“The most extraordinary change in Moscow was Arbat Street, the USSR's first pedestrian mall. Of course, there's something a little sad about a pedestrian mall in a nation where few people own cars— the whole damn country's a pedestrian mall.”

—  P. J. O'Rourke , book Holidays in Hell

Holidays in Hell (1989)

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