The Reconstruction of Moscow

However, there was so much opposition to building the subway that before the job of overcoming the geological obstructions in the depths of the Moscow earth could be begun, the ideological obstacles in the "depths" of human brains had to be overcome. And before beginning to strug- gle with the quicksands along the route of the subway, the people who had such false ideas had to be extricated from their owii ideological "quicksands." And here as in all stages of the struggle of the Soviet Union for socialism, as in all sectors of socialist construc- tion, the great role of Stalin was in evidence. He im- mediately pointed out that this problem was one of prin- ciple and not a narrow technical question, that it was a profoundly political question, a question of the paths of development of socialist cities.

Plaffortn of Subway Station at Sokolniky