The distinguishing feature of British landscape, barbed wire is loved by everyone. The freedom-loving nation laboriously plants thousands of kilometers of barbed wire literally on every patch of the land, enjoying beautiful Gulag-like landscapes at all seasons.
Soviets did indeed spend enormous resources to prevent their citizens from ever leaving the communist paradise. Modern Russia — probably just as much as the "fenced residential areas" so popular in Poland these days as well. But UK is unique in that they're fencing hectares of fucking nothing so that no unauthorized individual would trespass into their precious patch of nettle and brambles 😂
@kravietz with no grazing animals around?
Nope. Grazing animals are usually surrounded by electric fence. I had a theory it's to prevent deers from consuming the crops, but deers easily jump these fences.
@kravietz This is done to undermine the Countryside and Rights of Way law:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walking_in_the_United_Kingdom
>In England and Wales the public has a legally protected right to "pass and repass" (i.e. walk) on footpaths, bridleways and other routes which have the status of a public right of way. Footpaths typically pass over private land, but if they are public rights of way they are public highways with the same protection in law as other highways, such as trunk roads.
@kravietz Nice folks of the Sheffield Anarchist Federation once took me on a beautiful hike through Peak District that was part of a community effort to make sure the public trails protected by the law remain in use and therefore can't be fenced off.
@kravietz ugh :(
And I thought barbed wired industry is a Russian thing