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minus-squareStarlet [she/her, it/its]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up59arrow-down1·11 months agoI don’t really like portraying Russia as the noble knight here, even if their actions work in our favor.
minus-squarealcoholicorn [comrade/them, doe/deer]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up48·edit-211 months agoIt kinda works if you understand knights as existing to defend oppressing class of feudalism. But yeah, we don’t need to stan modern russia to oppose western imperialism.
minus-squareJucheBot1988linkfedilinkarrow-up7·edit-211 months agoMaybe before the end of the century they’ll turn into one of those renagade knights (Florian Geyer, Goetz von Berlinchingen) who fought on the side of the peasants? A comrade can dream.
minus-squareTankiedesantski [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up19·11 months agoI put this kind of thing in the same category as Soviet wartime art that depicts the Anglos and Americans positively. Like yeah, they’re not good, but they’re on our side and we’d rather have them than not have them.
I don’t really like portraying Russia as the noble knight here, even if their actions work in our favor.
It kinda works if you understand knights as existing to defend oppressing class of feudalism.
But yeah, we don’t need to stan modern russia to oppose western imperialism.
Maybe before the end of the century they’ll turn into one of those renagade knights (Florian Geyer, Goetz von Berlinchingen) who fought on the side of the peasants? A comrade can dream.
I put this kind of thing in the same category as Soviet wartime art that depicts the Anglos and Americans positively.
Like yeah, they’re not good, but they’re on our side and we’d rather have them than not have them.