Comment by kybernetyk
18 hours ago
While not in the SU directly, I got to enjoy public transport in communist Poland for a few years and yeah, you don't want that.
18 hours ago
While not in the SU directly, I got to enjoy public transport in communist Poland for a few years and yeah, you don't want that.
Public transport in communist Poland was horrible because it was severely underfunded. Remember that Poland bankrupted in the 1981 (when the West put sanctions on the country after the Jaruzelski's "coup", and sanctions kiled the economy) the whole decade was kind of surreal in terms of state's lack of funds and decrease of living standards.
If they were communist, why didn't they just print more money?
Communist Sydney trains are awful too
And here we come to the crux of the train issue - elitism. You both find it below your level to use public transport, and you don't want to mix with the 'unwashed masses' - again, doing so would be below your level.