devs are pretty sure from a former soviet republic so they probably have a very...complicated relationship with their history no doubt. game still rocks though it's was so weird to get used to building tall multistory building clusters in the middle of nowhere because it works so well

Oh it's def better than most building and city sims from what I've seen on lets plays on youtube (there's this one game on steam that legit forces peeps into creating a libertarian hellscape with insanely rich people and then scores of migrant workers to unlock a futuristic utopia and the devs are proud of that). It could be that the devs don't want to go full propaganda and instead are utilizing how (G)amers have ironic love for soviet stuff minus the "filthy gobulism".