Children's Railways of the Former USSR

It does. It's bought by the Russian Mail.ru group.

In 2016, I went to an interview in their office, and the interviewer made me an excursion around it. At one place I saw big ICQ logo with sign reading "ICQ Project Department".

- Wow, it still hasn't died?!

- Shhhhh! Don't say this so loud, the guys get very offended! - said the interviewer.

The office itself was spacious, with free snacks and drinks, including free fresh juice -- I remember a perfect set of 4 people sitting together, some holding those free juices -- a guy and a girl sitting on small either couchettes or stools, and two more sitting next to them a bit higher on the window, and together looking like sat down to make promotion pictures for some sort of bar. I joked that this was staged just for me.

Then, there was a nice sightseeing place: an imposing rotating armchair next to panoramic glass, to make photos with Moscow in the backdrop. When you enter or exit the office, you walk along a tennis-field-size playground, with people playing, surrounded by a net to catch stray balls. The interviewer joked that of course all this play was also staged just for the interview.

Regarding ICQ, I guess, the project is kept by the corporation for nostalgic reasons -- it was the default messenger in exUSSR in the 90s and 00s.

Here's a couple of detailed and quite challenging videos [1,2] to help you understand, in words far better than I can offer, why the present governance structures of universities are widely regarded as illegitimate by some of the greatest minds who work in them.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5EWYohECRQ

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANdhnoAadZk

"The Jungle" is a work of fiction written by socialist Upton Sinclair who was pushing his platform. It is evidence of nothing whatsoever, much like the Star Trek Federation utopia.

As for failing to pay workers, or selling unsafe food, that is against Libertarian principles because Libertarianism requires government to enforce contracts, and does not allow hurting one's customers.

These pioneer kids would be learning the 'responsibilities' on DZhD, just to face the rampant bribes and neglect on RL 'adult' railroads and elsewhere in the ussr.

It may not seem so obvious, but those who lived their adolescence through the soviet 60-80s in ussr russia are the very same cohort that now authorize the killing and the violent destruction of the so 'cherished' soviet-built infrastructure in Ukraine.

This only underscores that the children inevitably absorb the moral corruption - as the soviet times were soaked through with - just as another survival-skill no matter how it was dressed.

Fuck the dusted off soviet nostalgy - look at the present deeds!

I for one have been very interested of late in the history of the USSR the Soviet Republics themselves and the style and achievements they put forward. I don't think this needs to be understood in the sense of nostalgia.

More than that I think it is important to understand the social decisions that lead to outcomes we despise. As you say, the kids who initially ran these railways had peers or passengers who now call the shots in a society we deeply disagree with. But at the same time we can marvel at how grown up a 10-15 year old can seem while shuttling around holiday travelers.

Somewhere along the way the Workers' principles were displaced by people who sought power over them. Often it is in others' experiences that we can start to understand ourselves, whether by contrast of complement.