• MacN'Cheezus
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    326 months ago

    Ahem, have you seen the Moscow subway?

    • @pingveno@lemmy.ml
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      86 months ago

      In case anyone is wondering, that’s Komsomolskaya station, built in 1952. Later stations tended to not be so opulent.

        • @pingveno@lemmy.ml
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          16 months ago

          I think I owe you an apology. I took your initial comment as you trying to insult me, given our past interactions. Not that I wasn’t giving an honest opinion on the design itself, but otherwise I would have just kept it to myself.

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          6 months ago

          That’s not opulent, that’s just bad taste. The other one was absolutely beautiful.

            • @pingveno@lemmy.ml
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              46 months ago

              None of the design elements work with each other, to start with. Then it’s like after the fact, some shmuck from the propaganda office told the architects to stick a stupid looking fighter jet in there. It’s like a weak man’s idea of a strong design.

              • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆
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                -66 months ago

                I’ve never read a more sour comment in my life. Thanks for letting me know how much you’re seething and coping there.

                • Grayox
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                  36 months ago

                  It really doesnt have a cohesive design motif to it and does feel like strongman propaganda.

                  • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆
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                    -66 months ago

                    I mean, obviously it’s nowhere close to Soviet designs in terms of quality, but we’re comparing with US here.

    • Grayox
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      46 months ago

      Feels a little bougie if you ask me, but to each their own.

      • MacN'Cheezus
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        126 months ago

        Funny you’d say that, because even though the first plans for it date back to the Russian Empire, it was the communists under Stalin who actually built it.