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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Tell Seattle to knock down and remove the Statue of Lenin. Better yet, tell the political heirarchy in the US to revere our betters intellectually and morally. From Washington to Robert E Lee, and our Constitution. WE AS A NATION HATE OURSELVES. Surely, not 50% or so, but damn close and growing.
If you’re not an ethnic Russian you’re likely to get your ass kicked as kicking ‘’foreigners’’(anyone who isn’t a Caucasian Russian) asses is a favorite past time.
Excellent point highlighting the shameful cowardice that defines the tradiional, conservative Right in America today.
Bravo! Also a good idea to tell them to stop teaching schoolchildren that homosex is the best, that men can have babies, that White people suck and that after school Satan clubs are cool.
That’s probably true, but to GET there, the LEO system and judicial system has to also be a ‘forcing factor’ (e.g., I’d hazard a guess that PENALTIES for graffiti, etc. are much sharper there than in our hand-slap system of justice for societal problems).
To be fair, the Japanese use ‘pushers’ to speed things up and pack the cars, IIRC.
“Stalin built that subway with debris from one of the many churches he dynamited.”
That’s a shame, and he did a whole lot worse things, but that was what? 90 years ago? What’s your point? The Russians are bad? Get over it and move on.
Tucker should get the Walter Duranty Award.
Hey I heard that Mussolini made the trains run on time too.
The experience Tucker had is the experience everyone had in Moscow. There was no reason to put on a show because that’s how it always is.
Even Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, who as you should know was interred in a Stalinist gulag for nearly a decade, then later ejected from the USSR after he didn’t make the powers that be happy, returned to Russia at the first opportunity. Vladimir Putin dedicated a memorial to him a few years ago and spoke on the horrors of the Stalinist oppression. If he could get over it, those of you who never were actually oppressed by Stalin should too.
Disappearing happens here now and people behave like feral animals.
On the other hand, Tbilisi, Georgia, also a (formerly Soviet) ancient, beautiful city, is absolutely covered with disgusting graffiti. The difference is that Georgia has been introduced to the woke mind virus. Lots of purple hairs and they/them looking types walk around. Mind you, this isn’t everyone…the Georgian culture and people are mostly awesome, but their leadership made their bed against Russia and embraced the West. You can see the results (I was there last summer).
Christians are peresecuted in America now. Their churches have been infiltarted by commie RATs.
Stalin is dead and gone and this subway works and is kept lovely and clean.
Yes. the progressive left virus needs to be eradicated. It is a most destructive influence everywhere it takes root.
It’s a sub group, and culture. See Chris Rock’s skit on blacks vs n word’s.
“You are a moron”
Captainpaintball, he got you. With that intellectual rebuttal I don’t see anywhere for you to go.
Cowboyusa, remind me to never debate you! I wouldn’t stand a chance.
I explained my position in post 57.
“It’s a sub group, and culture. See Chris Rock’s skit on blacks vs n word’s.”
Captainpaintball, you might as well give it up. I mean, he’s got a comedians skit to back up his argument. How can you possibly respond to that??
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