Which serves as propaganda. It’s not much different from tsarist FanFiction in this sense. A reader/viewer can be emotionally manipulated into relating to the characters and thus infected with the idea that “oh they weren’t so bad, they were just human”. And subsequently - “well the commies were too harsh on them, perhaps they were the real baddies here”.
Nazi fanfiction
Which serves as propaganda. It’s not much different from tsarist FanFiction in this sense. A reader/viewer can be emotionally manipulated into relating to the characters and thus infected with the idea that “oh they weren’t so bad, they were just human”. And subsequently - “well the commies were too harsh on them, perhaps they were the real baddies here”.