Posted on 02/15/2024 7:07:17 PM PST by marcusmaximus
From the very beginning, the Moscow Metro was designed as an instrument of propaganda as well as transportation. Its grandiose stations were not only a projection of the power of the regime but also designed as a promise of sorts, a glimpse for the Soviet people of the heaven on earth that communism would (one day) deliver. It was perhaps thus appropriate that some of its marble was said (probably accurately) to have come from the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, which had been blown up on Stalin’s orders just a year or two before work on the metro began (the cathedral was rebuilt in the Yeltsin years). And, of course, the metro was used to impress foreigners too. Judging by Tucker Carlson’s comments in a recent video, it still does:
We’re standing in front of the Kievskaya Metro station, in this train station next to it. Now, the metro station was built by Joseph Stalin 70 years ago. And the question is, how is it doing now after 70 years? So we went into it to take a look, and what we found shocked us. Now, that’s not an endorsement of Stalin, who was bad, obviously, nor is it an endorsement of the current president, Vladimir Putin. You may not like him either, but it doesn’t change the reality of what we saw or precisely didn’t see. There’s no graffiti, there’s no filth, no foul smells. There are no bums or drug addicts or rapists or people waiting to push you onto the train tracks and kill you. No, it’s perfectly clean and orderly.
And how do you explain that? We’re not even going to guess. That’s not our job. We’re only going to ask the question . . .
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We have been thru this. Putin is NOT Stalin or even Bezhnev . He is like a Tsar. Stalin and Breznhev were adherents of the deadliest virus ever, and the Deep State carries it also.
Stalin dynamited a church to help build this subway.
One of the lessons from Russia in the 1990s is that things can be very bad, but it is still possible to turn it around if you have an Elite which actually cares about improving the future of the country. (even as they enrich themselves).
Rather than wanting to “Repeal and Replace” their own populations.
“...but it doesn’t change the reality of what we saw or precisely didn’t see. There’s no graffiti, there’s no filth, no foul smells. There are no bums or drug addicts or rapists or people waiting to push you onto the train tracks and kill you. No, it’s perfectly clean and orderly.”
So was San Francisco when Ix came to visit. Be surprised how a little spit and polish can spruce up the joint. Carlson was there to be used by Putin as a tool to make other countries believe Russia is in good shape and the war is not effecting them in either normal living or politically. And Carlson bought into it because he’s a stooge.
wy69
The subway station was built by Stalin as a tribute to communism and atheism.
“Stalin dynamited a church to help build this subway.”
THAT DOES IT, no way I’m voting for Stalin again.
Like the few normal people in Washington on Jan. 6?
Tell Russia to bury Lenin’s corpse.
“Tell Russia to bury Lenin’s corpse.”
Tell you Globalists to bury their HUNDREDS of George Flyod statues.
gluteusmaximus is here to troll, not debate.
Russia is busy burying the corpses of the AFU in Avdeyevka...
You have to wonder which 3-letter agency winds him up with all these one-liners...
Vlad has spent $$$ millions restoring churches, try going to Moscow and drive the Church ring road, I have never seen more beautiful churches anywhere in the world. Maybe you take a break from the keyboard and go visit?
Like Putin’s Holy Lake Mosque?
coowboyusa is an IMBECILE!
Yes, he’s now a “TRUMPER”, but he’s also a MORON!
How’re you doing?
What is it then, genius?
City metro buslines, fast rail, bus stations etc in EVERY major city is bogged down with homeless, drug addicted bums. EVERY SINGLE ONE
What year did Stalin die? Future Generals Patton, and McCarthur ran down WW 1 veterans in their tents in the 1920’s. American G.I.s in Post WW2 Germany, were ravaging and raping the women of Europe. The brits firebombed many cities, that did not have any military usefulness. Yet we are their buddies, both German and Brits.
I say the above, because how long do we hate Russia for????? What did the Soviets do to America? Provided us an enemy for us all to hate. Allowed the Allies to win WW 2, by fighting in a manner that cannot be imagined. How many millions dead????
Of course America as founded was a superior civilization, but Russia has changed more towards our nadir, and we have more than edged towards Stalins ways.
Laugh. I find Zeepers so irritating that every time I here their siren call for more money for Z-laundramat I want to go out and run over a turdle.
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