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Re:Why is the Moscow Metro so grandiose compared to other So... by baybal2 on Monday May 24, 2021 @02:17PM (#27267827)
The "monumental" works of Stalin era are monuments of sheer cruelty.

When you go to Moscow metro, think think how many people had to die building it, repressed while building it, robbed while building it, starved while building it for you to see that beauty.

Had I had a way, I would've ordered all and every piece of Stalinist work to be scraped off, and buried.

You don't see foreigners walking ogling at Svastikas in Berlin metro. It all was meticulously demolished, bulldozed, scrubbed, and buried.

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Re:Why is the Moscow Metro so grandiose compared to other So... by Twixes on Monday May 24, 2021 @06:48PM (#27270597)
Well, Autobahnen weren't demolished after Hitler was gone, were they? It's absurd to destroy useful and valuable works just to spite a dead dictator. Swastikas obviously don't amount to that, but whole astounding subway stations definitely do.
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