Liam repeating NATO talking points. Guests saying drivel like “AMLO is liberal trump”
When will @wtypstan answer for the crimes of the podcast.
Liam repeating NATO talking points. Guests saying drivel like “AMLO is liberal trump”
When will @wtypstan answer for the crimes of the podcast.
It’s wild that WTYP was the podcast that helped me realize that the USSR wasn’t all gulags and sadness just two years ago.
It’s wild where that seed can be planted. With the way that the background anti-communism in the West is so ubiquitous, anything that slips past it stands out.
Hell the first positive thing I can recall hearing in media about the USSR was the inane “we tried to make an equal society, but we can’t help that life is always unfair because of love and luck” speech in Enemy at the Gates. The whole movie was a greatest hits compilation of anti-Soviet propaganda, but it was the first time I remember hearing something predicated on the assumption that the USSR was in any way a good faith attempt to create a better society. Sure it was just as completely wrong about what the ideals of communism actually are as it was about everything else, but showing something positive was enough to stand out.
And to be fair to my younger self, I’ve always to some degree or another identified as a communist, I just bought into the idea that the USSR and China are bad because their leaders are corrupt or something.
Enemy at the gates was cool. Showing USSR farm boys as heros fighting Nazis is something we could use right now, even if they have to wait for their buddy to die before they get their own rifle.
I would do dark magic for a Band of Brothers-style show about a Soviet military unit. Start out pre Barbossa, show life in the Stalin era - then have like three episodes of defeat as everyone retreats east. Halfway through the show is Stalingrad, and the first victory won by the protagonists - then you see all the same locations from the first half of the show but in reverse, learn about the horrors the Germans visited upon the captured populations, liberate a concentration camp, reach Berlin, V-E day and an episode where everyone thinks they’re going to get sent to Manchukuo but then they don’t.