Also looks alot like the 60-80's soviet influenced (designed?) czech stations in prague.. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3e/Praha%2C_Dejvick%

Also looks alot like the 60-80's soviet influenced (designed?) czech stations in prague.. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3e/Praha%2C_Dejvick%C3%A1%2C_stanice.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3e/Praha%2C... Apparently really people just got cheaper, or were always cheap.. That said, from a national economic perspective, it is much cheaper to build a mass transit system with ornate stations than it is to provide everyone with automobiles, so a rubel saved is a rubel earned in this case..