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Eastern promise: How Stalin rebuilt Moscow in his own image
(CNN) – When you look at Europe’s capital cities, you see, spelled out in physical form, the nature of the ideas that brought them into being.
Today’s London is the fruit of unintended consequences. Its skyline is dictated by a market economy, distorted by the demands placed on it by politicians who have tried to shift the provision of civic amenities onto private finance.Paris has a…