• @Shrike502@lemmygrad.ml
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    See, that’s the trick. They (Ukraine and some other former republics) are now claiming that they were never willing part of the socialist project, but instead were forcefully subjugated by ebil russkies. And that it was never about socialism at all, but rather Russian chauvinism.

    See also “prison of nations” bs.

    • Yiazmat
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      221 year ago

      I hope I’m wrong but some of the trailers give off that “this is what happens when you let communism run amok!” vibe. I remember one of the earlier trailers had a voiceover saying something like “Don’t believe capitalist propaganda! Our technology is safe!” while showing footage of killer robots attacking the player

      • alunyanneгs 🏳️‍⚧️♀️
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        I hope I’m wrong but some of the trailers give off that “this is what happens when you let communism run amok!” vibe.

        Capitalism is so fragile that it needs constant propaganda to survive. Which is funny because they themselves accuse Communism/Socialism for needing constant propaganda to survive.

        • It is really funny, because the USSR never had robots like this nor would they have said it’s capitalist propaganda. An entire fabrication based on what the devs decided the USSR would have been like.

          You can package and sell whatever you want to libs, it’s incredible. Sincerely vibes over facts.

          • @cayde6ml@lemmygrad.ml
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            81 year ago

            The game takes place in an alternate universe where the Soviet Union had an even higher death toll and amount of destruction after World War 2 than in real life. As a result, the USSR embraced robotics and was able to create functioning robots and more advanced automated systems and prototypes of the internet and neural networks centuries ahead of the rest of the world.

            I assume that in universe, the capitalist countries slandered the Soviet robots as being death machines or as not being real or useful in the first place.

            My money in on some kind of virus or sabotage that causes the robots to go haywire.

          • @cayde6ml@lemmygrad.ml
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            81 year ago

            From what I read, at least some of the devs do seem to support Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine. And their discord does seem to reflect the ruling style of the USSR.

            Maybe I’m coping, but I don’t think the game will be as liberal as expected.

    • @lxvi@lemmygrad.ml
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      They are a part of the Slavic people. That’s just another word for the greater Russian civilization. As a word its older than race theory and modern Western Civilization, and the word “slave” for that mater. The word “slave” comes from viking human traffickers who made a fortune abducting Slavic peoples and selling them to the Western aristocracy.

      • No disagreements here. My point is that western Europe doesn’t consider them equals, they are just flattering them to fight Russia. Just like the Greeks were screwed over by the EU, so will Ukraine (this has already started).

        • @lxvi@lemmygrad.ml
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          Yeah Europe doesn’t care about Ukraine anymore than they care about Yugoslavia or Georgia. It’s funny how quickly so many people decided Ukraine was important after knowing nothing about it. They’ll just as quickly move on. Ukraine is Poland’s Poland to Europe.

  • @Mzuark@lemmygrad.ml
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    201 year ago

    This is actual cultural genocide. You demonize any product that comes out of a certain country, in addition to calling for more and more horrible things to be done to the people who live there. In what way would this even be propaganda? Is acknowledging Russians are people who play video games bad now?

    • @cayde6ml@lemmygrad.ml
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      “But the evile Russkies aren’t people! Sieg Heil, kill them all! Don’t bring up how I’m okay with the U.S. starving kids in Syria and Venezuela for the crime of being brown! You tank-keeze are the REAL racists for calling me out. Muh What-Burger-Izuhm!”

      • I think they amplify this war so they can drown out the noise of their victims screaming being burned by napalm or tortured at Abu ghraib.

        Just the summer prior to the conflict isntrael was flattening residential apartment complexes and even their left most politicians funded iron dome again. In summary fuck libs, they are dishonest and scum. Living in the empire, we are subject to the same propaganda yet reached different conclusions.

  • JucheBot1988
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    You hate this game because it’s Russian.

    I hate it because it’s a video game.

    We are not the same.

  • @lxvi@lemmygrad.ml
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    71 year ago

    As a “who gives a fuck”

    Think about your own countrymen. Would you trust the average person to give you an accurate picture of your own nation affairs?

    Second, all the Ukrainians who would have a different opinion “as a Ukrainian” have been removed, leaving us with only this sort of Ukrainian telling us about the Ukrainian mind and identity, which just so happens to be the perfect western-cultivated depiction.