Republic of China, and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. The residences for workers built in some industrial zones in the 1950s and 1960s in the People's Republic of China, especially in Northeast China, also belong to this category. They are called "tube towers" in China.
However, with the development of society and the changes in people’s understanding of "comfortable life", the "Khrushchev Building" built in a hurry for quick success and quick profit in the past has increasingly exposed obvious drawbacks. In addition, it has become difficult to adapt to it due to its disrepair and functional degradation. The basic needs of modern life have therefore become a "heart trouble" for local government departments and residents. Architectural experts believe that, except for a few five-story brick-structured buildings built that year, which are of better quality, most of the prefabricated "Khrushchev buildings" need to be demolished or completely remodeled.
"Please study the issue of changing the housing construction standards. First of all, the civilian houses and housing for the army, starting from the Far East. I want to remind you that I want this to be done quickly, and it must be commensurate with the dignity of Russian military officers. Our people continue to live in those disgusting Khrushchev buildings." This is Putin's speech at the meeting of senior military generals in November 2007, and it is also the "highest" product of the era of Khrushchev buildings. evaluation of.
Regarding the same street, please think about it. How many cities in our city have Zhongshan Road, Jiefang Road, etc.? Not to mention the People's Square, People's Park and the like, there are really too many! Therefore, in our country, the impression of the former Soviet Union is so deep, and it has been radiating the taste of its history!
China used to be a big construction country. Behind the traditional Chinese architecture, there is also a strong political color. In the old days, official buildings and urban planning must strictly follow the rules of etiquette and cannot go beyond the thunder pond. This has left posterity with different architectural styles under the hierarchical system. However, the political demands of architecture have not overwhelmed traditional Chinese architecture's care for people and respect for nature. "Entrust the tree to live in the same room with nature."
After stepping out of the imperial power society, modern architectural techniques and concepts have further influenced Chinese architecture.
Today China is the busiest and most spectacular period in the history of world architecture. The trend of dilapidating the old and creating the new is prevailing, and there are construction sites everywhere, and a large number of buildings with novel styles have appeared in China. These buildings have done a lot in establishing the rights of ordinary people and breaking the old imperial power ideology.
However, in this process, power and capital have gradually become the biggest contractors of construction projects, and the leaders of architectural values. The strange interest, boring stimulation, and unbearable vulgarity have quickly transformed into a new type of value. Respect, the worship of money, is fully exposed in contemporary architecture.
This film was shot in 1975. The Khrushchev building in the film is an upgraded elevator apartment, spread all over the big cities of the Soviet Union. The opening animation shows how and how this plagiarized work came from. Reproduce fast!
The story of this film is absurd, but it makes those of us who have seen the end of the planned economy era feel at home! Perhaps the planned economy itself is a "fate tease" of human history.
In addition, this happy and grieving romance movie has a very high entertainment effect and has become a New Year's Eve movie shown on New Year's Eve in the Soviet Union and has been popular for many years. The plot is deliberately artificial, but it shows the ridicule of rigid machinery and the same modern civilization.
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