Tucker Carlson took advantage of his trip to Russia to ask some questions and compare and contrast Russian life with the American experience.
One specific point of interest was the Kiyevskaya Metro Station. Carlson begins by explaining: “One of the ways you understand a society is through its infrastructure, the places where people gather, the places where they go to travel, if you’ve got a lot of people in one place it tells you a lot about the people.”
“So with that in mind, we’re standing in front of the Kiyevskaya Metro Station and this train station next to it. Now the metro station was built by Josef Stalin seventy years ago; and the question is ‘how’s it doing now, after seventy years?'” Carlson continued, going on to qualify that none of this was an endorsement of either Stalin or Putin, but rather a moment to reflect on how a communist country in the middle of a war could appear to be doing better in some areas than America.
TC Shorts: The Moscow Subway Station pic.twitter.com/xX8qRrda3X
— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) February 14, 2024
“There’s no graffiti, there’s no filth, there are no foul smells. There are no bums or drug addicts or rapists or people waiting to push you on the train tracks and kill you,” Carlson said. “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. And if your response is to shout at us slogans dumber than the slogans we used to call ‘Soviet’, and mock, that’s not really an answer.”
“How does Russia, a country that we’re told is a gas station with nuclear weapons, have a subway station that normal people use to get to work and home every single day, that’s nicer than anything in our country? We’re not going to speculate, we’re just gonna raise the question and wait for someone in charge to give us an answer,” the journalist concluded, ending the short video with a tour of the subway station that looks like something out of an art museum, rather than a mode of public transportation.
Comparing this to the type of treatment everyday Americans receive while risking their lives to travel on subways, it isn’t hard to see what Carlson is getting at.
It also didn’t take long for social media commentary to pour in:
Bottom line: liberals are destroying American cities.
— Real Defender (@real_defender) February 14, 2024
Stalin built Russian metro as a literal piece of propaganda…it was built 2 show off 2 foreign journos who will never see impoverished rest of Russia.
It’s very common for authoritarian nations to have nice capital cities for prestige reasons…here’s North Korea’s. pic.twitter.com/dQkKub94un
— Andrew Follett (@AndrewCFollett) February 14, 2024
Being proud of your culture and traditions. I think this is the difference
— Melissa (@MelissaLMRogers) February 14, 2024
Moscow subway stations are legendary. They deeply impressed me, although not the Soviet propaganda art.
But when I travelled to small towns outside Moscow and St Petersburg, I saw the Russia that was stuck in Soviet time. I was shocked to see antique-looking buses still in…
— Xi Van Fleet (@XVanFleet) February 15, 2024
So, turns out America is actually the 3rd world country.
— JEFF.XYZ (@sherwoodmg) February 14, 2024
What’s more shocking is that people think America has 1st world country infrastructure.
Actually no one thinks that except Americans without a passport.
— Kirk Lubimov (@KirkLubimov) February 14, 2024
My question is this – why can’t American cities have such nice things??? I don’t care about Russia – why don’t we DEMAND this quality of life here in the US?
— Milenka~ (@MilenaAmit) February 14, 2024
Complete nonsense. He films this video in the most expensive and elite area of Moscow. Kutuzov Avenue. The metro is called Kyivskaya. This is the road to Rublevka. Why doesn’t Carlson go to Chertanovo, Lyublino, Mytishchi, Izmailovskoye, Medvedkovo, and etc and film there?
— ✙ Albina Fella ✙ (@albafella1) February 15, 2024
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