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Ride it everyday, and all the Soviet nostalgia aesthetic is making me sick. Here are some actually interesting stations: - Vorobyovy Gory (the longest station,

by Grue3 9y ago

Ride it everyday, and all the Soviet nostalgia aesthetic is making me sick. Here are some actually interesting stations: - Vorobyovy Gory (the longest station, situated on a bridge over Moscow River) - Dostoyevskaya (decorated with scenes from Dostoyevsky's novels which tend to be rather... dark) - Timiryazevskaya (the only deep single-vault station in Moscow, looks cool) - the entire monorail line (just weird) - Vystavochnaya (the station under business district Moskva-City, it's just huge) - Arbatskaya, light blue line (one of the smallest, and possibly the most useless station, very quirky) Some of the recently built stations (yellow line Ramenki extension, light green line north of Maryina Roscha, dark blue line north of Strogino) have pretty interesting designs, if you don't mind travelling to the outskirts of Moscow.

dagenleg 9y ago
I think the soviet parts are pretty cute. They are curious remnants of history now, since USSR is long gone and we will probably never see "Socialist realism" style being employed at such a scale ever again.
- atemerev 9y ago
  I see you are an optimist! As a Russian, I can't really say that. Mr. Putin acts rather strangely for the last few years.
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arjie 9y ago
I mean, it's only appealing to those of us not living under an oppressive regime. If I were in Stalinist Russia I would have been in no mood to appreciate that style.
- ivan_gammel 9y ago
  That style was designed specifically to make people appreciate it, to feel the sense of people's victory over fascism and relief from the Great Patriotic War, so if you would live in 1950s, it's quite possible that you'd be impressed and like it.
- pavel_lishin 9y ago
  Some people thrived under Stalinist Russia, and many that didn't at least felt a sort of security. There are people alive who pine for it, much like some people who spent decades in prison miss it, due to alienation from the outside world.
- vkou 9y ago
  If you lived through Russia in the unmitigated disaster that was the 90s, you might be nostalgic for the good old days. America currently incarcerates almost as many people (Depending on how you count, more) as the Khrushchev era did, yet that's clearly not the biggest factor in how people evaluate their quality of life. Most of all, people want food, shelter, and security - and communism largely provided that. Poorly, but better then the collapse that followed.
  - thriftwy 9y ago
    Well, it was an inevitable ending to communist experiment, I would say baked in from the beginning. The real tragedy that the whole communism thing even happened. Some people also want dignity. That thing was in short supply back then and is getting thin today.
    - vkou 9y ago
      The real tragedy was the system prior to communism, during communism, and after communism. Tsarist Russia was highly, and poorly centrally planned, and incredibly backwards. It ended serfdom in 1861, for Pete's sakes. The first world war demonstrated exactly how broken that system was. Market reforms, on the other hand, inflicted immense amounts of suffering on the population, particularly segments of the population that were unable to work. (But, as with every economic system, market advocates only want to take credit for successes.) Falling from its position as a super-power to a back-water second-world state was also a huge blow to national dignity. In case you're wondering why Russians are largely supportive of Putin's aggression, its because they see him as restoring said national dignity. It's the story of Trump's deplorables writ large.
      - gozur88 9y ago
        >Market reforms, on the other hand, inflicted immense amounts of suffering on the population, particularly segments of the population that were unable to work. That's like saying impact inflicts enormous amounts of suffering for people who are falling through the air. The market reforms were painful because there was no other option after the mess that communism made.

by Grue3 9y ago

dagenleg 9y ago

I think the soviet parts are pretty cute. They are curious remnants of history now, since USSR is long gone and we will probably never see "Socialist realism" style being employed at such a scale ever again.

atemerev 9y ago
I see you are an optimist! As a Russian, I can't really say that. Mr. Putin acts rather strangely for the last few years.
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arjie 9y ago

I mean, it's only appealing to those of us not living under an oppressive regime. If I were in Stalinist Russia I would have been in no mood to appreciate that style.

ivan_gammel 9y ago
That style was designed specifically to make people appreciate it, to feel the sense of people's victory over fascism and relief from the Great Patriotic War, so if you would live in 1950s, it's quite possible that you'd be impressed and like it.
pavel_lishin 9y ago
Some people thrived under Stalinist Russia, and many that didn't at least felt a sort of security. There are people alive who pine for it, much like some people who spent decades in prison miss it, due to alienation from the outside world.
vkou 9y ago
If you lived through Russia in the unmitigated disaster that was the 90s, you might be nostalgic for the good old days. America currently incarcerates almost as many people (Depending on how you count, more) as the Khrushchev era did, yet that's clearly not the biggest factor in how people evaluate their quality of life. Most of all, people want food, shelter, and security - and communism largely provided that. Poorly, but better then the collapse that followed.
- thriftwy 9y ago
  Well, it was an inevitable ending to communist experiment, I would say baked in from the beginning. The real tragedy that the whole communism thing even happened. Some people also want dignity. That thing was in short supply back then and is getting thin today.
  - vkou 9y ago
    The real tragedy was the system prior to communism, during communism, and after communism. Tsarist Russia was highly, and poorly centrally planned, and incredibly backwards. It ended serfdom in 1861, for Pete's sakes. The first world war demonstrated exactly how broken that system was. Market reforms, on the other hand, inflicted immense amounts of suffering on the population, particularly segments of the population that were unable to work. (But, as with every economic system, market advocates only want to take credit for successes.) Falling from its position as a super-power to a back-water second-world state was also a huge blow to national dignity. In case you're wondering why Russians are largely supportive of Putin's aggression, its because they see him as restoring said national dignity. It's the story of Trump's deplorables writ large.
    - gozur88 9y ago
      >Market reforms, on the other hand, inflicted immense amounts of suffering on the population, particularly segments of the population that were unable to work. That's like saying impact inflicts enormous amounts of suffering for people who are falling through the air. The market reforms were painful because there was no other option after the mess that communism made.