The most strange thing about this series for me is that on the one hand they show USSR as a country which compete with the USA in a very advanced scientific things, build very futuristic and pretty designed lab in one of US malls, but on another hand show USSR itself as dilapidated and wretched place that looks more like slums.
It’s nothing new, tbh. Not if you’ve been paying attention to the anti-Russian/anti-Soviet propaganda of the past, oh let’s say sixty years
Recently i re-watched the documentary inside job, about the 2008 financial crisis ( since we’re about due for another ). One notable thing was the docu was made before the trade war on China, and had no sinophobic nonsense whatseover, even interviewed a few Chinese economists and state run bankers.
Fair enough, although I suspect they simply kept it on the down low. But you go back however far you want in pop culture and you can easily find some variation of “ebil russkies”. Maybe it was seen as “non comme il faut” to openly disparage against non-white people, however much they may have wanted to. Now they’ve just been given permission to say it out loud.
“The enemy is both weak and strong.”
I watched that season this weekend and hated every single scene involving the Russians because it was just pure garbage propaganda. Last season was laying it on a little thick already but they really went all in with the Soviet boogyman shit. Honestly so far the whole season I found myself skipping past large swaths of just really bad scene after really bad scene.
And as a side note I really hate every single time they bring up D&D and the way they portray it being played. I doubt any of the writers ever touched a tabletop rpg.
I am an 3.5/5.0 edition enjoyer, tabletop DnD for life.
And you didn’t write Stranger Things, case closed, Netflix destroyed by facts and logic
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Every show is all production value and surface level finish, with absolute dogshit storylines and dialogue that seems like it was written the day they filmed.
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That’s a pretty harsh thing to say about BoJack Horseman, don’t you think? (Though I do agree that it still shares some of the same problems that other ‘adult’ cartoons have.)
I’ve never seen that, just going off the few netflix shows I’ve seen in recent years. There’s pry still some good things on there for sure.
Godzilla Singular Point is fine, tho
Yea it’s ok, but Monsterverse is better
I kinda like them at the same position… And King of the Monsters is one of my all time favorite movies, together with Shin Gojira and original Gojira
Agree, King Ghidorah was a beast in King of the Monsters,! And my top 3 are KOTM, 2014 and GVK.
Haven’t yet seen GvK, tho! I still want!
Bernays is Netflix co-founder Marc Randolph’s middle name
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How is it that some of the worst people end up living the longest
American media is super anti-communist, even the most progressive productions are, even talking about the end of the status quo capistalista as a solution, then you become the villain.
Or stuff goes wrong and you have to revert your revolutionary actions (Bee Movie).
I don’t want to watch that, but does anyone have a good youtube breakdown of it?
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I never watched Stranger Things, looks like I never will
look, im going to be entirely honest with ya, the first two seasons are literally part of the extremely small catalogue of good things netflix produced.
If you ever feel inclined to watch this show, make sure to not go beyond the second season, because the writers just went full stupid by the third one with the whole ridiculous not-trump insert helping the evil commies build a secret lab under the town mall for… reasons.
Agree. The first season especially did strike gold, and was entirely believable because its about an mkultra like projects in middle america, testing on children and mothers.
The third season, those same FBI somehow change their ways to become the good guys , and the soviets are setting up labs in shopping malls in US cities lol.
[T]he fact that these former prisons had witnessed multiple atrocities against different ethnic groups under various states meant that the sites’ own histories had the potential to threaten the appearance of authenticity of their nationalist, anti-Communist approaches. The full histories of these locations made plain the contested and multilayered pasts of the regions in which they were situated: the Vilnius museum’s building had been used as a courthouse of the Russian Empire before 1914, the German state during World War One and then the Polish government between 1920 and 1940. It then became a Soviet political prison twice (1940–1 and 1944–91) and a Gestapo prison and barracks once (1941–4).
The author continues:
Yet the discovery of detailed NKVD-KGB records proved double-edged. On one hand, they provided irrefutable proof of Soviet complicity, and enabled some families to recover their relatives’ remains. On the other, this secret service documentation revealed that the grave contained the bones of individuals from a much wider range of national and ideological backgrounds than was initially supposed: alongside two hundred and six Lithuanian participants of the post-war anti-Soviet resistance, documents listed thirty-two soldiers and supporters of the Polish Home Army; eighty members of the Lithuanian police (under [Axis] control) who had collaborated with Nazis and their subordinate officers, or worked as supervisors of prisons and concentration camps; and two hundred and fifty-seven people of different national backgrounds who were sentenced for crimes against civilians and participation in crimes connected to the Holocaust.
(Emphasis added.)
Luckily, he comforts his readers:
It should be noted that there is good reason to doubt the validity of some of these accusations: Soviet authorities regularly categorized their enemies as Nazi collaborators or as being complicit in the killing of Jews, where the evidence was slim or non-existent.
Because, as any of my followers know, being an active, generic anticommunist is so much better than being a Fascist specifically. A million times better. I’m sure that all of those anticommunists resisting Soviet integration were very nice people!
That last link — holy fuck
I only know for one actress in it from Godzilla, where I cheered for King Ghidorah to blast her into the oblivion. And and also, isn’t that show supposed to be about monsters/aliens from another dimension, and not again Soviet man bad for 100 trillionth time?
How do you think the interdimensional beings got to earth??? The fucking commies.
I’ve dropped it at the very beginning of the third season when they showed “Soviets”. It was so cartoonish and dumb.
