Comments by "mpetersen6" (@mpetersen6) on "Why Russia plans cities even worse than the USSR" video.

  1. Job requirement for all urban planners. Extensive experience playing city building games 🙄 One problem I see in a lot of urban planning is population growth out pacing existing services. At least that's my opinion.
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  2. If they had an urban planning system that worked for them why not stick with it. At least they have to be better than places like Cabrini Green. Don't misunderstand. I'm no fan of of the Soviet Union. Maybe because I know I lived a good portion of my life in the crosshairs of an ICBM (1). In many ways I blame the Cold War more on the USSR than the US (2). I understand that the Soviet Union had legitimate security concerns. Instead of turning the countries of Eastern Europe into copies of itself requiring them to be neutral would have ratcheted tensions down a lot. 1) And I expect that the feeling is reciprocated. But then the Russian, OK Soviet, citizens were not the real enemy of the US and the West. The CPSU was. 2) Some actions the US undertook did not help either. Overflights for one. The Soviets had several big advantage over the US intelligence wise. The US and by extension Western Europe offers much more freedom of movement for the individual even foreign nationals. Plus the press in the US and Western Europe because there is always some portion of it in opposition to the sitting government. Simply can not keep their mouths shut about major national security issues. And this goes for more conservative or liberal portions of the media (3). 3) At various times the media likes to complain about censorship. And rightly so. Yet at the same time the Media constantly practices censorship. Only they call it editing. If a major story happens and a media outlet only prints or broadcasts certain aspects of the story. Or intentionally leaves out certain things that are important parts of the event. Not only is that censorship it is also a disservice to public as a whole.
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  3.  @satyakisil4289  Not really. You can be friends with no one and still hate others. Or be more biased towards one person or nation than another.
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