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Martini Glambassador's avatar

When you’re too dumb to even be of use to the puppetmaster you are so trying to please; that goes for both Tuckums and Trumpims. But Pooty turning the knife after he’s plunged it into their chests is Extra.

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Most of the original Moscow Metro (the prettiest stations) was constructed during the Holodomor. Millions of people starved and millions were literally worked to death, so that the USSR could export grain to pay for this thing. Dekulakization -- i.e., just taking people's stuff, right down to their plate and bedding, and working hundreds of thousands more to death in the gulags -- was also used to pay for that.

In addition, some 100,000 "volunteers" worked round the clock building it, for little or no pay, without any kind of protective equipment or gear. Of these, nearly 40% died or became disabled as a result of blasting and construction-related injuries.

So yeah, those stations are incredibly impressive. It's probably the most architecturally impressive underground system in the world. But its human cost was INSANE. And that is the reason why no normal country that values the lives of its citizens will ever have anything like this.

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