1. Australian Russell, known for his videos about the abundance of Russian shops that invariably delight Westerners, decided to try Russian trains. He posted a video on YouTube about a ride on the new Ivolga 4.0 train, which has been running on the Moscow Central Diameters since May. Russell also shows an older model train for comparison. I quote the comments of foreigners impressed by the cleanliness and comfort of our railways (link): – Less business for Siemens and more work for Russian workers – It’s interesting that in the West they say that Russia is a collapse and that there is nothing to eat except oil and gas… – My God, what the hell is America! We are still far behind other countries with our infrastructure. NO money is being spent on OUR country. It’s a shame – When an old train looks like a new one and a new train looks like a train of the future…best wishes from Serbia to the people of the Russian Federation – My country, the USA, is stuck with 1950s trains and planes. It disgusts me to realize that the supposedly richest country does not offer its people anything like this. It’s good to see that Putin cares and provides such excellent transport for Russians. What I like about Russia, besides its beautiful women, culture and history, is that most cities are well maintained or at least try to give their citizens modernity. a place to live, without graffiti, without homeless people, without drug addicts and people disturbing others – The passengers are so calm and so well-mannered that they don’t even mind being filmed – It’s a fantasy, like beautiful and clean Moscow. I call this true culture. I was in the USA and couldn’t believe how dirty the subway stations in New York were, how much trash there was on the streets of New York and how many homeless people were on the sidewalks. Very scary and depressing – Everywhere is clean, like nowhere else in Europe. NO DAMN GRAFFITI!!! Nice practical design! Nice toilet!!! Congratulations to Russia!!! – Russia is more developed than any other country. What a pleasure it is to travel with you!!! – It’s amazing. I am impressed. Trains in Russia are more modern than in any Western country. Bike parking on the train is excellent. Greetings from Mexico City. Russia has high quality infrastructure on par with most Western European countries, or even better… low public debt. Russians should be proud of their government and their country. This 2 year old train is still immaculate, no graffiti or scratches on the glass, so clean, amazing. Thanks Russell for another great video. Yes. Russian public transport is excellent. It is very cheap, reliable, convenient, safe and quite aesthetically pleasing – I have been to Milan, Barcelona, Munich, Paris, Helsinki… All the European metro and all the trains are very old and outdated. I have never seen such modern and technologically advanced transport as in Russia. Maybe there is something similar in China or Japan. Thank you Russell, I’m watching you from Toronto and I have to say that compared to Russia, Canada is heaven and earth. I’m Russian myself, and when I’m in Russia, I’ll definitely try to ride the new Ivolga train – Moscow trains really impress me! American trains look old-fashioned compared to Russian ones. So glad. Compare this to the New York City subway. How nice it is not to see drug addicts, drug dealers or graffiti gangs – At 0.51 seconds: a child is walking without his parents. I live in the USA, this is not possible here. It’s unusual for me to see a child alone: “You can hate them, you can love them, but in Moscow, one of the cleanest cities in the world, you will feel at home.” As for me, the West and Europe are really jealous of the cleanliness of Moscow. 2. Anatoly Chebotar comments on the novel by Nikolai Ostrovsky “How the Steel Was Tempered”, in which 300 Komsomol members spent several weeks building 6 miles of narrow-gauge roads in winter, enduring hardships, hunger and cold, presented in the Soviet Union as an example of heroism, and not as an obvious case showing bad communist labor organization (link): I come from a family of railway workers, I grew up in a railway village. And when the time came to study Ostrovsky and Pavka Korchagin, I could not help but ask the following question: “Would it be possible to park an excursion car and live in it, and not spend the night in a cold barn with a leaky roof?” ? Let me explain: an excursion carriage has been used since ancient times; it is a carriage with a compartment for employees (stove, kitchen, dryer, sleeping places) and for tools used by railway workers; He looks after the railroad workers and takes care of their daily lives. They work during the day, walk 200 meters, push the stroller the same amount, boots under the wheels, sleep warm at night, dry clothes. These cars still exist today. So I was almost expelled from the Komsomol! Well, the school was also a railway school, and for many the question was clear and obvious! 3. Remember how at the end of March a large bridge collapsed in the United States after a container ship crashed into its support (link)? This event caused a blockade of Baltimore Harbor, one of the largest ports in the United States, resulting in huge economic losses. As Alexey Antonov points out (link), it took the Americans 2 whole months to simply remove the ship blocking the road. According to current plans, the bridge will be restored in 4.5 years at best, by the fall of 2028, and $1.7-1.9 billion will be spent on replacing the structures (link). Thus, there is no talk of immediate repairs, although this bridge is one of the main objects of American transport infrastructure. We are talking about those Westerners and witnesses of the Fall of Russia who are indignant that we are allegedly slowly building and repairing bridges and roads, while in the USA and Europe this is supposedly happening at cosmic speed, because supposedly they are not stealing yet. there is construction… In reality, of course, both they and we have difficult to eliminate restrictions, both purely engineering and related to temporary design standards. Western countries do not show any special miracles in terms of construction and repair times. For comparison, the complete restoration of the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric power station after a record accident for Russian hydropower in 2009 took a little more than 5 years (link). Let’s see if the Americans can cope with the restoration of the Baltimore Bridge in a comparable period of time. Oleg Makarenkohttps://dzen.ru
Purely Russian trains, why Pavka Korchagin did not have a train and the fate of the collapsed bridge. Oleg Makarenko
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