And I have thrown myself headfirst into this European life, with its endless academic freedom, a presidential palace within walking distance, the possibility of joining the army without bloodying one’s conscience
Lmao
the possibility of joining the army without bloodying one’s conscience
:shocked-pikachu: Zizek! What’s the scouter say about this ideology level?!
:zizek-preference: Mein Gott! Itsh over nine thoushandsh and sho on and sho on and sho on and sho on…
If an animated movie whose central premise was “Princess Anastasia didn’t die and is an amnesiac (and Rasputin is magical)” managed to convince you that communism was bad, I don’t think you needed that much convincing tbh
Did that movie even have any Communism in it? All I remember was the talking bat and, like, a dramatic scene with a train crash.
Yes. We see Rasputin get cast out by Nicholas (Who is a hunky Disney dad), and in response Rasputin casts a spell that makes the communists storm the palace. We also hear people complain about how life isn’t as fun as it was under the tsar, and we have the communists checking the train.
Reading a book called “The International Jew” and getting a completely different outlook on my New York friends and relatives.
I learned to march in formation before knowing how to write, and maybe even count. Every morning at school started with a flag ceremony and obligatory salutes to Mao Zedong. Textbooks were illustrated with watercolour Lenins and Stalins, drawn to look much more handsome than they actually were.
Damn, I’m glad that I was only forced to pledge allegiance to the flag and was allowed to wait until high school before joining JROTC and learning how to march and being inundated with militaristic propaganda. I’m so relieved that I didn’t have to grow up in evil communist China!
drawn to look much more handsome than they actually were
:lookism:
As we know evil persons are ugly and good persons are beautiful like :baby-matt:
I scrolled to the bottom to avoid reading the drivel and see if there were any comments (no) and I saw
Aynur Rahmanova is a doctoral student at Tallinn University, Estonia
Pack it up comrades, it’s over with
All the former soviet republics; nay, the entire former Warsaw Pact and Yugoslavia, is chock-full of the worst kind of pure reactionary garbage borne out of the desire to intergrate with the west at the expense of the well-being of their citizens. They thought they could have capitalism while tempering its worst excesses - a grand case of wanting to have their cake and fuck it too, and the result is this.
