Posted on 05/15/2018 10:21:29 AM PDT by caww
Russian state television showed Putin dressed in jeans and a casual jacket sit behind the wheel of a construction truck with workers to drive 12 miles across the bridge, which links the Taman peninsula in southern Russian to Ukraine's Crimea peninsula.
..."want to sincerely congratulate you with this remarkable, festive and, in the full sense of the word, historical day," Putin told workers upon arrival on the Crimean side of the bridge...."In different historical eras, even under the tsar, people were dreaming of building this bridge,"...And finally, thanks to your work, your talent, this project, this miracle happened!" Putin told cheering workers.
He was referring to Russia's last tsar, Nicholas II, who first proposed such a bridge, but the outbreak of World War I prevented it going ahead.
Another unsuccessful attempt was made in the 1930s under Joseph Stalin. During World War II the occupying Nazis also began building a bridge but abandoned the project.
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Russia got this done in four years. In California the smaller project of replacing the east end of the SF Bay Bridge took twenty-five years.
Love him or hate him you’ve got to admit that Putin gets things done.
Hope it wasn’t designed by those same folks who did the FIU bridge.
It’s now the longest bridge in Europe!
That was supposedly a design team made up of all women engineers.
Oh come on.....this was a huge project any president would be a part of it’s opening. Now the longest Bridge throughout Europe! Of course it’s a media show!
Oh for sure. Russia is not at all on par with the US or even most of Europe.
But the fact of the bridge is undeniable and it’s pretty amazing that it got built in so short a time.
Obama could ride his dorky bicycle across.
Yes, the railroads are moving on time.
I have never been to Russia nor do I anticipate ever going. But if you look on Google Maps Street View, the streets of Moscow at least look pretty nice to me. Far more clean and modern than I expected.
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