> Might I also ask whether the Moscow subway system[snip]
> was built under the saintly Czars or under The Evil Empire????
> 1995 was already the period of free-fall capitalism
> in the breakdown-products of the former USSR, I believe.
>
> \brad mccormick
I believe it was built under Stalin in the 1930s. The layout, in terms of getting people from A to B, is highly rational. The stations are grandiose, as befits the Stalinist era. The condition it was in when I rode it in the mid-90s was extremely dubious. I recall hoping many times that the wheel making that godawful noise would not fall off.
I am still trying to figure out how the people over there or at least their Putain leader can be so happy with reverting Leningrad to St. Petersberg.
One thing I know for sure and is very sad: The Russian Navy, on its website, has a gallery of pictures of important ships in the Russian navy in its history. Three is a, for me at least, glaring omission. Can you guess?
The battleship Potemkin
When do you think they'll bring serfdom back officially?
\brad mccormick
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