dispelling the stupid western propaganda about bikinis being banned in the USSR.

  • WeedReference420 [he/him, they/them]
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    2 months ago

    Posting pictures of Soviet women in bikinis to r/oldschoolcool and turning the whole subreddit Marxist-Leninist because they're all super horned up for some reason.

    JK they'd actually probably call the pictures fake.

    • Diuretic_Materialism [he/him]
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      2 months ago

      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.

      • fox [comrade/them]
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        2 months ago

        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.

        • SSJMarx@lemm.ee
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          2 months ago

          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.

          • fox [comrade/them]
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            2 months ago

            Put a tan filter on it and play some notes on an oud and you'd get most of the way there