• pingveno@lemmy.ml
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      2 年前

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

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          2 年前

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

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              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.

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

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          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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        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.