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[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Moscow's is nice too (and we know whom to thank for that).

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

why do actual communist planned economy nations have such great train stations (and aesthetics in general)

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

Car infrastructure is just, and I do mean this seriously, unimaginably expensive. If you do not priotize the car you have such a shitton of money left over you can just put like, chandeliers in your metro stations.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

was the USSR very low on car infrastructure? I honestly don't know so I'm asking (I know they had great train stations too)

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

Late stage, no, not so much, earlier stages? Yeah, absolutely, especially compared to like the west