Why is the Moscow Metro so grandiose compared to other Soviet architecture

Re:Why is the Moscow Metro so grandiose compared to other So... by Akcium on Monday May 24, 2021 @09:49AM (#27264327)

As a Russian I'm glad to hear this :)

What's funny is that we usually do not notice its beauty because we got used to it.

And I don't travel a lot so I cannot compare.

BUT

In the past years we indeed got wi-fi, air conditioning and stuff. Some of trains are colored in thematic things, like:

https://www.google.com/search?q=%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BC%D0%B0%D1%...

Check it out, they look really great!

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Re:Why is the Moscow Metro so grandiose compared to other So... by xenocratus on Monday May 24, 2021 @10:05AM (#27264491)

That's really cool! Looking forward to seeing those stations and trains one day. Your link also prompted me to check the St. Petersburg metro stations:

https://www.google.com/search?q=sankt+petersburg+metro&tbm=i...

Equally pleasing! :)

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Re:Why is the Moscow Metro so grandiose compared to other So... by Akcium on Monday May 24, 2021 @09:50AM (#27264341)

But we also have problems, of course: big crowds, random rogues, some of trains are dirty and smelly etc

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Re:Why is the Moscow Metro so grandiose compared to other So... by toyg on Monday May 24, 2021 @12:43PM (#27266544)

I can tell you by experience that those problems are exactly the same in London, Paris, and New York, at the very least. Even in Japan, that utopic land of heavenly rail deployment, you get squeezed to an inch of your life at peak times (but at least the guy shoving you in, will wear impeccably-clean white gloves...)

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Re:Why is the Moscow Metro so grandiose compared to other So... by pavlov on Monday May 24, 2021 @10:43AM (#27264917)

[New Yorker here doing the “Homer recedes into bush” meme]

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