The Ornate Soviet Metro Never Built
カートのアイテムが多すぎます
カートに追加できませんでした。
ウィッシュリストに追加できませんでした。
ほしい物リストの削除に失敗しました。
ポッドキャストのフォローに失敗しました
ポッドキャストのフォロー解除に失敗しました
The Ornate Soviet Metro Never Built
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In the Soviet Union, having a metro system in your city was a real status symbol. In most cities this would be good news, a sign their city was on the rise. Latvia's capital Riga was scheduled to have a metro built in the late 1980s as the population swelled to over 900,000. Early plans called for murals and marble ceilings, new rolling stock to rival that of Moscow and St. Petersburg, but this opulence masked the concerns of local residents. Many thought the metro would displace more local Latvians, making them a minority population in their own SSR, many worried about the ecological and environmental impact of such a project.
In today's episode host James Orban examines the history and impact of this project, its rise and fall in the span of less than a decade.
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