So yeah, my girlfriend took me to visit the ВДНХ (look it up, libs) and it was honestly amazing. I got Gagarin to pat my head in the monument to the Kosmonauts!!
The monument was dedicated to all the people of the Soviet Union because they made it possible, almost cried reading that.
Comrade Lenin says hi to all Hexbears, I’ll try and meet him in person in a few days, though I heard he’s been real quiet recently.
The Azerbaijan pavillion contained, among others, a memorial to some important Azerbaijani personalities. This is a picture of Leila Mamedbekova Russian Wikipedia link, first female Azerbaijani pilot, went on to train more than 4000 pilots in her life.
Finally, got to see the Rabochii and Kolkhoznitsa statue right outside the ВДНХ, it’s huge, stunning, and my girlfriend told me today that it was designed in 1937 by a female architect called Vera Mukhina.
Thanks for the patience, I’m just stoked AF
I’ve always loved the monument to the cosmonauts. You can feel the optimism and pride just by looking at it.
It’s really one of the best monuments I’ve ever seen. I’m returning to it today to visit the interiors of the Kormonautics museum.
Yuri’s thumb is turning gold from people reaching to hold his hand 🥲
The sweetest thing, right? You can’t see it because I’m covering it with my body on the picture, but the statue includes a bronze step which is golden too, from shorter people stepping on it to reach Yuri. Whoever designed the statue kept shorter people in mind, basedest thing ever!
That’s so cool
nice
has girlfriend
gets to see ВДНХ in person
leftists stay winning
Reddit and Lemmy.world in shambles after discovering hexbear communist enjoys his good life
i’m not jealous of the latter
The fountain of friendship of peoples was unfortunately not visible if you didn’t rent a pair of ice skates to go around the huge ice skating ring they assmebled. That said, I could have ice skated around commie monuments dedicated to ethnic diversity and women, and I didnt have time to :(
Dang that’s really cool. I didn’t see any monuments nearly as grand in Cuba, except maybe the Plaza de la Revolución
Of course monuments aren’t really important especially considering Cuba’s struggles.
I’M JEALOUS I’M JEALOUS I’M JEALOUS I’M JEALOUS
I demand your girlfriend takes you to Tretyakov Gallery so you can see the Tatlin’s Tower model so you can cross off another one of my bucket list items (alongside the Conquerors of Space monument and of course, our sleeping man who I think would wake up for me)
I got to see a reproduction of his model. It was very large and very cool. Also saw his Flying Machine
i though tan jackets were old man jackets but that doesn’t look like an old man fit congrats you rockin it
It is old, I bought it here in Russia in a second hand market. It’s by far the heaviest and warmest garment I’ve ever worn. Thanks for the compliment <3
Man, the Soviets sure knew how to make a monument.
They knew how to make everything. Slogging through Ukraine’s urban terrain is a nightmare because it’s a million fortified steel structures with bunkers that are placed in strategic defensive locations
Ukrainians built most of the hitech soviet stuff too.
Is that true? There was famously a lot of industry in Ukraine, but like space shit was mostly in southern Russia and Kazakhstan, right?
Nice. So what’s Russia like overall? Is your girlfriend from there? Hope you don’t mind me asking, I’m just always curious what a comrade’s take is on how russia is handled today.
I’ll give you a detailed overview when I have some time to rest later, I’m kinda in a hurry now to see some stuff in Moscow! I’ll find some time to do that
oh wow, that first picture is beautiful, man. i love these
Literally almost cried in that monument. Imagine having lived an era where the exploration of space was a humanistic scientific project, and not a dick-measuring contest between billionaires.
Pls go to tretyakov gallery, there is so much Russian and Soviet art there which rarely or never travels.
Clearly evidence that Hexbear is run by
RussianSoviet shills smhIt is honestly painful to me seeing the Russian flag in many communist monuments. Makes me feel like one of those sci-fi settings where people live in a dark era in which they are discovering the remnants of a more advanced past civilization
After seeing your photos, I went looking at pics of Soviet monuments. The funny thing is that I just posted about the exact same feeling without even reading your comment 🥹🥹🥹
Saw your post, definitely an uncanny feeling of having lost something great. At least we have each other to share it with 🥺
Very cool pictures comrade! Did the border crossing go smoothly for you? Also: nice coat!
Thanks for the compliment! I got the coat here in Russia, in a flea market in Saint Petersburg! Warmest and heaviest garment I’ve ever worn by far. Was a really nice find, because I’m a very tall boy and it’s usually hard to find good-fitting stuff in general, let alone flea markets.
Border crossing went eh, Estonian border authorities did a bit of a number to me. There was a recent European law forbidding export of European currencies (in particular bills) to Russia as a sanction, and I quote the Estonian border website, “with the exception of amounts for personal use”. I carried a total of 45€ in bills so that, in case that when I crossed back the border to Europe I missed my bus or something, I would have some cash for a taxi or whatever. After the 1h+ of outdoors winter queue thanks to the Estonian authorities not building facilities for waiting, I got to the control, and after half an hour of deliberation, they sent me back to Estonia for having 45€ in my pocket. I had to go to a currency exchange to change 45€, beg the people in the border control queue again to let me go first because they had rejected me, go through the control again, and because it’s low season, thankfully the EcoLines bus had waited for me (and the other fella in my same situation who got rejected for carrying 15€) and we could get in and ride on to Saint Petersburg. This was at the Narva-Ivangorod border crossing.
The Russian side took literally 5 minutes. I gave them my passport, they checked my face and compared it with it, didn’t even ask about medical insurance, checked my e-visa themselves on their computer, passed my suitcase through Xray (didn’t make it open), and let me go in, no questions asked. So much for the Democratic free Europe and the totalitarian oppressive Russia?
I guess I’m not surprised to see that the Estonian border guards are as unaccommodating as ever. I would like to say that at least you didn’t spend 7h just waiting at the border like I did last year (also at the Narva-Ivangorod crossing), but your experience seems quite a bit more stressful than mine… I’m glad that the bus waited for you in the end! Have a great rest of your time in Russia comrade!
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