putting my hand on the lathe In Dune Messiah, they're going to replace the part where Paul compares himself with Hitler, and have him quote the victims of communism propaganda.

Posadas [he/him, they/them] · 4 months ago

putting my hand on the lathe In Dune Messiah, they're going to replace the part where Paul compares himself with Hitler, and have him quote the victims of communism propaganda.

Kaplya · edit-2 4 months ago

Wait I thought Vladimir Harkonnen is the Putin of Dune’s universe? Is he the descendant or something? I’m not familiar with the lore.

huf [he/him] · 4 months ago

he's not russian, he's just vaguely russian-coded to sound evil. he is evil, yes, but also herbert felt like painting him russian for reasons... he failed a bit because harkonnen was taken from a finnish surname afaik.

新星 [they/them/🏳️‍⚧️]@lemmygrad.ml · 4 months ago

Probably Cold War reasons. Let's not forget the original novel was written in 1965

NuraShiny [any] · 4 months ago

The origin of the name Harkonnen is Härkönen, a Finnish name. Herbert apparently saw that name in a phone book and thought it sounded Soviet. As always, libs do no research and just assume whatever the fuck they want.

*putting my hand on the lathe* In Dune Messiah, they're going to replace the part where Paul compares himself with Hitler, and have him quote the victims of communism propaganda.

*putting my hand on the lathe* In Dune Messiah, they're going to replace the part where Paul compares himself with Hitler, and have him quote the victims of communism propaganda.

putting my hand on the lathe In Dune Messiah, they're going to replace the part where Paul compares himself with Hitler, and have him quote the victims of communism propaganda.

putting my hand on the lathe In Dune Messiah, they're going to replace the part where Paul compares himself with Hitler, and have him quote the victims of communism propaganda.