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God bless the imperial system and bald eagles ๐Ÿฆ…๐Ÿฆ…๐Ÿฆ…๐Ÿฆ… (oil too) (lemmus.org)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 23 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Ahem, have you seen the Moscow subway?

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 9 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.