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[–] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 15 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

If I'd outlive the gramps sending us to kill and die, it'd be a pleasure for me to show you and other lemmings around. Russia has many sight to see and adore, to fall in love even, mostly in St. Petes as I'm biased against Moscow. If at any point I'd not be persecuted for printing that comment, I'd gladly do it on the house.

Peterhoff is one of the most popular tourist destinations there if you want to google some photos. A mansion where every room is designed in it's own royal-tier style to cringe at. And that complex is surrounded with a huge walking park with old trees, marble statues and beatiful fontains, some of them are made to shoot at random from the ground to confuse visitors, all of that sitting right at the shore.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 13 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

My dad was invited to a conference in St. Petersburg when it was still Leningrad after Glasnost. He was well-traveled, but talked about how the two most beautiful cities he ever saw in his life were Leningrad and Sarajevo. He openly wept when the latter was destroyed during the war in the Balkans.

[–] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 10 points 19 hours ago

I hope we'd fucking stop before he'd cry once more at the ruins of Piter. This town still has historical markings about what side of the street to follow and where to hide from the WW2, and still...