Note that thanks to Trump's idiot tariff nonsense I can't honour sales to the US (which is a big part of the problem.) Green, red and blue are still available in decent numbers.

I was struck, during a lecture on the WW2 Eastern Front, by a distinguished British academic insisting on using loads of German terms (correctly pronounced, too) but absolutely none of their Russian equivalents. Did rather smell of cultural wehrabooism that time...

The game's mechanics actually encourage Soviet urbanism and microdistricts: because you are responsible for providing all services, it's cheaper to build walkable districts than transport people to shops, and cheaper too to build denser and higher rise (so need fewer schools/shops/kindergartens).

I’m actually building a horrible industrial city with cheap workers’ barracks right now because I want to save resources for a big glam Stalinist skyscraper across the river to attract western tourists.

Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic does this well! All resources are simulated and better buildings cost more, so you are materially incentivised to build "just good enough" cities and services (steel is a particular bottleneck and there are always loads of other things competing for it).

Spotted in south London chilling on a POANG.

Karst Vinegar. Hmm. That actually sounds pretty good.