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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€“] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] sooper_dooper_roofer@hexbear.net 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 9 points 10 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€“] sooper_dooper_roofer@hexbear.net 4 points 10 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€“] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 6 points 10 months ago

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