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.

I watched that season this weekend and hated every single scene involving the Russians because it was just pure garbage propaganda. Last season was laying it on a little thick already but they really went all in with the Soviet boogyman shit. Honestly so far the whole season I found myself skipping past large swaths of just really bad scene after really bad scene.

And as a side note I really hate every single time they bring up D&D and the way they portray it being played. I doubt any of the writers ever touched a tabletop rpg.

American media is super anti-communist, even the most progressive productions are, even talking about the end of the status quo capistalista as a solution, then you become the villain.

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I never watched Stranger Things, looks like I never will

[T]he fact that these former prisons had witnessed multiple atrocities against different ethnic groups under various states meant that the sites’ own histories had the potential to threaten the appearance of authenticity of their nationalist, anti-Communist approaches. The full histories of these locations made plain the contested and multilayered pasts of the regions in which they were situated: the Vilnius museum’s building had been used as a courthouse of the Russian Empire before 1914, the German state during World War One and then the Polish government between 1920 and 1940. It then became a Soviet political prison twice (1940–1 and 1944–91) and a Gestapo prison and barracks once (1941–4).

The author continues:

Yet the discovery of detailed NKVD-KGB records proved double-edged. On one hand, they provided irrefutable proof of Soviet complicity, and enabled some families to recover their relatives’ remains. On the other, this secret service documentation revealed that the grave contained the bones of individuals from a much wider range of national and ideological backgrounds than was initially supposed: alongside two hundred and six Lithuanian participants of the post-war anti-Soviet resistance, documents listed thirty-two soldiers and supporters of the Polish Home Army; eighty members of the Lithuanian police (under [Axis] control) who had collaborated with Nazis and their subordinate officers, or worked as supervisors of prisons and concentration camps; and two hundred and fifty-seven people of different national backgrounds who were sentenced for crimes against civilians and participation in crimes connected to the Holocaust.

(Emphasis added.)

Luckily, he comforts his readers:

It should be noted that there is good reason to doubt the validity of some of these accusations: Soviet authorities regularly categorized their enemies as Nazi collaborators or as being complicit in the killing of Jews, where the evidence was slim or non-existent.

Because, as any of my followers know, being an active, generic anticommunist is so much better than being a Fascist specifically. A million times better. I’m sure that all of those anticommunists resisting Soviet integration were very nice people!

I only know for one actress in it from Godzilla, where I cheered for King Ghidorah to blast her into the oblivion. And and also, isn’t that show supposed to be about monsters/aliens from another dimension, and not again Soviet man bad for 100 trillionth time?

I’ve dropped it at the very beginning of the third season when they showed “Soviets”. It was so cartoonish and dumb.

Cope