The Tucker Carlson Show - The Russia Trip | Part 1
Aired: 2024-02-15
Duration: 01:44


=== Kievskaya Metro Mystery (01:44) ===

[00:00:00]  One of the ways you understand this society is through its infrastructure, the places where people gather, the places where they go to travel.
[00:00:06]  If you've got a lot of people in one place, it tells you a lot about the people.
[00:00:09]  So with that in mind, we're standing in front of the Kievskaya Metro Station and this train station next to it.
[00:00:14]  Now the metro station was built by Joseph Stalin 70 years ago.
[00:00:18]  And the question is, how's it doing now?
[00:00:21]  After 70 years.
[00:00:23]  So we went into it to take a look, and what we found shocked us.
[00:00:28]  Now, that's not an endorsement of Stalin, who was bad, obviously, nor is it an endorsement of the current president, Vladimir Putin.
[00:00:34]  You may not like him either.
[00:00:36]  But it doesn't change the reality of what we saw, or more precisely, didn't see.
[00:00:41]  There's no graffiti, there's no filth, no foul smells.
[00:00:45]  There are no bums or drug addicts or rapists or people waiting to push you onto the train tracks and kill you.
[00:00:51]  No.
[00:00:52]  It's perfectly clean and orderly.
[00:00:54]  And how do you explain that?
[00:00:56]  We're not even going to guess.
[00:00:58]  That's not our job.
[00:00:59]  We're only going to ask the question.
[00:01:01]  And if your response is to shout at us slogans dumber than the slogans we used to call Soviet and mock, that's not really an answer.
[00:01:10]  How does Russia, a country we're told is a gas station with nuclear weapons, have a subway station that normal people used to get to work and home every single day that's nicer than anything in our country?
[00:01:24]  We're not going to speculate.
[00:01:26]  We're just going to raise the question and wait for someone in charge to give us an answer.
[00:01:30]  What is the answer?
[00:01:32]  So we'll stop the lecture and let you take a look for yourself at what the Kievskaya metro station in Moscow, Russia looks like today, February 2024, in the middle of a war.