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Soviet Rust

A City Journal by penguin1634

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A glimpse of life in the Soviet Union.

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The recreated city you are about to see is a fictional one that could possibly be located along the Russian or Ukrainian coast. The time of year is a mild December on a cold, bleak, cloudy day. The year is 1975. We begin this tour of this small city with a humbling shot of the mighty factories located at the delta of the short shipping canal that splits the town in half into two micro-districts, Polovina Zapada and Levyi Bort. The factories located here are textile mills and chemical manufacturing plants....
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2-1 Teaser

By penguin1634,

I'm baaaaaaack! After an exciting adventure into hard drive crashes and getting shafted by local computer doctors, I'm back and ready to continue with the CJ, now that I have a faster, better laptop. I apologize for going so long without even an update, but I was busy with other things after the HDD malfunction and decided to play some other games instead of Sim City. Anyways, "Season" 2 will be much improved in a variety of ways! -Higher Resolutions. 800x600 can eat my dust. 1366x768 is in and here to...
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The Navy. Isn't it simply glorious? If it wasn't for the Kronstadt sailors during the October Revolution, the mighty Soviet Empire would never exist. At this isolated Soviet naval base, all kinds of activity is to be found. At these docks, patrol boats are stationed, waiting to be deployed to keep the Soviet seas clear of imperialist invaders. Soviet submarines wait patiently nearby the patrol boats, resting before another long Baltic swim. Of course, the Soviet Navy needs to stay updated! That's why...
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Red Army

By penguin1634,

If there's one thing that the Russians love, it's their military. Nowhere is their defense capabilities more obvious than at the various bases scattered across the barren landscape. The journey to one of these high security places starts on a fifty year old railway. The new comrade then gets his bunk in the barracks, which after processing is one of the first things a new recruit does. There are many training activities at this particular Red Army base. One such activity is the large firing range, where...
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Patriotism

By penguin1634,

Things are dull in the C.C.C.P. In order to keep spirits high, the government floods the senses with propaganda and patriotic colors and flags. Most of all are the famous missile parades, the universal sign of a dictatorship. On game day at a modern soccer arena, flags drape the sides of the stadium. Even on the sides of brick tenements, brainwashing tactics penetrate the minds of the Soviet people. At the factories, patriotism is inspired so the workers produce more to power the mighty Soviet economy....
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Grain

By penguin1634,

Grain. Grain makes bread. And in the Soviet Empire, everyone lives off of bread, so one can imagine how important grain is to the Soviet Union. Grain is so important, the tool used to collect it is found on the Soviet flag: the sickle. The grain in question starts in a rather uninteresting place: A soviet collectivized farm. These farms require plenty of labor, and nearby a small town exists, with two small tenements to provide the workers for the people's farms. Here, the people's grain is turned into...
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Petroleum

By penguin1634,

Ahhh, Petroleum. Petroleum oils the Soviet Union's rusty gears. Nodding donkeys bring the black gold up to the surface to pay for the glorious worker's life. Near the drills, tenements exist to provide precious manpower. Closer to the big cities, petroleum tanks hold large amounts of crude. The precious oil is then sent in rusted pipes to the refineries on the Black and Baltic Seas. Even with the great profits the humble hydrocarbon provides, building an empire around one substance is a dangerous game. One...
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A Rusted Machine

By penguin1634,

Rust. Rust is everywhere in Soviet Russia. Why, Communism itself is a rusty machine. Rust covers the pistons, pipes, and tanks at the oil refinery. Rust covers the shipping containers and oil drums at the seaport nearby. Rust even covers the nuclear reactors near the highway. That same type of reactor melted down in Pripyat. Why, rust even covers the surfaces of the concrete tenements that line the dirty streets in town. The people are tired of rust. They want to live in a world without it. Mother Russia...
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