Soviet architecture being like that has nothing to do with socialism and everything with authoritarianism. Just like everything else they did.

Soviet architecture is a byproduct of the material circumstances of the moment. The USSR industrialized at an unforeseen speed, took it less than 40 years to reach industrial maturity compared to 100-150 for Great Britain and Germany. They had to build housing for tens of millions of people in newly erected cities from scratch. They managed not only to do that, but to do it fairly, guaranteeing housing for everyone and eliminating homelessness, housing costing 3% of monthly income on average, and on top of that it was built in walkable neighborhoods with a wide variety of services nearby from stores to schools to medical care, and with top notch public transit and urban planning for the time, leaving space for green areas and playgrounds.

Nothing of that is authoritarian, you’ve been brainwashed by capitalism to hate socialism.

Socialism in the USSR stopped existing after the first elections they tried to hold. But it’s not like you’re going to engage in a good faith argument to begin with. Must feel nice to have a Good Camp that can do no wrong.

I gave you hard economic and historical data, what part of what I said is bad faith?

And what elections are you talking about, provisional government?