NBC: Moscow's Subway System Is Stalin's 'Palace for the People'
In a report aired on Monday's NBC Today from the Sochi Olympic
games, correspondent Stephanie Gosk toured the Russian capital: "Moscow
evokes powerful images. The Kremlin, Soviet leaders, the Red Army. But
beyond the Cold War symbols, this city of 10 million people is a modern
bustling metropolis..." [Listen to the audio]
Later in the segment, Gosk described the city's subway system as "one
of Moscow's hidden gems," even to the point of praising the ruthless
Soviet dictator who created it: "Stalin promised the metro would be a palace for the people, and so it is. Open architecture, mosaics, even chandeliers."
Under the Soviet Union, estimates are that between 8.5 million and 50 million people died of starvation, politically-motivated murder and in forced labor camps.
During the Olympic opening ceremony on February 7, a gauzy NBC-produced profile
of Russia described the nation's brutal Communist past as "the
revolution that birthed one of modern history's pivotal experiments."
— Kyle Drennen is Senior News Analyst at the Media Research Center. Follow Kyle Drennen on Twitter.
