I once showed my lib sister pictures of my Polish ex’s grandpa taking his family on a trip to a lake where they were all swimming and having picnics and shit.
She’s insisted it must be fake because the concept of someone going on a nice lake trip in the USSR was inconceivable.
The entire USSR in the liberal mind as it’s always pictured in all Western media: one continuous tract of depressing brutalist apartment blocks in the middle of a snowstorm, and also Siberia and bears, and barbed wire everywhere.
I once showed my lib sister pictures of my Polish ex’s grandpa taking his family on a trip to a lake where they were all swimming and having picnics and shit.
She’s insisted it must be fake because the concept of someone going on a nice lake trip in the USSR was inconceivable.
The entire USSR in the liberal mind as it’s always pictured in all Western media: one continuous tract of depressing brutalist apartment blocks in the middle of a snowstorm, and also Siberia and bears, and barbed wire everywhere.
It’s like how Afghanistan isn’t all rocky mountains and desert - but if you showed this in a movie set there western audiences would lose their minds.
Put a tan filter on it and play some notes on an oud and you’d get most of the way there
aww yeah it’s duduk time