Leningrad
About Leningrad
Saint Petersburg, formerly known as Petrograd (Петроград) and later Leningrad (Ленинград), is the second-largest city in Russia, after Moscow, the nation's capital. It is situated on the River Neva, at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea. With an area of 1,439 square kilometers, Saint Petersburg is the smallest administrative division of Russia by area. The city had a population of 5,601,911 residents as of 2021, with more than 6.4 million people living in the metropolitan area. Saint Petersburg is the fourth-most populous city in Europe, the most populous city on the Baltic Sea, and the world's northernmost city of more than 1 million residents. As the former capital of the Russian Empire, and a historically strategic port, it is governed as a federal city.
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In World War II, there were air raids in Leningrad. They broadcasted over the radio and also in massive loudspeakers, instructions to take cover and what to do whenever there were attacks.
from 196: No Such Thing As Faking The Magic Dream, 2017-12-15 at 00:32:00 · read transcript
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You get a lot less chocolate grown if everyone stops eating it, so actually the stocks would crash, Dan. There was another Soviet building that was supposed to be built was the thing that was going to replace the 19th-century Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, which was like Tsar Nicholas, the first huge landmark in St. Petersburg, what became Petrograd and then Leningrad. So the plan was to build this amazing skyscraper that was going to look like a huge wedding cake, and on top of it was going to have an 80-metre-high statue of Lenin, and in his head was going to be a library, a Soviet library.
176: No Such Thing As A Communist Caterpillar, 2017-08-04 · listen
Actually the stocks would crash, Dan. There was another Soviet building that was supposed to be built was the thing that was going to replace the 19th central Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, which was like Sir Nicholas, the first huge landmark in St. Petersburg, what became Petrograd and then Leningrad. So the plan was to build this amazing skyscraper that was going to be, it looked like a huge wedding cake, and on top of it was going to have an 80. meter high statue of Lenin and in his head was going to be a library, a Soviet library and it was again it was kind of a ridiculous plan but they flattened the Zaris Cathedral so they said we'll get ready for that and then the USSR ran out for money so that just remained flat and all it became was the world's largest open air swimming pool which is kind of cooler than a giant Lenin head.
No Such Thing As A Communist Caterpillar, 2017-08-04 · listen
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