"Are people actually complaining that the game portrays the USSR too positively? Do they think it was a cartoonishly evil hellscape where happiness and anything positive was outlawed?"
Yeah, it forever astounds me how 95% of all western people, with no exaggeration, believe this.
Everyone walked in a single file line to the work factory to do labor, to the “store” where they can only buy bread if they’re lucky, and go home. Everything was gray and the most popular pastime was staring out your commie block window while eating your stale bread
I remember hearing mocking jokes when i was a kid that it took three butchers to sell you a piece of meat at the Soviet grocery. And at the time it was like "ha ha sill inefficient Russians! Communism is when no efficiency" and now i'm like "Damn all three of those guys had food, housing, and healthcare, didn't they.
In the US at least that is barely an exaggeration from what they teach us in school. So if as an adult you don’t bother to do even the slightest unpacking and thinking critically about history, you’ll probably just stick with that.
They're never exposed to any information at all that isn't pure propaganda. Stranger Things had a main character imprisoned in a gulag where they were feeding prisoners to extradimensional monsters. A gulag. In the late 80s. Black Widow did, too. Like straight up, no complexity breaking a guy out of a soviet gulag in like 2016 or something. A couple of Call of Duty games featured... escapes from Gulags. Those are the only depictions of life in Soviet Russia I can think of it media off the top of my head. I'm sure there are far more that I just don't know about.
Stranger Things had a main character imprisoned in a gulag where they were feeding prisoners to extradimensional monsters. A gulag. In the late 80s
Clearly the mind numbing propaganda works too because I had someone literally cite Stranger Things as proof there were gulags in the late Soviet Union :agony-minion:
Yeah, it forever astounds me how 95% of all western people, with no exaggeration, believe this.
Everyone walked in a single file line to the work factory to do labor, to the “store” where they can only buy bread if they’re lucky, and go home. Everything was gray and the most popular pastime was staring out your commie block window while eating your stale bread
I remember hearing mocking jokes when i was a kid that it took three butchers to sell you a piece of meat at the Soviet grocery. And at the time it was like "ha ha sill inefficient Russians! Communism is when no efficiency" and now i'm like "Damn all three of those guys had food, housing, and healthcare, didn't they.
We do that under capitalism tho
In the US at least that is barely an exaggeration from what they teach us in school. So if as an adult you don’t bother to do even the slightest unpacking and thinking critically about history, you’ll probably just stick with that.
They're never exposed to any information at all that isn't pure propaganda. Stranger Things had a main character imprisoned in a gulag where they were feeding prisoners to extradimensional monsters. A gulag. In the late 80s. Black Widow did, too. Like straight up, no complexity breaking a guy out of a soviet gulag in like 2016 or something. A couple of Call of Duty games featured... escapes from Gulags. Those are the only depictions of life in Soviet Russia I can think of it media off the top of my head. I'm sure there are far more that I just don't know about.
Didn't you know 99% of Russia is just gulags?
Clearly the mind numbing propaganda works too because I had someone literally cite Stranger Things as proof there were gulags in the late Soviet Union :agony-minion:
There was that one Comrade Detective show as well, set in Soviet Romania; but yeah, there's not much out there.
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