Cops captured a puma inside a residential house in Santiago de ChileCHILE (where it’s summer, but what the hey…), but no one was hurt. The cops took the big cat to the local zoo, whilst the authorities tried to figure out how it got into the building.
Toledo station (Line 1) on the Naples Metro (Metropolitana di Napoli). Line 1 is known as “Il Metrò dell’Arte” (The Art Metro) by Metronapoli; eight stations exhibit works of art. Napoli (Napoli Province. Campania Region) ITALY
Pushkinskaya station (Tagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya Line) on the Moscow Metro. Opened in 1975, it linked the Zhdanovskaya and Krasnopresnenskaya Lines. Many beleive this to be the most aethestically-balanced station in the whole system. Moscow (Tverskoy Raion. Central Administrative Okrug. Federal City of Moscow. Central Federal District) RF
Station on the Warsaw Metro. This service has a single north-south line that links central Warsaw with its northern and southern suburbs. It opened in 1995… note that the cars look like those of the Moscow Metro (of course with a different paint job). Warsaw (Masovian Voivodeship) POLAND
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Stadion station (T14 Line) on the Stockholm Metro. Opened in 1973, this station serves the wealthiest and most chi-chi part of Stockholm. Metropolitan Stockholm (Östermalm Borough. Stockholm Län) SWEDEN
Kievskaya station (Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya, Filyovskaya, and Koltsevaya Lines.) on the Moscow Metro. The entrance to the station is in the Kievsky Rail Terminal. The three main halls were built at different times, the above image is of the Koltsevaya Line hall, built in the early 1950s. Moscow (Dorogomilovo Raion. Western Administrative Okrug. Federal City of Moscow. Central Federal District) RF
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T-Centralen station on the Stockholm Metro. This is actually two stations; it’s the heart of the Stockholm Metro system. The first station, opened in 1957, serves Lines 17–19 (Green Line) and 13–14 (Red Line); the second, opened in 1975, serves Lines 10 and 11 (Blue Line). Metropolitan Stockholm (Norrmalm Borough. Stockholm Län) SWEDEN
These transport lines are the arteries of our major cities… without them, our modern world would die. Make no mistake on it, for all the noise about bucolic rural living, the magalopolis is where most people live today. For people to live successfully and peacefully under such conditions, cooperation, not “rugged individualism” is necessary. That’s why the so-called Free Market is a dinosaur. People need means of cooperation, not means of domination… the great metro systems are a technical expression of the former… not the latter (whose symbol is choked motorways full of fumes, dirt, and confusion).
BMD
Comments Off on 2 December 2012. A Photo Essay. From the Russian Web… The Coolest Métro Stations in Europe
The Red Army Chorus performs “The Song of the Red Army (Invincible and Legendary)”
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Village of Chumazovo (Baryatinsk Raion. Kaluga Oblast. Central Federal District) RF
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Russian Memorial Church. Leipzig (Leipzig Stadtkreis. Leipzig District. Saxony) GERMANY
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The Mother-Motherland Calls! Mamayev Kurgan Memorial Complex. Volgograd (Volgograd Oblast. Southern Federal District) RF
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Varvara sings a modern pop version of “Katyusha”
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The Mother-Motherland Calls! Mamayev Kurgan Memorial Complex. Volgograd (Volgograd Oblast. Southern Federal District) RF
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Mamayev Kurgan Memorial Complex. Volgograd (Volgograd Oblast. Southern Federal District) RF
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Brest Hero Fortress. Brest (Brest Oblast) BYELORUSSIA
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Yelena Vaenga sings “The Sacred War”… perhaps the most iconic song to come out of the VOV… the audience rises to honour the fallen… Russians are unlike Anglo Americans, who’re nothing but shameless followers of the Almighty Dollar and obsequious worshippers of Power
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St Nicholas Church at Brest Hero Fortress. Brest (Brest Oblast) BYELORUSSIA
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Park Pobedy (Victory Park). St Petersburg (St Petersburg Federal City. Northwestern Federal District) RF
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Piskarevskoye Memorial Cemetery.The Motherly Care of the Motherland. St Petersburg (St Petersburg Federal City. Northwestern Federal District) RF
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This, I think, is a fitting way to wrap up this year’s tribute to the brave veterans who fought in the Anti-Fascist Coalition against the Hitlerite scum. There are fewer of them every year… within 20 years, they’ll all be gone from amongst us. Remember them… remember their deeds… remember what they fought against. Bear their banner of glory into the future… and don’t be sidetracked by lying and demonic rubbish such as “Think and Grow Rich”… you spit on their heritage of bravery and honour when you chase after the almighty dollar. We have better things to centre our lives around, don’t we?
Here’s a poem by Olga Berggolts:
Здесь лежат ленинградцы
Здесь горожане — мужчины, женщины, дети.
Рядом с ними солдаты-красноармейцы.
Всею жизнью своею
Они защищали тебя, Ленинград,
Колыбель революции.
Их имён благородных мы здесь перечислить не сможем,
Так их много под вечной охраной гранита.
Но знай, внимающий этим камням:
Никто не забыт и ничто не забыто.
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Here Lay Leningraders
Here are city dwellers, men, women, and children
Next to them, Red Army soldiers.
They defended you, Leningrad,
The cradle of the Revolution
With all their lives.
We cannot list their noble names here,
There are so many of them under the eternal protection of granite.
But know this, those who regard these stones:
No one is forgotten, nothing is forgotten.
There’s nothing further to add, save, “Never Again! We’ll never forget you!” May they all find repose in the mansions of the righteous.
Voices From Russia, Too 
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