^ Yes, I'm afraid the people and country of Poland were hit particularly hard in the Second World War.
^ Those blank end-walls are just the perfect site for a mural; I think these two are my favourites, especially the last as it has a carefully designed paint job on the long facade too.
In England, on a much smaller scale, we also had post-war "prefabs", which also were used for decades longer than originally planned:-
We also have plenty of sixties tower blocks; it was a time when planners talked optimistically about "streets in the sky", ignoring the reality that a dull, narrow and windswept access-balcony miles from any communal facilities is nothing to enthuse about
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