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Which thirdie country has the best subway system(s)?
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Moscow
>inb4 that's second world
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>>2067282
sex with this creature

>>2067285
more than that, moscow is not a country
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>>2067285
>>inb4 that's second world
It hasn't been second world since the early 90s, now it's just third world
>>2067286
>moscow is not a country
also this
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>>2067282
jp, no firstie would have these
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>>2067285
Beat me to it.
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>>2067286
>moscow is not a country
STFU Retard
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>>2067282
Brazil now, India in the future. The latter is building SO god damn much.
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>>2067521
OH FUCK, also China. desu I should've said that.
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>>2067282
Bulgaria.
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ITT:
>first world is only when your country is run by jews
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>>2067285
Imo Moscow & St. Petersburg are second world (used to be first world before uncle Vlad went full retard)

Any major city with population around or above one million is third world (again, used to be second world but alas)

And the rest of the country is either fourth world or downright wasteland
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>>2067303
What's a woman?
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>>2067689
You don't know what any of these words mean

At no point in Russia's history was it ever first world. First world, Second World, and Third World are all Cold War era terms that we've just re-appropriated as shorthand for a countries development
First World = USA/NATO and friends
Second World = USSR and friends
Third World = Everyone else
After the collapse of the USSR in 1991, the Second World died, leaving only the First World and the Third World. Modern Russia is a Third World country.
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>>2067282
New York.
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>>2067773
wouldnt russia and its immediate vassals (like say georgia) still be 2nd world since they're effectively just the evolution of the USSR

>>2067536
yes, actually, 1st world is a western term to denote NATO countries (and those with "NATO Ally" status) specifically

latvia and lithuania used to be "second world" but then they joined nato. like >>2067773 said it's basically shorthand for
>countries we like
>countries we dont like
>countries that do not matter
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>>2067781
Russia only has a handful of vassals at best, not enough for them to be considered a multipolar bloc like they once were. The closest we have to a second world is China, but China doesn't really have any allies or vassals like the USSR did (BRICS isn't an answer to NATO, it's an economic alliance, not a defensive one, and none of its member states share a common goal or ideology other than being contrarians to the Global North)
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>>2067781
First and third world had a semantic shit after the cold war, now they simply mean developed country and shithole country respectively. Russia is a shithole country so it's third world.
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>>2067773
>First world, Second World, and Third World are all Cold War era terms that we've just re-appropriated as shorthand for a countries development
That actually makes a point of Russia still being second world since development-wise it's between first and third world, and the political classification is pointless anyway.
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>>2067807
Moscow subway looks better than any subway in the US and probably better than most in Europe. You're a dumb turd.
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>>2067786
true and fair but they are still by original definition second world and by modern gen x/millenial "definition" of "kinda poor country but it matters enough that when shit happens there it affects us" still second world


but then again we have people itt who literally understand that Moscow isn't a country so do any of these definitions really matter?
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>>2067860
Bangkok's MRT is really nice and has decent coverage of the city. I can't think of a nation with comparable wealth with anything close to it.
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>>2067689
Do you even know what first, second and third world means?
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>>2067871
I need to see the Reds some day, a metre gauge 160 km/h suburban train, I should probably write a bucket list starting with it
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>>2067282
Santo Domingo Metro in the Dominican Republic, probably.
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>>2067536
That would make Russia first world if that were the case
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The US is pretty good by third world standards
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Mexico City is good by third world standards. When first built, much of the population was illiterate, so stations were given pictograms in addition to names and line colors.
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>>2067286
>>2067287
>moscow is not a country
moscow IS the country
anything beyond the ring might as well be jungle
t. proud moscow denizen
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>>2070300
>When first built, much of the population was illiterate
That seems like an urban legend, it's not Santa Virgin de Tlaxopocalpatlextlocl de la Sierra de Azuhuayancaxtlopotlepec in Guerrero it's Mexico City where "poor" means you only have one car and you have to ride the subway when it's not your license plate day

More likely they just thought the pictograms were cool since Mexicans are obsessed with visual art and design
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>>2070302
People visit Mexico City from other areas. It's not much of an issue now but when the system was being planned, it absolutely was a concern and they intentionally designed for it.
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>>2070306
I mean sure I can see that as being floated as the rationalization but the practical application seems like a real stretch. Even in 1970 the adult literacy rate nationally was almost 80% and that includes the most impoverished backwaters. And "adult literacy" means you can fluently read, write, and communicate in written form. Like, I'm functionally illiterate in Russian but if you dropped me in the Moscow Metro I could certainly decipher enough cyrillic to make sense of which station I'm in and which station I need to get to. So the remaining 20% of the population likely included a majority of people who could easily read individual words.

On top of which, how many completely illiterate people from a backwater village were just randomly dropping into an airbnb in Coyoacan in 1970 to hang out with the bohemians and smoke weed and read communist poetry? The whole thing just sounds like a cool story people tell to tourists that sounds cool but isn't true. Like "midtown manhattan and downtown has a gap in high rises because of the bedrock" (absolutely false but it's been repeated as a fun fact for decades)
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>>2070301
Geez, no wonder all the republics want to get away.

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