Japanese is derived from Chinese so we should ban all anime/manga/nintendo properties from participating as well

Well, of course! He was Georgian, not Russian, should be totally fine!

Ukrainian nationalists don’t just hate communism, they hate Russia too. That’s why they want to eradicate the language from their country.

I’ve seen them post memes about Ukrainian culture being more advanced than Russian culture in the 16th fucking century. I’ve seen football referees flag players for speaking Russian on the field. I’ve seen beachgoers beat people up for speaking Russian. I’ve seen grown men get livid at little girls for singing Russian pop songs.

Before he was elected president, Zelenskyy spoke primarily Russian with his friends and family. Now he pretends to use a translator when negotiating with his Russian counterparts.

Remember the “chicken Kyiv” BS?

i’m afraid russia is now oriental again and that is something bred in the bones. not many people know that russians have a famous USSR sequence in their DNA. they’ve always had it, ever since their thirst for the souls of the living awoke.

I’ve seen ppl on Twitter say that they’d only trust a Russian dissident if they succeeded in blowing off Putin’s head at point blank range and that the fact that no one’s done it yet proves that even the most hardline anti-Putin activists are irredeemable wimps and that even if one of them opposed every law, policy, and military action of the past 15 yrs they’ve actually subconsciously wanted to join the Black Hundreds for their whole life

Disclaimer the screenshot is using google translate so i cant speak for the accuracy of everything

I’ve never played Everlasting Summer, but I’ve read a couple of the fanfics (all sorts of weird stuff ends up in the “communism” tag on AO3, most of it is so bad that even pretty terrible stuff eventually seems worth reading because it’s better than the rest of the tag, precious little of it is actually kinda good), at least one in which a modern Western politically-unconscious post Cold War child of the Red Scare type managed to somehow wind up there, and, well, I know it’s supposed to be all supernatural horror shit, but some of those scenes just made me want to take that guy’s place so badly. I mean, I have fits of wishing I’d been born in the USSR a lot, I think that’s kinda common for Western MLs my age, but that triggered entirely different “myself in the USSR” fantasies a lot harder for a bit, y’know. Especially with reading scenes like the assembly and flag raising, and being like “I’d handle that with a lot less hostility towards the Soviets.” or “I’d want to learn the language quick not because of a cute girl (though that is motivating), but because, oh my god, getting to argue about communism with actual Soviet commies, fuck, yes please!” Like, I wouldn’t almost drop a Soviet flag or feel something in me screaming and burning at touching it, I’ve literally got one hanging on my bedroom wall at home. I wouldn’t have an instinctive panic at hearing the people around me speaking Russian, nor would it take me all that long to recognize the place as a pioneer camp and the context as Soviet times. I do wonder how long it’d take me to tell someone that I’m a commie too and I think the Soviet Union is awesome and the Cold War is bullshit.

The fandom, apparently. Not the show itself. Still no idea how one defines a fandom of something that has nothing to do with Russia as being “pro-Russia.”

Russia is gay I guess

This is what they see.

that will really show the Russkies

That’s basically what all of this boils down to. It’s just Cold War era Russophobia, emboldened, and somehow even stupider than it was back then. In the Western reaction to this whole mess, I just see washed up old Cold Warriors seeking an excuse to say all the truly horrific things about “Russkies” that they couldn’t say anymore after ‘91 happened and hostilities officially ceased. My dad watches war news and shifts into what must be his ten year old self. And the same thing happens each evening in millions of living rooms all across Turtle Island. And then it leaks onto those folks’ social media, emboldening each other. Children of the Cold War, calling people nasty names and doing stupid xenophobic crap and generally acting worse behaved than most ten year olds.

I’m not gonna pretend like we are doing incredible on that front, but you do realize that one of the reasons why this stat is so low is that for decades we were under the Russian sphere of influence. For years the primary message that you would hear on TV on any Russian channels with regards to foreign policy is that Europe is too gay and removed, and that the US is constantly in the state of collapse because y’all are fat and stupid, and that only we, the “russian folk”, are good and moral due to our religious and family values (goddamn скрепы). So fuck yeah, Russia bad - you better believe it. People are doing a bit better these days, now that we’re not in their informational sphere as much, but do you expect your average 40-60 year old to change on a dime?

Actually that’s Russia’s fault

Oh, that’s a really good point. I suppose Ukraine can’t blame people being gay on “western removed” at the moment, so they have to pretend Russia is the one doing it.

Disco Elysium is pro-communist and antifascist, ergo, its fans wouldn’t like Bandera and Shukhevich

the bunch over at the sub would give you a nice surprise, its like a guy who’s really, really into the aesthetics of communism but denounces everything communist at every chance he can get

you don’t understand he just got really into character as Icebreaker