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[โ€“] [email protected] 32 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Ahem, have you seen the Moscow subway?

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

In case anyone is wondering, that's Komsomolskaya station, built in 1952. Later stations tended to not be so opulent.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] -1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

That's not opulent, that's just bad taste. The other one was absolutely beautiful.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Certainly better taste than anything your shithole has to offer.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

None of the design elements work with each other, to start with. Then it's like after the fact, some shmuck from the propaganda office told the architects to stick a stupid looking fighter jet in there. It's like a weak man's idea of a strong design.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I've never read a more sour comment in my life. Thanks for letting me know how much you're seething and coping there.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It really doesnt have a cohesive design motif to it and does feel like strongman propaganda.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

I mean, obviously it's nowhere close to Soviet designs in terms of quality, but we're comparing with US here.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Feels a little bougie if you ask me, but to each their own.

[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago

Funny you'd say that, because even though the first plans for it date back to the Russian Empire, it was the communists under Stalin who actually built it.