• Commiejones [comrade/them, he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Por que no los dos? Wouldn't there be a lot of overlap between people who like STALKER (a video game set in Ukraine, demonizing soviet Russia) and people who think "Ukraine good, Russia bad"?

    • CliffordBigRedDog [he/him]
      hexagon
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      2 years ago

      its just wierd that they are like "this is a flag of some obscure ukrainian group" when its just a logo from the game

      • Tachanka [comrade/them]
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        edit-2
        2 years ago

        From what I understand It's a flag of a fictional obscure Ukrainian group in the game that just so happens to share a name with a far right Ukrainian political party that exist in real life, Svoboda.

    • Shoegazer [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Did the games have a "ukraine good" message? It seems like it was more "USSR bad"

      • Tervell [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        If anything, they portray the Ukrainian military as thoroughly corrupt and incompetent, showing it as completely incapable of actually stopping the movement of people and artifacts in and out of the Zone, and its low-level soldiers as underequipped, demoralized, and often easily bribable.

        I really wonder how the new game is going to handle that angle, given the changed political climate.

        • Shoegazer [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          they magically become the bestest soldiers in europe :so-true: