The most strange thing about this series for me is that on the one hand they show USSR as a country which compete with the USA in a very advanced scientific things, build very futuristic and pretty designed lab in one of US malls, but on another hand show USSR itself as dilapidated and wretched place that looks more like slums.
Recently i re-watched the documentary inside job, about the 2008 financial crisis ( since we’re about due for another ). One notable thing was the docu was made before the trade war on China, and had no sinophobic nonsense whatseover, even interviewed a few Chinese economists and state run bankers.
Fair enough, although I suspect they simply kept it on the down low. But you go back however far you want in pop culture and you can easily find some variation of “ebil russkies”. Maybe it was seen as “non comme il faut” to openly disparage against non-white people, however much they may have wanted to. Now they’ve just been given permission to say it out loud.
The most strange thing about this series for me is that on the one hand they show USSR as a country which compete with the USA in a very advanced scientific things, build very futuristic and pretty designed lab in one of US malls, but on another hand show USSR itself as dilapidated and wretched place that looks more like slums.
It’s nothing new, tbh. Not if you’ve been paying attention to the anti-Russian/anti-Soviet propaganda of the past, oh let’s say sixty years
Recently i re-watched the documentary inside job, about the 2008 financial crisis ( since we’re about due for another ). One notable thing was the docu was made before the trade war on China, and had no sinophobic nonsense whatseover, even interviewed a few Chinese economists and state run bankers.
Fair enough, although I suspect they simply kept it on the down low. But you go back however far you want in pop culture and you can easily find some variation of “ebil russkies”. Maybe it was seen as “non comme il faut” to openly disparage against non-white people, however much they may have wanted to. Now they’ve just been given permission to say it out loud.
“The enemy is both weak and strong.”