This person tried to tell me peanut butter was illegal in the Soviet Union because they saw it on stranger things. Like…. you know you can fact check that right? You just believe whatever the tv tells you??
It’s even FUNNIER cuz they were talking about how much they hate the 4th, USA and capitalism… like bestie that was kinda the Soviet unions whole thing. What’s worse is I ask them: what makes them evil? And they answer: because the soviets are evil.
Honestly it’s just sad because people are just so content in their lil ignorance bubbles. Learning about communism from corporate media, being led a stray from any actual class consciousness.
We must never stop explaining in this upside down world. ( lol get it)
Someone please correct me if I’m wrong, but I think they used a Latvian Nazi base as a set in the show and it was supposed to be a “Soviet Gulag”. Like literally the Red Army Fucking FREED Holocaust survivors there, how are you gonna anti-comm that?
Also the guards were unable to tell that one dude was an American speaking Russian with a bad accent. I don’t even speak Russian and I could tell. They just couldn’t help but portray the soviets with over the top incompetence.
I’m from the US but I know an ok amount of Russian. Bad accented Russian is easy to spot because of how they pronounce Х,й vs и vs ы(dont even get me started on -ый -ий pronunciation) and my favorite, the letter Щ. If an English speaker tries to pronounce these letters and word patterns for the first time, they’ll sound off. So that is a pretty funny detail to miss as a Soviet guard. And given the way that English language is spoken, they’d probably put emphasis on the wrong syllables if they learn it quickly. Just a lil Linguistic Nitpicking on my part
Simple. The Soviets repurposed it to contain militant anticommunists, and if they died for opposing communism then they must have been saints.