Why are fridges in cold climate countries not mounted into the wall of a house so the ambient air could cool the inside?

Question

Why are fridges in cold climate countries not mounted into the wall of a house so the ambient air could cool the inside?

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Answer 1

I grew up in Russia, and my parents used some of the storage space right under a big kitchen window as the second fridge. They even had a special name for it, literally “under-window fridge”. So as a child, this was an entirely natural thing to me. Buying a fridge was rather difficult at the time, so I imagine we were not the only ones.