Photos of Russian cities look similar to high-caste Asian cities, very clean and sleekly modern but lacking the vibrancy of Paris, Berlin, Milan. I guess Russians are cursed with the Asian genes responsible for being a clean city-dweller more akin to an ant than human, it explains communism and also why Russian cities look so similar to high-caste Asian cities, such as in Corea or Singapore, very clean and sleekly modern but without true vibrancy.