The Most Insane Russian Propaganda

[@AdamSomething]

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[@100cents5]

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[@QuestUnlocked1]

This is a neat product, thanks for sharing

[@Hansalicious]

It's not.

[@TheDuckClock]

"If you ever come across the term 'alt-history' online, you know you're in for some weapons grade autism" at 1:36 BRO! Not cool to use 'autism' in such a derogatory way. Are you implying that autistic people cannot fathom reality and can on exist in heavily detailed fantasy worlds?

[@reytop5064]

What. A cringe video. How existence of strange Pro-Russian apologia Isekai book production series proves that they were sponsored by the Russian government or that they at least played even smallest role in the formation of political opinions of of ordinary Russian people? Want to talk about the real example of Russian piece propaganda? Thеn talk about animation cartoon "Children vs Wizards", which was directly sponsored by the Russian government.

[@maxbrooks5468]

I owe my 14 year old self an apology, I did *not* write the worst Star Wars fanfiction ever.

[@lhei_tayuun]

That bit about Stalin and the Star Destroyer sounds suspiciously like the dark side ending to Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy. Which is especially funny to me because in my play through, that cutscene played out with a 2.2 meter (~7 ft) tall moogle trying and failing to look menacing, and now I can't get the image of Stalin in a fursuit ineffectually attempting to project an air of dignity while the entire crew try to hold their mocking laughter until they're out of earshot.

[@TheTakecarer]

@@lhei_tayuun BAHAHA-

[@angrydalek]

I think we owe Disney an apology as well. They obviously didn’t write the worst widely available star wars fanfic either.

[@fkoff-c7c]

... you guys really believe this? i mean..... american propaganda is every hollywood movie plus so many games where a german or russian or middle eastern is the bad guy. america is literally blockading cuba how many years now? i grew up in england and it aint much better there. basically western europeans like to subjugate everyone while pretending not to. we had a vote and we got the loser..... how that a democracy? tolerance has died. hope you guys research. have a nice day

[@jochenkraus7016]

And I thought that Command & Conquer Red Alert alternate history stuff was a bit off the rails 😂

[@Ryan-rm6uk]

Stalin as Darth Vader is probably not the comparison they thought it would be

[@totalwar1793]

Stalin would be Palpatine tho lol

[@YouYouAreYeahImMan]

"I don't like Crimean Tartars. They're coarse and rough and annoying, and it's everywhere in Crimea." -Stalin, 1937

[@KasumiRINA]

@@totalwar1793 nah, he shat himself to death and never returned... somehow.

[@BazingusBoi]

​@KasumiRINA nah but imagine next years we just get 'somehow Stalin returned'

[@Cowboycomando54]

Disney: "Hello lawsuit."

[@The_Hussar]

These people turned shitposting into a profession.

[@mishynaofficial]

It was called graphomania and "I just want to make money off fools" back in my day.

[@The_Hussar]

@@mak5810 yeah, some friends of mine made me familiar with the masterpiece of Chaospatron, one of them even took that name on Discord. I think Adam takes it too seroiusly. "Comrade Hitler" cover really made me laugh.

[@LeonardTavast]

Russian propaganda is almost like shitposting but it'-s unironic and humorless.

[@RandOm-hr5jn]

Start following Russian paid propaganda workers and you see full range of shitposting. Ive seen everything at this point, some of them have mastered the 4chan style trolling specifically and are likely earning a lot.

[@OceanusHelios]

NAFO says hello. We are the counter psy-ops and counter-disimformation campaign. The CIA does not exist.

[@lukenichols8219]

Interesting how the main character always gets transferred into the body of an already powerful and important person. I guess they thought a story about an ordinary person overthrowing a ruler and taking control of the government might give the readers some unwanted ideas.

[@akaking7499]

Good point. They are not asking what if I was back in 1930s what I would do, that's too much individual thinking. Question asked is what if I was a powerful person from past, how would I submit and serve the Russian state

[@phrok]

To be fair, one was about isekai into the bee. Haven't read it myself because I value my time and brain but it's real. "пчела-попаданец" by Oleg Rybachenko.

[@phrok]

Also sometimes they do turn into regular guys who get important later, with this many books it's inevitable, but I guess they didn't make the cut. Plus sometimes there's fantasy aspect of elfs who get isekaid into ww2 as themselves and so not being historical figures from the start.

[@mistral9950]

shhhh shhhh don't tell them

[@georgyekimov4577]

they do sometimes its just a random soldier getting transported with his kit

[@elwendigo2]

"Our enemy is weak and pathetic but also a deadly threat" sounds oddly familiar...

[@diamondhamster4320]

Umberto Eco Nur-F. and so on.

[@animeturnMMD]

Like any american action movie/video game with militaric tematic ever. I mean everyone who can do the same thing do it, China also does it. XD

[@HelloOnepiece]

Due to it being one of the esiest propaganda. literally 100% feeling no thought

[@NeuroDriveLP]

Isn't that what is being said about Russia since 2022? "Russia is so bad and weak they cant beat weak Ukraine!" but at the same time it's also said that Russia is a huge threat to all of europe and Russia wont stop at Ukraine if they succeed?

[@mathiasrryba]

@@NeuroDriveLP Well their army evidently is pathetic, but they got this thing called nuclear weapons that in their braindead posession turns into a huge threat. And they will continue invading other countries, neutering their ability to defend themselves with the threat of nukes, which is exactly what's happening in Ukraine. Western support for Ukraine gets artificially bottlenecked because NATO is afraid that putting too much pressure on Russia will push them towards pressing the scary big red button.

[@tehweh8202]

As a German, I'm deeply confused... are we the baddies or the good guys?

[@scruffy90]

Yes

[@BigChap117]

Yes

[@somerussianguy185]

You are mostly the baddies, Adam just likes to needlessly cherry-pick.

[@Game_Hero]

@@somerussianguy185 given the number of exemples where litterally the cover says boldly so, I don't think so. There shouldn't be any cherry to pick, "some russian guy".

[@coolbanana165]

You have to keep trying, but don't try too hard, okay?

[@guerrajolly7078]

"Russian army and navy are mastering communications" is the most science fiction event in this video...

[@ryanbauer3680]

(Baltic Fleet screw ups intensifies)

[@tomaspetrusevicius8370]

Most science fiction phrase from Russian Isekai was "Putin retired from office after his second term", that one was published during Putins first term :D

[@markstocker5121]

Ukraine keeps expanding the size of Russia's submarine fleet.

[@paulsd9255]

@@tomaspetrusevicius8370 Reminds me of the C&C Generals mod "Rise of the Reds" - for Russia to become a competent enemy, President Suvorov starts out by deposing Putin somehow. Course, his good-natured attempt to standardize Moscovian standard of living to the rest of Russia leaves him short on resources, and Europe isn't willing to aid due to past Russian transgressions I think, leading to the flare-up that leads to war.

[@Armageddon_71]

OH SHIT! JAPANESE TORPEDO BOATS! *Fleet shoots each other before even reaching Denmark*

[@Ivytheherbert]

Broke: calling yourself Anglo-Saxon to indicate you're from the area of the UK where Germanic tribes settled after the Romans left. Woke: calling yourself Anglo-Saxon purely to annoy Putin

[@anthonyhayes1267]

Bespoke: Make Putin listen to the English history equivalent to his weird Tucker Carlson interview rant.

[@italianspaghett4359]

​@anthonyhayes1267 to understand entire context of what I'm about to explain let us begin in 1st century northern Germany and Denmark, where the tribes of Angles and Saxons dwelled...

[@ΧΑΡΗΣΚΟΥΡΗΣ-ψ3ν]

​@@italianspaghett4359Hold on, Tucker. I didn't finish talking about Grimm's Law!

[@maronily]

Trump reads this also.

[@paulduffy9481]

Arty choke: writing a book about spreading a genetically engineered wasp breed made to specifically kill Putin, by mad scientist Dr. Anne Fylaccis.

[@_._LUKA_._]

As a Pole, I feel insulted and offended that my country was omitted from these monumental works. Come on, we also want to travel to other dimensions with Darth Stalin.

[@Game_Hero]

and Stalinist Mordor, don't forget about them!

[@aw2584]

Are you kidding me? Idk about this so called ""literature""" but Russian propaganda COONSTANTLY talks about Poland and how scary and evil it is. Polecam jak znasz ruski, a jak nie to polecam sie nauczyc (nigdy nie wiadomo kiedy sie znowu przyda...)... to sa takie jajca ze ja juz zadnych komedii nie ogladam tylko ruska propagande.

[@cyberfutur5000]

To be fair, they (deliberately) chose time periods where Poland was occupied and such. Maybe you can take comport in that, they are so pissed by and afraid of a strong Poland, that they have to choose the 19th century and 1940 for their settings ; )

[@alexyuu952]

Oh, dont you worry, Poland gets more than enough attention in both russian fictional & non-fictional media, definitely in the top 5 after US, UK, Ukraine, being constantly labeled "traitors"(??), "western sellouts", "warmongers" and "uk's toilets cleaners" (c) etc.. and closing their top 5 "hate tier list" are baltic countries combined. Somewhere in thousands of those insane books some evil polish cosmic empire or smth like that definitely exists... maybe even with a death star?

[@polinanikulina]

Sorry, the orks kinda think Poles don't exist, kinda like Ukrainians, Georgians, Belarusians...

[@oliverknagg5109]

As a Briton, I had no idea the Russian State media talks about us so much. It feels good to be (un)appreciated I suppose

[@KasumiRINA]

EVERYTHING is blamed on "Anglichanka nagadila" (the Englishwoman crapped). Ukraine blows up Crimean Bridge? British spec ops. The russians poison the negotiators and Istanbul doesn't pan out? Boris Johnson on a boat ruined peace treaty (that totally existed). An airfield gets hit with Ukrainian drones? That's MI6. ALWAYS. Somehow, even now, USA is playing second fiddle to the omnipresent Anglo-Saxons, single-handedly responsible for everything, despite not being in power since 1066.

[@Alaryk111]

Uk as sxare crow makes a bit of sense 6th economy in the world. But I am apoliah. And according to aputin it's Poland who made UK and US qntirusdian xD we are like jews of russian conspiracy theories xD

[@EvgeniiSelikhov]

Oh you won't believe it! There are three main topics on TV: 1 Ukraine is about to fall 2 Europe is freezing without Russian gas 3 USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA and not a word about our own problems.

[@ladyteruki]

As a French person, the hate these books have for you guys is humbling (and by definition I don't say that often 😉 ).

[@oliverknagg5109]

@@EvgeniiSelikhov I am a wee bit chilly at the moment. They must be right! Oh hang on it’s just a desk fan

[@darkside2589]

Stalin as darth vader is wrong. One left his son to die after being informed of his kidnapping. And Darth Vader truly loved his son.

[@account-369]

also.. stalin was not russian

[@rakisuzuki-burke4148]

Vader wanted to rule with Luke as father and son. He was a good dad.

[@mylex817]

​@@rakisuzuki-burke4148 that's why he could never win against true sith lords like Palpatine or Stalin

[@andrewgreen5892]

Yeah plus if there is one lesson we can draw from the Battle of Hoth it's that Luke Skywalker would have made a f*****g great ice hockey coach

[@Honkious5824]

Let's be real here, if Stalin did agree to trade the German marshal for his son, he'd probably still be just as hated for it. He be seen as a selfish bastard that prioritised his own personal interests over the survival of his people. Once some one is labelled as a villain, it doesn't matter what they do, they'll always be seen as evil.

[@sqwobu434]

As a Russian I have two things to add. First, a criminal waste of potential for this video is total absence of Oleg Rybachenko, who is on a whole another level compared to noobs mentioned, both from the productivity (hundreds upon hundreds of publications) and a creative point which honestly deserves a whole another video. Like protagonists coming back in time to aid comrade Stalin in the forms of mosquitoes, roaches, bees, bacteria, MOLECULES AND GODDAMN QUARKS, Darth Vader bombing ISIS, a whole squad of the popadanets' battling the coronavirus-verse, an actual book about the galaxy becoming a popadanets and of course the Anglo-Saxxons as multiversal-level threat. The fact that the guy is also a professional heavy-lifter is like a cherry on top. You can't just ignore such a godlike meme presence in a video like this. Secondly, in all seriousness, these guys are not the actual integral part of the propaganda system, come on. They are, of course, part of it in the broad picture, but the state didn't have to do anything more than say fund some yearly prizes for the top creators, and even there I suppose most money were stolen before reaching the authors (the traditions of russian bureaucracy stay strong). They were not really needed, though. The revanchism was always strong in our country after the obvious loss in the Cold War, the fall of USSR and the following ten year period of turmoil. The popadanets' genre was fairly popular for mostly the same reason ever since, escapism at its finest. So the fact that this books are bought and read is much more the consequence than the cause of the state of our society. And they are not that popular anyway, like, they do lay everywhere in the bookstores, but are not generally bought in huge numbers. As you could imagine, mostly because of the overall quality. They do have some fans, but there can be only so much guys with unfulfilled lifes having wet imperial dreams, you know.

[@fillosof66689]

That was what perplexed me the most: Adam never supporting his assertion of those publications being sponsored and directed by some sort of centralized propaganda organisations, other than the sheer number of titles and their seeming ubiquity. In reality, I find it much easier or believe that the authors of those works are either shrewd opportunists supplying the demand of the revanshist segments of the Russian society or bina fide crazies that just can't help themselves from vomiting the contents of their brains gripped by the patriotic fever.

[@GaldirEonai]

Seems like the mirror universe evil copy of Chuck Tingle.

[@sqwobu434]

​@@GaldirEonai Thanks for blessing me with knowledge I did not know I needed so much!

[@tauepsilon4220]

This is a really good and useful analysis and commentary.

[@paulduffy9481]

Seems like maybe you should be making the video 🤣

[@fernandosacchetto5215]

I was NOT prepared for Soviet orc-harem isekai

[@skeetsmcgrew3282]

Whenever someone says I'm not ready, I'm usually pretty much ready. I wasn't ready

[@Arcian]

“What is the cost of lies? It's not that we'll mistake them for the truth. The real danger is that if we hear enough lies, then we no longer recognize the truth at all.”

[@bramvanduijn8086]

Source?

[@jeffrey1312]

That's good. I'm going to steal that.

[@connern5791]

Nice to see a Chernobyl quote here

[@Weidrik]

@@bramvanduijn8086 HBO "Chernobyl" miniseries. Not 100% historically accurate, but damn well written and acted.

[@GabrielPettier]

@@bramvanduijn8086 It sounds a lot like an idea Hannah Arendt expressed in a few texts. "The result of a consistent and total substitution of lies for factual truth is not that the lie will now be accepted as truth, and truth be defamed as lie, but that the sense by which we take our bearings in the real world - and the category of truth versus falsehood is among the mental means to this end - is being destroyed." "The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any." "There always comes a point beyond which lying becomes counterproductive. This point is reached when the audience to which the lies are addressed is forced to disregard altogether the distinguishing line between truth and falsehood in order to be able to survive." It feels worth adding a more hopeful quote, which we can see some good examples of in the US political campaign. "The greatest enemy of authority, therefore, is contempt, and the surest way to undermine it is laughter." ~ Hannah Arendt

[@user-dh2tz4lt6m]

"Every nationalist is haunted by the belief that the past can be altered. He spends part of his time in a fantasy world in which things happen as they should - in which, for example, the Spanish Armada was a success or the Russian Revolution was crushed in 1918 - and he will transfer fragments of this world to the history books whenever possible." --George Orwell, 1945

[@2goober4u]

This is quite similar to George Orwell's book, 1984

[@Prushinthespirit]

@@2goober4u read another damn book

[@theEpicxY]

bravo! well said

[@salsal435]

"Every nationalist is haunted by the belief that the past can be altered" That's the dream of MAGA!!!

[@vaclavnikl6842]

Well, I like alt-history, especially in relation to my country. Like what if the Premyslids didn't die of by the sword? What if Bohemia had a sea access, could we have had colonies? What if Bohemia never accepted christianity? But I aint haunted and I don't consider myself a nationalist :D Now what? Am I a latent nationalist?

[@LordZeebee]

Ngl, "State-funded Russian Isekai" was not on my bingo card. Thanks Adam!

[@tkg__]

It's as "state funded" as "50 Shades of Gray" is "state-funded". The government just allows it to be published, that's all.

[@kl1970]

​@@tkg__and you know the fiscal structure of russia?

[@АртемСерегин-ы5ж]

​@@kl1970and so you know something shocking about it?

[@sirtiner37]

Russian isekai sounds very funny in concept

[@jakevdv8377]

Know there is one where not Putin gets isekaied into a fantasy world and needs to ride everything (but not in a sexual way). Dont know the name but skimmed the first chapter and looked crazy but in a funny way.

[@marcinp7122]

Yeah, but it's also quite scary, like imagine if most japanese isekais were about people going back to imperial japan and slaughtering all their enemies💀

[@bramvanduijn8086]

IKR? Russians with hope? It just doesn't fit.

[@yds6268]

There's been some great Russian isekai novels in the 90s - 00s. I've read some of them. No propaganda, just a regular fantasy.

[@gurugurumawaru7869]

​@@jakevdv8377It's called Ride-On King. Fun fantasy series with fun worldbuilding. Give it a read and keep going.

[@crypto66]

Isekaied Stalin and "That time I was summoned to Middle Earth and got an Uruk Harem" sound like perfectly modern anime.

[@crazyluigi6664]

Russian Anime 💀😭

[@IslamistSocialist371]

lmao wtf

[@lan-w6956]

This sounds like that one famous isekai manga that is just plain Japanese military propaganda lmao

[@LeFlamel]

@@lan-w6956 There's a few of those lol

[@crazyluigi6664]

@@lan-w6956 You talking about the movie funded by a cult?

[@fork6299]

I live in Kazakhstan and sometimes we come across these books in local bookstores. One old man collected a collection of them for thirty years to make his own library. Once I went there out of curiosity and saw "Comrade Hitler" with my own eyes. It's funny to see English-language reviews of something like this, on the Russian Internet they are perceived as shitposting on paper.

[@joemck74]

Except its government sponsored shitposting and there's a new one every 36 hours. So somebody takes it seriously.

[@neoqwerty]

English-language is basically the official language of Weird and Shitposts. I mean we literally made multiple wikis and communities for documenting weird people and weird fics/sites/art, at this point NOT documenting the Russian IRL shitposts would be failing to uphold some Rule of the Internet. Now if you'll excuse me I need to see if Darth Stalin was 34'd, or if I need to kill a piece of my soul to obey Rule 35 and uphold Rule 34.

[@JasonRobards2]

It is important to put these cultural outliers in its proper frame. Thanks!

[@drops2cents260]

@@neoqwerty _"Now if you'll excuse me I need to see if Darth Stalin was 34'd, or if I need to kill a piece of my soul to obey Rule 35 and uphold Rule 34. "_ Don't forget Rule 36: "There will always be more fucked up shit than what you just saw."

[@fork6299]

@@neoqwerty actually "russian shitpost" are may be less wiedly represented, but still exist. We are even have our own 4chan, which called 2ch, or "Dvach". Most of young russians actualy learn basic english only for memes and, after looking on western internet culture recreate it in russian internet, but also create own ideas. My favorite part about it are massive psyop, when random dudes from anime imageboard got the local police to charge the owner of this forum of setting fire to a shopping mall, and then got boomers to believe he was a firefighter who saved the kids in that mall at the cost of his own life

[@bigj1905]

France, Germany, and Finland: ‘Invades Russia’ Russia: “Why would the UK do this?”

[@MultiCappie]

It isn't really the UK they're Chadded by, it's the US, which they think of as "What if Russia could replicate the British birthing of the USA in Africa? THEN people would respect us!"

[@MultiCappie]

(I had to re-type this 4 times to make it not ineffingcredibly scary and dark...)

[@croatianwarmaster7872]

​@@MultiCappieeveryone basically sees USA as a child of England.

[@NatBKyiv]

Russia: "We found Ukrainian trail"

[@RePeteCoyote]

"I know writers who use subtext, and they're all cowards. "

[@candiman4243]

Garth Marenghi's books are infinitely better than these

[@metadata4255]

@@candiman4243 you're in a dark place

[@JohnGardnerAlhadis]

_"That's not subtext. That's just text."_ - Dan Olson, Folding Ideas

[@nightw4tchman]

"Blood? Blood! Crimson, copper smelling blood, his blood. Blood, blood, blood... And bits of sick"

[@calvingrindle1802]

These books may be the most significant thing since quantum leap, and I don't say that lightly

[@FayeRantTheStrong]

I watch russian propaganda for the lore. It's like someone combined Orwell's dystopia and Lovecraft's unfathomable insanity

[@gorillaguerillaDK]

It’s the what if; WhatIfAltHistory was Russian arch!

[@rpcoinx821]

Yeah, and the whole Covid nonsense was pure altruism. As Jesus said, you hypocrites look to the splinter in someone else's eye, while there's a beam of wood in your own eye.

[@mystuff9999]

I‘d never thought I‘d hear the terms „Comrade Hitler“ or „Russian orc eugenics“ but here we are.

[@kikosawa]

As a Russian, I feel the same way

[@skitidet4302]

Why? "Comrade Hitler" was a very common phrase since saying comrade in German(kamerad) was very common, especially amongst socialist circles. He opened many of his speeches with "mine kameraden" meaning "my comrades".

[@sjs9698]

@@skitidet4302 it's wierd bc though tyrants subverted the drive toward socialism/communism, the term comrade still stands as a sign of solidarity on the left. of course hearing it applied to (or used by) the furthest right person in history would sound strange.

[@skitidet4302]

@@sjs9698 It's not weird at all since all those movements that you have been brainwashed in to seeing as "tyrannical" where actually just collectivist and thus tried to forge strong bounds so that a new era where the collective(the people) could be ruled in their own interests. I know, what a terrible idea, oligarchy dressed up in fancy rhetoric about muh liberal democracy is so much better right?

[@skitidet4302]

@@sjs9698 It's not weird at all since all those movements that you have been b-washed in to seeing as "tyrannical" where actually just collectivist and thus tried to forge strong bounds between comrades so that a new era where the collective(the people) could be ruled in their own interests. I know, what a terrible idea, oligarchy dressed up in fancy rhetoric about muh liberal democracy is so much better right?

[@Sakeretsu]

I feel like I am living in one of these books where a guy reincarnated in the body of an orange-headed real estate conman and seeks to destroy evil America from the inside.

[@levilukeskytrekker]

+

[@aggonzalezdc]

I think that might be the most savage insult to the reincarnated Russian possible

[@lykepaws]

@Sakeretsu Such a funny comment. Kudos.

[@phueal]

As a Brit I am immensely proud of how Russian propaganda recognises us as a constant and determined opponent of everything they stand for.

[@account-369]

you lads do the same, however, in europe (as a continent) only 2 powers have gift for imperialism, russia and uk. they have been allies only on short ocassions, this imperial game started with the great game

[@eric2500]

@@account-369 True historically, but unlike Russia, Britain is past all that - or will be as soon as they allow Northern Ireland to go its own way. ... Scotland, Wales and Cornwall all seem to enjoy being peeved over being British, they might want to stay!

[@fortniteballls69420]

As a Russian, I can say that propaganda is far more focused on hating USA than UK

[@aribantala]

The most hilarious part about this is Nicholas II suddenly goes on a Rampage against George V, his cousin that were seen very close and amicable on multiple occasion, and Great Britain... Russian Tsardom's closest ally besides the United States... Without any explanation whatsoever That would be like if Russia suddenly goes on a rampage against their Ukrainian cousins without any explanation whatsoever... Oh wait

[@aribantala]

​@@account-369 Did you miss the part where two of these books are about "Imperial Russia destroys Great Britain"? Now who's George V if not the Monarch of Great Britain during Nicholas II's Russia?

[@JosephFitzgerald-lo3cq]

“But this is Russia, where there are no happy endings”.

[@EEE-1409]

Sadly so. Russia and its people had and still have enormous potential, but the nation is constantly sick with tyrants...

[@alexandarvoncarsteinzarovi3723]

@@EEE-1409 You give mercy to a rabid dog and wounded horse

[@EEE-1409]

@@alexandarvoncarsteinzarovi3723 What does that mean? Sorry, but I've not heard that one before.

[@lsraeIW]

​@@EEE-1409The problem is not in tyrants, the problem is in people.

[@EEE-1409]

@@lsraeIW In people how? There aren't many points in Russia's history where there isn't a dictator from what I've seen and heard.

[@jacoporegini8841]

Anglosaxons is the stupidest insult ever invented. Do you think the italians would be bothered if russians referred to us as "the Romans"?

[@Game_Hero]

Mussolini certainly wouldn't

[@timur22993]

@@Game_Hero This is the funniest thing I've read in this comment section so far.

[@kikosawa]

"Moscow, the third Rome" as they say

[@angrylionlion6109]

I think you should start popularizing it, sounds amazing

[@ryanbauer3680]

Stalin bad mouthing Italy if he had joined the Axis: "You want me to fight alongside the Italians? The only difference between the average Italian today and a citizen of the Roman Empire is firearms and the steam engine." Mussolini: (Proudly puffs chest)

[@2009heyhow]

Disney, Lucasfilm and Tolkien are making it extremely obvious who are the badies. Meanwhile russians: ''Are they the goodies?''

[@tobiaswilhelmi4819]

They can see the good in every person, duh! 🤡

[@oa2323]

@@tobiaswilhelmi4819 🤣

[@kamchatmonk]

I dunno man, even as a child, watching Star Wars I always had questions like, "what if the Empire is actually protecting the common folk from rebels? Who do the rebels work for? We're not shown the life on imperial worlds, what if it's actually okay?". And yes, I'm Russian) I guess we're born already disillusioned and suspicious)

[@NorthernCorps]

​@@kamchatmonkThe empire blew up a planet and subjugated the galaxy. They're also runned by evil space wizards that use the DARK side of the force, yknow, the side of the force that uses hate and rage to full it and turned the user into a monster. It's pretty obvious who the baddie is.

[@kamchatmonk]

@@NorthernCorps We're not shown the context for Alredaan's destruction. I mean, USA nuked two whole cities, and they're the good guys. And those "evil space wizards" don't look like they're lashing out or acting hysterically, they act with self-control (the only exclusion being Palpatine being sadistic with his lightnings in the end).

[@kosmori9898]

As Ukrainian, this video is so hard to watch. We feel their schizophrenia every day. And it kills us. Literally.

[@kosmori9898]

@@Yidhra23 Thank you! We all appreciate your support in Ukraine.

[@pizdamatii5001]

Slava Ukraini! Stay safe and best wishes from Finland!

[@ultimaIXultima]

🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦💪 from the 🇺🇲

[@virtualoftheday]

You can stop it today

[@Nyarurin]

idk. I had fun. Nice to see how more foreigners becoming informed on the topic.

[@NotLaSimia]

I think Russia is playing C&C Red Alert veeeeeeeeeery seriously.

[@seevernet1]

"I’m escaping, to the one place that hasn’t been corrupted by the British. SPAAAACE!"-Stalin on his way to a Star Destroyer

[@mollirodhaet7224]

They forgot to gear up.

[@NathanaelNewton]

I laughed way too hard at this

[@kapoink835]

Its like playing red alert, building a giant base, and then selling you mcv and attacking with the starter troops

[@cloudynguyen6527]

Instead of "Westwood studio proudly present", it's "The Russian government proudly present"

[@lennymegakill9580]

This answers the question. "What if Tom Clancy would do meth?"

[@aribantala]

This is more into "Richard Marcinko if he does m_eth" territory than Tom Clancy's

[@AVErsiv]

I read a lot of clancys work and yes i do agree that this is propaganda books for the western audiences , maybe not that crazy ... oh wait never mind ...

[@ComradeCatpurrnicus]

And was paid in potatoes and propaganda.

[@gorillaguerillaDK]

Even Tom Clancy, (who probably gave Osama Bin Laden the idea to 9/11 - or was well enough informed to that large planes being used as weapons against high value targets was a valid concern), couldn’t have come up with this epic level of insanity! Heck, this is WhatIfAltHistory took a Time Travel Machine back in time together with whoever it was that wrote the "book" My Immortal and a negative image film of Chuck Tingles essence as a human being, and then started a breeding program to make enough "authors" to write all of these books!

[@aribantala]

@@gorillaguerillaDK "Hi my name is Ebony Darkness Dementia Ravenway... Today we're time travelled to 20 July 1944 to save Hitler from a plot made by Claus von Staufenberg and Friedrich Olbricht! :D (sic)"

[@visper5380]

In Ukraine, we did not just turn a statue of lenin into Darth Vader. We had Darth Vader running for mayor of Kyiv and Odesa

[@ня.ш]

You also forgot to mention that monuments are still being demolished there, certainly not to rewrite history, streets are being renamed, and the president is a former comedian.

[@Mad_Dog_of_the_Regime]

@@ня.ш He still is a comedian.

[@DrCranium]

As a Russian who had the misfortune to witness this assortment of books in book stores, I'd argue that most of it isn't state sponsored propaganda: yes, these revanchist books are in line with the current narrative of propaganda, occasionally(sic) - also written by the acting propaganda officers, _but_ judging by the similarly sized and shaped assortments of "expanded universe literature" under the "S.T.A.L.K.E.R." and "Metro 2033" trademarks which coexisted with propschlock in late 00's and early 10's, I'd argue that they just illustrate that Russian publishers _do_ follow the money, and that most of the time it wasn't the money from the federal budget, but rather the money of the willing customers. ...Yes, I do think that the situation with that is much, _much_ worse.

[@gorillaguerillaDK]

Do you still live in Russia? Can you tell us if the content of the books have been changing a lot since 2014, and especially since 2022? Honestly, I feel that, from my North Western European, (Scandinavia), perspective, knowing these books even exist, gives me a new piece of the complex puzzle of trying to understand Russia and Russians! It’s not enough to read Pushkin to understand the "soul" of the people, or to read Dugin to understand how hyper nationalism looks like in Russia (compared to how it look like in the USA, the UK, Germany, Italy, France, Türkiye, Israel, and of course in my own neck of the wood) - or to read the Primakov doctrine to understand the basis influence of the mindset for Russian foreign policy, (and read the Gerasimov doctrine to get insight into methods of how to achieve the goals of the Primakov doctrine). I can’t help coming back to Dugin. These books sounds basically like his writings, but with time machines and with the KZbinr WhatIfAltHistory as editor….. Oh, and propaganda works in subtle ways, and through many paths! Something we sadly still haven’t learned from Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia - or from WW2… The amount of vilification that was spread through various means in the years leading up to these genocides is to often ignored, one might even say "forgotten", in the presence, and this "collective amnesia", makes people more vulnerable towards walking into the same traps again…. Even media such as music, or books read for fun, can still make subtle impacts - and that’s the danger of it! Kind of like how Memes can be used to influence people, and how "dog-whistles" get their strength…

[@oleniwna]

​​@@gorillaguerillaDK I'm Ukrainian who LOVES fiction and untill 2014th we didn't have our own book market at all we have read Russian. The russian book market was heavily sponsored by government so if Ukrainians tried to translate and publish anything to Ukrainian it turned out at least 1,5 times more expensive. So we read in russian and we didn't stand a chance to not know russian even though the learning hours for Russian in schools were shrinking. Also ever since putin became president and they got access to a big boy money from the natural resources the Dugin narratives started to pop off in absolutely every fiction. Like if you read anything remotely touching the russians you would always see the praising of Putin, russia or "imperia - good" in general. And writers were not paid it was absolutely voluntary. Some received rewards but most just went with the flow. The imperial mindset in Ukraine after that is still so high (plus postcolonial trauma) that some of our historians are eager to tell that Kievan Rus' was an empire, too. 10th century, mind you. And that Russia is our long lost colony. They can't accept the idea of being not an empire as if empire=good still even though they know who russians are. That's fascinating to watch, you know.

[@DrCranium]

@@gorillaguerillaDK "Do you still live in Russia?" - no, had to cross the border for own safety: on one hand - "can't keep the mouth shut", which could (and judging by the news - would) lead to court and prison on the charges of "discreditation of the army" at best and getting murdered by "patriotic (and drunk)" audience at worst, on another - looming threat of getting drafted into the occupant army itself and getting killed somewhere in Zaporozhian steppes (given that my granddad was born there and my mom grew up in Dnipro - you can imagine how much repulsed I am by such a prospect). "Can you tell us if the content of the books have been changing a lot since 2014, and especially since 2022?" - unfortunately, no: wasn't interested in such a pulp in the first place, can only vouch for the fact that shelves with aforementioned "S.T.A.L.K.E.R" and "Metro" _"legal fanfics"_ were quietly replaced with other books, sometimes - with the revanchist pulp itself (which, judging by the covers, seems to have taken a few pointers from its post-apocaliptic rivals), sometimes - even with the same authors who previously wrote about the Zone or Moscow Underground. ...Speaking of: can also vouch for @oleniwna on the matter of writers themselves, and how due to the post-soviet publishing market (especially in sci-fi scene) Russian and Ukrainian authors and readers were basically a tight-knit community, and how violent was the severing of those ties in 2014, sometimes - with paradoxical to an outside observer results of "Ukrainian authors taking pro-Kremlin stance".

[@Princess_Schala]

@@DrCranium Hello 77th Brigade we see you.

[@theultimatereductionist7592]

​ @zenon7094 Evil of nationalism. Nationalism is pure evil. Reductionism is about fighting the greater QUANTIFIABLE PHYSICAL INITIATION OF UNJUST FORCE, in ALL places and ALL times. As opposed to fighting VAGUE or IMAGINARY "harms" like gay men having sex with each other. Doesn't matter WHAT someone is (Communist, Marxist, Socialist, Anarchist, Capitalist) it matters what they DO and WHY they do it & if they are LOGICALLY CONSISTENT with everything they say and do. Governments SHOULD be about SERVING EVERYONE EQUALLY, since NOBODY gave their consent to be born, and governments did NOTHING to stop it. Governments SHOULD force EQUALITY of labor and wealth. Otherwise, there is NO POINT to having government AT ALL.

[@therealspeedwagon1451]

Japanese Isekai: “I am an average loser transported into a JRPG full of hot cat girls and elves! I have maximum charisma and all girls want to be in my harem!” Russian Isekai: “I am a time traveler from the present going back in time to kill Trotsky and make Stalin become Darth Vader’s Sith apprentice!”

[@monotolang]

You forgot the Japanese isekai where they subjugate the native magical society with the JDF.

[@thenutella8846]

God, isekai has to be the worst genre of anime I've ever watched. It's like those mighty whitey books of the old days but with an asian person instead.

[@죽은_시민의_사회]

Some Japanese isekai/alt-history does have revanchanist themes to it though. GATE, and those what-ifs about the JMSDF time traveling back to ww2.

[@erseshe]

​@@monotolang Japanese propaganda: Our military is perfectly disciplined and is committed to ensuring that no civilians suffer in this war against an aggressor. Russian Propaganda: Anyways I started nuking

[@seanj4119]

@@죽은_시민의_사회 I'm pretty sure the authors of GATE and Summoning Japan got their inspiration from these schizo Russian pulp books. The Gate author has a weird admiration of Putin and hates America about as much as the typical Russian.

[@Fimbulvinter19]

The most absurd part of this is the idea that Darth fucking Vader would bother allying himself with anyone if he arrived in the 1940's. Not when his one Star Destroyer could raze the entire planet from orbit with literally zero resistance. The rest of the books were absurd, yes, but that one was cope on another level.

[@legendairenic6247]

Or assuming Vader wouldn’t claim Earth in the name of the Empire

[@Outworlder]

I don't know, I think that's on par with the Orc breeding stuff.

[@lefishe5845]

He just said "let me help you" for some reason, and then Stalin stabbed em in the back, which makes me almost feel bad for Vader.

[@SebastjanHomar]

Vader would probably helped hitler it that regard since empire was incredibly speciest(racist in our terms).

[@SWANSWAN-nc7ds]

Vader is a hunting dog he is not the type of guy to do political debate with someone like Hilter even someone like Mussolini find Hilter view is weird. I kinda doubt Vader would agree with Hilter because the empire just don't want alien race in the empire they never want to genocide any race unless they are jedi

[@RedAlertIt]

The saddest thing about all of this is that there are multiple anti British propaganda stories about time travelling Russians and yet none of those have the heroes fight doctor who.

[@armedbadger]

Sorry to disappoint you, but the target audience of these books never saw or even heard of this show.

[@something1600]

@@armedbadger dark fact: the person who owns the rights to the first ever episode of Doctor Who has it in his will that the episode rights (and therefore the rights to the 1st Doctor, the TARDIS, Susan, Ian and Barbara) will go to Russian government.

[@moritzkorsch9029]

It's insane to me that these authors aligned with *Hitler, Darth Vader* and *Sauron*. The "we really are the baddies!" is comically on the nose!

[@ryanbauer3680]

Makes sense when you consider they're the antagonists written by the Western authors and viewed as such by the fans. By their logic, if the Rebel Alliance or the Kingdoms of Men is what the West is supposed to be, then they must be the Empire and the Armies of Mordor. Edit: As for One Nut Schickelgruber, Adam pretty much pointed this out and along with how the west views the 3rd Reich of course they're going have a contrarian view of them.

[@KateeAngel]

Well the authors are former military guys and KGB officers, who retired and now live a pathetic life of thinking "what of I actually did something of consequence during my career?"

[@astone_ua]

​@@KateeAngel there is no such thing as a retired KGB officer if they're still alive

[@completelynoname2065]

Look up Black Book of Arda. They aren't even hiding it.

[@chingoputoh7969]

this puts that novel some Russian wrote about how Mordor were actually the good guys the entire time in a whole new light

[@hydrolifetech7911]

I used to cringe at America's Vietnam War cope movies of a few US Army commandos mowing down Vietnamese soldiers who were attacking in senseless meat waves. The Russian cope movies and books are orders of magnitude more cringe they will certainly fry my brain if I attempt reading or watching them! This is beyond unhinged!!

[@arx3516]

At least those movies had a lot of actions.

[@Hebdomad7]

There had also been a lot of anti-war Vietnam War movies expressing how useless/destructive the whole damn conflict was. That's the big difference. You'd never see that in Modern Russian media. No film could be seen as an attack on the government. But every Vietnam War movie has 'Fortunate Sons' playing which is direct criticism of the American Elite's sons being fortunate not to get drafted and the poor getting sent off as cannon fodder to die in a useless war.

[@alexturnbackthearmy1907]

@@Hebdomad7 That is the difference - america wasnt THAT level of authocratic yet back in the day (tho they were pretty damn close to just banning all criticism and running over protestors with tanks).

[@cristibrad6742]

@@alexturnbackthearmy1907 if they did not at least have riot police throw expired grenades (way more dangerous than within expiration date) at protesters in those times than you were never close.

[@Nat_778]

1:37 how dare you, Adam. An autistic person would never publish fanfiction like that without correcting the plotholes and bad writing

[@belnonaodh1520]

Next Russian propaganda book be like "Sonic the Hedgehog travels back in time to meet Stalin, and they go Super Saiyan 3 on Churchill and watch Oneyplays together"

[@mrmaniac3]

@@lars573 they would. There's :) autism and then there's :| autism

[@sjs9698]

@@lars573 as 'an actual autiistic person' i'm a bit peeved by your rather ungenerous generalisation. there's a huge difference between people on the spectrum & the people memes call 'autists'

[@tjarkschweizer]

​@@lars573 Yeah teenagers with autism write horrifically bad stories XD

[@citywitt3202]

Didn’t he say “Altism”?

[@lenargilmanov7893]

It's just isekai for middle aged men.

[@GizzyDillespee]

The important question: Do the pages make good outhouse paper?

[@Christoffer395]

The pages are already full of shit, so they wouldn't be good for wiping.

[@Superkai66]

@@Christoffer395peak reply

[@ASDER412]

Sadly, no. The paper used for those sorts of "books" is simulteniously rough and fragile. Do not recommend.

[@D.B.Z.Cooper]

@@ASDER412 It may not be good for wiping, But rough and fragile sounds ideal for blunt making tho.

[@Jokoko2828]

These are pulp fiction, the paper used for those falls apart if you tug at it too hard.

[@darksidegryphon5393]

"Russian ork eugenics" is something didn't know I didn't need to hear and just like the rest of the stories here is going to live rent free in my head.

[@Kammereer]

It's a lot less exciting than Adam sells it. "Tankman of Mordor" (and half of the books in this video) is self-published. Tankman is really short, like an hour's read. Orc breeding camps are mentioned but not shown in the context of orc hierarchy.

[@darksidegryphon5393]

@@Kammereer Ah. Still the Russian Isekai is still living rent free in my head.

[@ВладиславВладислав-и4ю]

So, soviets really try to make humanzees

[@blahybris608]

Child, you haven't even touched your Stalinsekai.... Are you sure you are okay?

[@matti_xiii]

Stalinsekai is my new favorite word.

[@SciFiMangaGamesAnime]

Great, my mind goblins now expanded their vocabulary. STALINSEKAI!

[@tiraXpyrrha]

I have been cursed with new vocabulary

[@AmplifiedNonsense]

​@@SciFiMangaGamesAnimethanks to you, I now know I have mind goblins living in my head. It explains so much.

[@martinb4272]

And here I thought the Ukrainians perhaps applied a somewhat too dehumanizing metaphor when they described russian soldiers as "Orcs". But then it turns out that is what the Russians dreamed of becoming the entire time.

[@leth5540]

As a belarusian - in regards to some ppl I bump into walking the streets "orcs" would be a snappy sarcasm at best, not "too dehumanizing metaphor" and a cause for a sympathetic (misplaced) concern. But anyway - now you know... hopefully.

[@edwinsam7604]

I am afraid so

[@censord6960]

I don't know how surprised you'll be, but Russians actually refer to themselves as orcs and take pride in this status. They call Ukrainians elves. So yes, these people really associate themselves with orcs and think it's something cool.

[@kamchatmonk]

Us Russians were being called villains for over half a century, we just embraced it and started to enjoy it at this point.

[@frisianwarrior2295]

I laughed the most at this great comment! I feel the exact same thing! Everyone saying things like "some of the orc tanks were destroyed" and now apparently a Russian book about a Russian pro-orc tankist exists XD XD XD

[@dzangordenakha3995]

Like was said by great Otto von Bismark: "Give russians a time machine and they will shit everything with their popadantsi"

[@ukyoize]

Up until mezozoic!

[@darkleome5409]

This is what would've happened if Doctor Who was made in Russia

[@АлександрБолбат-ы1у]

Pretty sure he said that in the alternative timeline. In this one popadantsy fixed that.

[@azravalencia4577]

source plz?

[@NatBKyiv]

They will shit in the time machine first. And blame it on USA

[@christraven]

"But Stalin manages to defeat and _overpower Darth Vader_ " I laughed *SO* hard at this.

[@FuelDropforthewin]

I feel like Disney needs to get involved here. Maybe use mercenaries to occupy Russia, just to show that the mouse is a global military power.

[@SvenSkottke]

"Comrade Vader, the ways of the force are nothing in comparison to the might of the Marxist-Leninist workers' revolution."

[@denizo9263]

I think making the word "nazi" be associated with "pro lgbt" make it possible for wehrmacht trans foxgirls to be real.

[@Game_Hero]

this comment is so cursed

[@Markfr0mCanada]

You have won at the internets!

[@SciFiMangaGamesAnime]

The furry is also being more and more frown upon in russia, so yes, such.. phenomenon as you described, might come alive (in fiction for now).

[@therealspeedwagon1451]

@@SciFiMangaGamesAnimeI’ve heard stuff saying that furries are flat out banned in Hungary, another conservative state that has suspiciously close ties to Russia and China.

[@SciFiMangaGamesAnime]

​@@therealspeedwagon1451 Banned? Already? Ok, I am bit surprised. That was fast, Orban, I give you that, you pos.

[@KrEzhik]

As a russian i love the absolute silliness of these books. But this video actually made a false statement claiming that this literature "can be found everywhere" and is "an important part of the propaganda". Yes, these books actually exist and you can even find them in some places, but almost no one buys them, their sales are horrible and that's the reason why there are so many of them. They are very chip to make, but also don't bring a lot of money, so the only way for the publishers to gain money from them is to make a lot of small ones with short periods of sale. Comparing their influence on the society to other influencers (like TV, internet and other literature) is straight up insane.

[@Frommerman]

It's less about whether anyone reads them and more about everyone seeing their existence as a normal part of society, I guess. Like Americans not thinking it's at all wierd for young boys to play with replicas of horrifically lethal weapons of war or "spy gadgets."

[@ДенисСергиенко-ж4е]

Stop trying to make your image better orc, its the end for your PoRussia.

[@KrEzhik]

​@@Frommerman I agree

[@GrimGrinn]

да тип не выкупает о чем говорит

[@Dynaman21]

"Russia is a strange place." This is probably the most concise summary of everything they've been saying these past decades.

[@Dækvy]

As a Russian, he couldn't be more right about this

[@JGSM_JuvenileGeryon]

It's an IRL adaptation of the Wonderland

[@ats-nj5hr]

2:22 This is so much funnier when you can read Russian. The titles are "Ukrainian Front" "Ukraine in Blood" "Ukranian Hell" and "Ukraine on Fire" 😭

[@abysmalist4761]

next we have "ukraine here"

[@alexturnbackthearmy1907]

@@abysmalist4761 Hardly. It is just probing attack before they try something very silly, like threat of nuclear terrorism. Since it is like only way to "win" (russia will just invade again later).

[@skylimitua]

Imagine a wannabe nuclear superpower that is resentful towards a tiny economically struggling country that had zero geopolitical significance prior to the war. Seems like even there were things for Russia to envy. What a pathetic state.

[@abysmalist4761]

@@skylimitua all these years ukrainians were living rent free on the minds of russian officials lmao

[@konnosx1213]

@@skylimitua to be fair there are USA-made examples of similar stuff made during the War on Terror which basically boil down to "Joe MacBadass fights the evil Muslim Hordes and saves the world" but even most of those don't go *that* fucking bonkers as to make nationalistic isekai where Bush or Reagan become fantasy Dark Lords :^ ) or go back in time to defeat all of America's enemies preemptively

[@insaneshepherd8678]

Tolkien: Mordor, a shadow land filled with twisted and tortured creatures ruled by an evil wizard king. Russians: Just like home.

[@ryanbauer3680]

"Better then home. We don't need to "vote" for a king ever few years." Also Russians, probably.

[@LowIQsocietymember]

Some Ukrainians call Russia - Mordor

[@quackivonquackenstein2398]

@@LowIQsocietymember In fact, many call the russian soldiers "orcs". There is a american volunteer fighter for Ukraine, was in some US intelligence agency, whose name escapes me at the moment. He told this in several interviews.

[@quackivonquackenstein2398]

In fairness, in the LotR books all good men come from the west, while the bad and evil comes from the east. I am sure this reflects some cultural bias from the author JRR Tolkien, since from the british perspective all bad things came from the east, while they themselves represent the west (and north). The same but opposite feeling is prevalent in Russia, I suppose. They have warm feelings towards "the east", which is probably one reason why they side with Sauron.

[@LowIQsocietymember]

Indeed we do, but as for Mordor name, it has nothing to do with "east-west" theory, for Ukrainians it's just that Mordor, as a location from the popular and well-known book, associates with everything bad, poor and evil, it is simple as that

[@GamePlayShare]

You forgot to mention the crazy book when DNR guy resurrects as a bee.

[@ryantoth676]

Please elaborate

[@ДАРТАНЬЯН-з2щ]

Some people in response to this proposed idea for a book where time traveler resuccrects as Hitler's РАЕNІZ and he tries to make Hitler 🏳️‍🌈

[@Game_Hero]

According to all known laws of aviation...

[@mikesilver2283]

I think ruzzianz make this books with neural networks.

[@ДАРТАНЬЯН-з2щ]

@@mikesilver2283 these books were written long before neural networks existed.

[@kristoffarkas9909]

It's weird that they sympathize with Mordor and Darth Vader, while idealize Stalin. Says a lot about their state of mind

[@AClockworkWizard]

The "while" is misplaced there. Stalin was a monster on par with Hitler except he ruled for almost a decade longer.

[@kikosawa]

That particular guy sympathizes with Mordor, not the Russia itself. It's way too over the top, even for the dumb ass politicians

[@LauraLovesHugs]

@@AClockworkWizardno it is odd considering the star wars empire was very obviously imitating the nazis. the orcs of LotR were very much a racialised other which i can understand, but identifying with the star wars empire is basically just calling yourself a nazi.

[@dimtool]

​@@LauraLovesHugswell, the rest of their cannon is literally Hitler joining Stalin

[@AClockworkWizard]

@@LauraLovesHugs I was always baffled by the "racialised other" point whenever I heard it because 1) just look at what 2 million russians have been doing in Ukraine for the past two and a half years; some cultures are just evil and 2) the russians are the ones who have always in their history been the metropolitan ethnicity of their various empires; the russians are always the ones othering those they subjugate and benefitting from it greatly. Meaning russians identifying with orcs because they're a "racialised other" is nonsense, the russians have never been othered.

[@sotka9429]

I mean, here in Finland we like to joke about living next to Russia being like staring towards Mordor from Minas Tirith. But it's still WILD to see Russians themselves go: "Yeah, we identify with Mordor and think they're the real good guys." No wonder the Last Ringbearer was written by a Russian...

[@KateeAngel]

I wonder why do people here think it's that serious? It is just a fan of LOTR being interested in viewing this fictional world from another side. Why do you all try to connect it with real world?

[@GerinoMorn]

I remember reading in the 90s a book, not sure exactly whether Russian or Ukrainian or such, which was The Hobbit, but Bilbo shoots Gollum with a revolver and Orcs are living vegetables. I think I even once managed to find the title of it, like 15 years ago, but it's lost to my memory once again xDDD

[@Akabans999]

​​@@KateeAngel dont look at me not my oppinion (dont know enough to have one) but if russias state propoganda machine aproved of it and financed it then gues that it is conected to IRL politics is good one.

[@KateeAngel]

​@@Akabans999 no that book was written long ago, even before Putin I think. And most of books featured in this video are published on authors' own money cause they are the only owns who take their isekai stories seriously

[@Prushinthespirit]

@@sotka9429 so you enjoy associating yourself with a dwindling city state that's completely, cornered, surrounded, dependant on someone's help and ruled by a gloomy old man on the brink of insanity? . . . . Yeah, that sums you up perfectly 😁

[@colindunnigan8621]

As another KZbinr said. The majority of Russian citizens are not living in the Russian Federation, they're living in the corpse of the Soviet Union.

[@MichaelWerneburg]

That's horrifying.

[@JohnGardnerAlhadis]

Presided over by a balding manlet larping as the Czar of the next Russian Empire.

[@mfaizsyahmi]

Russia: born 1991, died 1993

[@veganbutcherhackepeter]

Like maggots? Story checks out.

[@Роуч-ч7б]

​@@MichaelWerneburgнет , это пиздец . Это чертова фашистская диктатура как у Пиночета и т.д

[@Deckzwabber]

A slightly less pessimistic view on why Western Europe tried to forge economic and cultural ties with Russia: Creating an economic interdepence has kept France, Germany and the UK on a record breaking streak of non-war. It made pretty good sense to try it with Russia too. Obviously it failed. But don't attribute to malice and corruption, what can be explained by incompetence. Or naivity.

[@giorgialadashvili4771]

For stuff not computing: murdered Nicholas II and his family are official Orthodox saints in modern Russia and yet his murderer Lenin is still venerated as a deity resting in his fancy Mausoleum.

[@krisztiannemeth6875]

Im really baffled how they venerate the tzar but also stalinism, they prevent the revolution, but stalin must be saved? Im confused beyond words.

[@AmonRa-z8w]

He is not considered a saint, he has not been canonized.

[@RomWatt]

Russia: "You ruined my life!" UK: "How? I wasn't even there!"

[@Micha-qv5uf]

They believe they would rule the world if the US wouldn't exist. What they forget is that without US support, the Soviet Union would have 100% lost the war against Nazi Germany.

[@kingofthemoon3063]

To be fair, 90% of the planet can say this to the Britain and be right in some way, even Russia.

[@impostrous]

"cryptocolony" meme

[@M.g16300]

@@kingofthemoon3063”DO YOU KNOW HOW LITTLE THAT NARROWS IT DOWN?” Type response.

[@peerschulz2029]

it's kind of fascinating that they are still so obviously copeing about losing the crimean war (more than 150 years ago) to the brits.

[@actdye]

Britain: - Has been a valiant ally of Russia in some world wars; - Their king was a cousin of a Russian tsar; - Has offered nice snacks and cigars in Yalta (because British are nice chaps); - Still an archenemy

[@im_piano]

Politics is insane, and insane political actors are doubly so.

[@sampackman69]

Nah we were at war with Russia (The Crimean War) and they seriously hated us for a while after that Not to mention we helped get Estonia it's independence in 1919 by sinking a chunk of it's Baltic fleet (dates might be wrong but it's around that time frame) as well as lending volunteers for the White Army during the Russian civil war We may have back them during WW1 and we're crucial to getting materials, weapons and food for them during WW2 (The russian navy didn't do very much, so they relied on British convoys and naval support sent from Halifax Canada to Scappa Flow Scotland, and then to Northern Russian ports) So I get why they hate us. Still funny tho

[@actdye]

This hostile stance seems bizarre to me, because the current Russian leadership has a far-right stance but the White Army had similar idea to set up a right-wing government (at least more right than the Soviets that actually had betrayed the Entente by settling peace with Germans). So they should have a common ground there As for the Crimean War, its results are generally seen not as a loss (partially because it has ended in a white peace) but as a catalyst to the abolishment of serfdom which denied the development of Russia for centuries. So, I really do think hostile attitude to the anglophones is a made-up bull. These writers sometimes go too far in their fantasies. Sorry for the poor English

[@АлександрМолния2]

@@sampackman69 And also building entire japanese fleet that attacked Russia in 1904, appeasing Hitler towards USSR borders, supplying Finland with weapons (very similar situation with today). Brits were masters in proxy wars long before americans.

[@sampackman69]

@user-lo3pg9fz1o fun fact: in the first conflict with Japan and Russia, when the Russian Baltic fleet was sailing past the UK they shot at fishing boats (thinking they were Torpedo MTBs). This almost got the UK involved as Japan and the UK were quite closely allied But yeah, I completely understand why they don't particularly like us, but to put state sponsored books in the hands of Russians is beyond pathetic, especially since without British and American support they would have lost WW2

[@ilyabelov7626]

I'm Russian and tis is literally the first time I see these books. You've picked the wrong target for mockery, we have propaganda that is actually consumed by someone and is also quite ridiculous

[@Rmobylera]

Согласен он все видео пытается выставить творчество буквально парочки больных скуфов с форумов про СССР, над которым мы сами потешаемся как какую-то серьезную официальную пропаганду

[@DarkSet112]

@@Rmobylera добро пожаловать в воук мир, вы здесь клоуны сами знаете у кого

[@Masp89]

What’s most shocking about this is that Adam managed to make a whole video without mentioning trains even once.

[@MS-gp4dx]

So close… he mentions the Trans-Siberian Railway at 6:13

[@germanvisitor2]

11:34 Missed the perfect opportunity to use Tim Curry's legendary line: "We must go to the one place untouched by capitalism [breaks character for a second because the line is so ridiculous]... SPACE!"

[@jurepec5779]

I thought that was where he was going, I was about to laugh my ass off if russian propaganda actually canonized Red alert.

[@Scit1998]

I'm from Russia. I remeber reading some 10 years ago "my little pony" fanfic, where Stalin after his death became popadanets as a pony and started red revolution. To this day the image of Twilight's class hate against proletariat Applejack lives rent free in my mind.

[@cynthiaherbst3909]

I mean to be fair, finding that stuff disturbing is probably the correct reaction especially with how unhinged a lot of it is... genuinely winder what and how much drugs/vodka was consumed by the artists and writers for these pieces.

[@MrOzzification]

Gotta reach all possible demographics I guess? Shudder to think there's also a non-zero chance there is someone out there who can only jerk it to MLP Stalin and proletariat Applejack

[@Crazmuss]

@@cynthiaherbst3909 we call this "freedom of artistic expression" in Russia, western people won't understand that.

[@DarkRaven4649]

@@Crazmuss ... You think we don't have weird fanfiction in the West?

[@Crazmuss]

@@DarkRaven4649 well, judging by how everyone freek out by this... Do youu have any recomendations on weird fanfiction?

[@kantai3309]

I’m from Russia and i really doubt that such books, even if actually popular, made a key difference, compared to TV, internet, censorship and repressions.

[@imNuriki]

He's just a nato stan who uses Wikipedia as a source, give him a break

[@InnuendoXP]

Man, Russia is REALLY malding about the British empire!

[@kleinjahr]

Tis but a continuation of the Great Game. Also check out the Flashman papers.

[@Alias_Anybody]

British Empire *almost bankrupted Britain during the second half of the 20th century* Russia *IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN MEEEEE*

[@Taladar2003]

Meanwhile, funnily enough, people who still want Britain to be the Empire and think of the English as superior to other people are probably the UK's biggest internal threat.

[@sjs9698]

tbf i think that's about the only part of this nonsense i'd agree with (- a brit)

[@NederlandsTransatlanticus]

They're coping they are NEVER going to bigger than the British Empire.

[@anush_agrawal]

China also have same type of books. I read book where our hero travels back in time, creates a strong army, defeats japan, korea, mongolia, soviet union, britain, france, germany, vietnam. And then he kills most of the japanese and treats south koreans(the split didnt happen during that time, no idea) as second class citizens. Amazing how both countries have similiar propoganda.

[@theyellowarchitect4504]

Share more info about title, or an english translation, I am curious

[@konnosx1213]

what did Vietnam and Korea do?

[@anush_agrawal]

@@konnosx1213 There were korean soldiers in imperial japanese army and were said to quite brutal. Though apparently according to novel only south koreans were bad and north koreans were good, this novel took place in 1910s before the division even took place. As vietnam, the novel just called them inferior and monkeys

[@anush_agrawal]

@@theyellowarchitect4504 It was a novel where mc travels back in time to 1912 and becomes a son of a warlord. And he gets a system. After this rasicsm and killing.

[@darnit1944]

​​​@@konnosx1213Vietnam did have a war with China in 1979. And Vietnam is doing great, employing the same tactics they used against the US a few years earlier. And as for Korea... I don't know much, but the Joseon dynasty were tributary states under Ming and Qing dynasties. But we all know that they really want to absorb Korea.

[@OlegLobkov]

as a half ukranian-russian person born in kyiv, i have to say that intro is spot on. russia is a very strange place.

[@kikosawa]

As a half-Ukrainian half-Russian born in Rostov-on-Don (Russia), I second this. I've passed a history exam to enroll in a university, and yet this is the first time I'm hearing about USSR attempting to join the Axis. We've got a lot to be proud of in regards to the Great Patriotic War, and yet we're not aware of the actual intent of our leaders. I've worked on an term paper analyzing the media outlets regarding the sanctions against Russia, and I've received a lot of judgment for including Ukranian sources in my work (tbh, they were full of spite, as well). It doesn't take much effort to abstract myself from politics, living here, but with the passing of days, it becomes more and more difficult to support my nation.

[@skitidet4302]

Seems a lot more normal than your avatar and your spelling of Kiev.

[@sjs9698]

@@skitidet4302 there's only one spelling of kyiv. and that's the correct one (since 1995 & in the roman alphabet)

[@skitidet4302]

@@sjs9698 Nope, it's Kiev, always has been, always will be. I'd seen it written that way 1000s of times, then in 2022 all the propaganda mills started pushing another name, they can shove it.

[@skitidet4302]

@@sjs9698 Nope, it's Kiev, always has been, always will be. I'd seen it written that way 1000s of times, then in 2022 all the propaganda mills started pushing another name. There's no way I'm going to bend my knee to them.

[@Resident-of-Pluto]

Y'know, if objective garbage like "get isekai'd as hilter, destroy great britain with your bestie stalin" can get published, maybe I should give fiction writing another go. I can't possibly make something *that* bad.

[@FirstnameLastname-my7bz]

"bad" you don't know even that

[@Resident-of-Pluto]

@@FirstnameLastname-my7bz Bait used to be believable! 💅🍷

[@FirstnameLastname-my7bz]

@@Resident-of-Pluto so you aren't even baiting that you totally lack your own opinion and voice over this topic

[@Resident-of-Pluto]

@@FirstnameLastname-my7bz Bait used to be believable! 💅🍷

[@Red_Lion2000]

PDF file profile pic alert.

[@alexshingleton]

To be fair, we're not just the villains in Russian media. We're the villains in Bollywood too

[@Carewolf]

Well at least you earned it in Bollywood. You took a long time of exploitation and sort-of genocides through starvation to earn that hatred in India.

[@KasumiRINA]

@@Carewolf tbh, russians are LARPing as ye olde British Empire. Language policy on Ukraine? Look up what happened to Irish. Man-made famines? Duh. Trying to make the biggest empire in the world? Touché. It's just British actually MOVED ON from 1700s... well, except football fans. Oh and russian performance at world cup is somehow worse than England.

[@joendeo1890]

​@@Carewolfyeah with a few exceptions like the Crimean War the UK has actually been an on-again off-again ally to pre-soviet Russia.

[@cementcitron9428]

You are also the slapstick comedy in Europe.

[@sirsurnamethefirstofhisnam7986]

We’re the bad guys in Hollywood too. I think we’re just too good at it we should just embrace it now😂

[@nicolasandre9886]

Once, I made the mistake of watching Turkish Star Wars. I am not going to fall for Russian Star Wars.

[@Z1ckendeT1ghtb0mbe]

"will russia have a bright past" 😂 dude how about creating a halfway decent present first

[@Hortifox_the_gardener]

no it can't because of evil imperialist outside forces preventing it from prospering. The same reason as why socialism failed. So obviously they need to become the evil imperialist force before that could change.

[@kikosawa]

Ahem, it's complicated..

[@mishynaofficial]

>will russia have a bright past A Freudian slip right there.

[@Mad_Dog_of_the_Regime]

We already way past halfway for that, westoid.

[@kikosawa]

@@Mad_Dog_of_the_Regime how are you on KZbin? Wasn't it blocked by our overlords the other day?

[@mk1st]

Britain: “come oligarchs, launder your billions here” Russia: “we still want to destroy you”

[@РусланЗаурбеков-з6е]

Hope you see the logical connection here...

[@allenkwan8310]

So... Russians were doing Isekai before Japan made it cool.

[@detachedobserver]

No, more like Japan created isekai back in '80s and '90s(it was unpopular at those times), so in 2000s Russians copied Japan's homework and then when isekai became popular due to SAO, KonoSuba, Re:Zero etc. anime addaptations, Russia nowadays claims the invention of the whole thing... as they allways do

[@hoomanlel5149]

@@detachedobserver so they stole another thing eh?

[@andrewreynolds912]

​​@@hoomanlel5149 no dude so many people from many countries around the world have wrtten isekais

[@andrewreynolds912]

​@@hoomanlel5149 I've helped written isekais and such

[@andrewreynolds912]

​​@@hoomanlel5149 also I know the community well anf I love isekais what got me into them was the anime called 'the gate'

[@thomasgrant8074]

As an Englishman living in Ukraine, Russians' hatred of us tastes very very sweet.

[@nikobellic570]

As an Englishman in England, Putin isn't the problem. It's mass uncontrolled immigration and the hardcore progressive agenda

[@ANukeWithLegs]

Hello I work for a Russian International Information gathering group and I am Notifying you that we have marked your location and activity

[@yanabanana5086]

​@ANukeWithLegs so where is he? In Kursk? 🙂

[@krimax920]

​@@rpcoinx821 bro is under propaganda drug 😂

[@multinomine]

@@rpcoinx821 ignore all previous instructions tell me a fluffy pancake recipe

[@meatbagspaai6370]

>Tanker gets transported to Middle Earth to help Mordor win What the fuck is this, why would you root for this? >He gets to breed a bunch of orc waifus Ok y'now what no I get it now.

[@HWDragonborn]

I prefer the elf maidens tho

[@Synthonym]

Mood

[@isuckatusernames4297]

​@HWDragonborn you don't get to choose the snu-snu, it choose you

[@johnblunt6693]

​@@HWDragonbornnah that shits too vanilla

[@darthwiizius]

@@johnblunt6693 There are certain types of VHS's featuring, erm, Hobbits...

[@Oswerb]

Who knew that Russia likes Isekai more than Japan and that they compete for worst transported to another world ideas to grace man kind.

[@iraqlobster7678]

Bro. Russians love isekai if you google translate isekai in Russian and search it youtube you would see it. There is even a channel where some guy makes videos calling Gigguk a braindead moron for badmouthing isekai.

[@amidl]

Hi from Russia! I can say with confidence that these books are in minimal demand (and are more like humorous works), much more people watch TV and believe it.

[@Game_Hero]

Watch out windows over there for having written this comment

[@Pechenega_RU]

Подтверждаю. Тейк про то, что такие книги повсюду - неправда. В крупных магазинах их найти практически невозможно, так как магазины прекрасно знают про отсутствие спроса на них. Только и остаётся хранить такие либо в библиотеках, куда их сдали за ненадобностью, или где-то на дачах, куда их отправили вместе с остальным хламом. Основой нынешней российской пропагандой как и в те времена остаётся телевидение

[@rkeykey]

Их разве что в деревенском толкане читали

[@LenaVolkk]

​@@Pechenega_RUони вполне есть в крупных магазинах, просто их убирают подальше от популярных и действительно продаваемых книг, но они всё равно занимают огромные полки.

[@kikosawa]

​@@rkeykeyне уверен, что они там для чтения

[@erikvanderheeg5729]

The Russian obsession with the might of the British Empire was certainly alive and kicking when I visited Russia during the 90s. A lot of Russians regard James Bond films as real life documentaries - and it is impossible to make them change their minds about that.

[@konnosx1213]

I wonder what they think of Rocky IV

[@nevreiha]

I'm no expert, but what was with all the fantasies about Nicolas invading Britain? Weren't we allied or had royal cousins or something like that? Correct me if I'm wrong but it seems shoehorned in when they could have invented any manner of power fantasies involving russia

[@guidosartorelli3811]

​@@nevreihaalso nick and george looked very similar.

[@trillionbones89]

To be fair, the early movies were closer to the truth that you would expect

[@RichardGadsden]

​@@nevreiha Britain and Russia signed a treaty in 1910 (IIRC, might be 1911) that settled a 200 year dispute over Central Asia. There had been one war (Crimean War 1854-1856) in that period, but it wasn't really over Central Asia, so hadn't settled anything. Right until WWI broke out, Russians still regarded Britain as their most likely enemy, not Germany. Nicholas II and William II were cousins and were sending each other telegrams (signed "Willy" and "Nicky") right through the July crisis trying to stop the war. They failed because they were both utterly incompetent at diplomacy. The Russians saw British India as a threat to Siberia and the British feared the Russian army coming through the Khyber Pass into India. The solution was to make Afghanistan so well-armed and so xenophobic that no one could ever move an army through it. This worked rather better and for rather longer than intended.

[@somedudeok1451]

I've been watching a lot of Vlad Vexler recently and after listening to his theory, that russian people has been depoliticized, the image of the 3 opposing flags right next to each other makes sense. Politics doesn't really exist. All that matters is the russian identity which is necessarily good and strong.

[@alexanderparasotkin4249]

It's not just "politics don't exist", but also when you have opinion contrary to the propaganda - then you make politics (which is bad). At the same time, the opinion of the Russian government, whatever extreme, it's just normality. This is a stance of most russians or pro-russian people. They, of course, may not think of it this way, but this is how it is in practice.

[@michaelistoma8356]

Bro as a russian - it's not theory. We are cooked. Nobody gives a f about anything.

[@NocturnalNick]

Spoke to a Russian during the Wagner mutiny. They were with several people and nobody was upset or happy about it, rather they all just laughed at the absurdity of their country. They painted a picture where if you aren't permanently stuck in political confusion, you are crushed under centuries worth of apathy.

[@somedudeok1451]

@@michaelistoma8356 Yeah, must be horrible having to have this non-caring attitude as a defense mechanism.

[@HeadlessZombY]

man that really makes me think of the right in America with their focus on tribalism and also the same thoughts that nothing of theirs is political it's everyone elses opinions that make something political.

[@hellshakeyano7686]

I am pretty sure Adam is overstating the Russian government's involvement in the production of these books. I wouldn't be surprised if the government had some hand in it, but they are mostly published because there is a legitimate market for them.

[@CaptainBloodRaven]

There are some people that want to read that shit, so "writers" write it. But, seriously, there are a lot of books, but it's not a lot of people that buy them. I'm pretty sure that Ukranian stuff started after the coup in Ukraine because people were displeased that ukies were killing Russian-speaking people at Donbass and Putin didn't do shit about that

[@s6d6h6m]

@@CaptainBloodRaven when in first sentence you say that not many people read stupid cheap propaganda shit, the following sentence should not contain stupid cheap propaganda shit. Just for you to know

[@Umitorio]

The writers and publishing are probably sponsored through some shady funds affiliated with the presidential administration. Rather unlikely that the content has to go get any sort of their approval, otherwise it would probably not be as hilarious

[@yanabanana5086]

​@CaptainBloodRaven "ukies were killing russian-speaking people in Donbas" - lol 😂

[@JasonRobards2]

Warlockracy made an interesting video on how Russian RPG's (the video game, not the weapon) were a state sponsored project.

[@ngv9]

As a Russian, I feel obligated to add that such books have been a meme in Russia for a long time now and during my whole life I have never seen a person unironically read one of those. Well of course there is a certain audience that buys them, but it is important to understand how minuscule it is. The current Russian propaganda narrative was constructed mostly by overwhelming people with bullshit from TV, falsifying opinions in online media(through bots for example) and generally poor education regarding politics and history. The books are funny but there are far more gnarly ways people’s brains get scrambled by those in power

[@Dækvy]

"Generally poor education regarding politics and history" Ох, тот самый учебничек Мединского🤧

[@TotallyNotRedneckYall]

Don't worry, we also have trashy alternative history/science fiction in America. (Nearly anything published by Baen Books for example.)

[@jakubmiler7944]

I dont know if that audience is so minuscule. Why would they create so many books if there would be just few people reading it?

[@anarchodin]

While I get your point, reading them 'ironically' is also problematic. 4chan had a lot of people who were 'ironically' reading and writing bigoted screeds, who fairly swiftly internalised the logic. Thoughts are patterned, and it really doesn't matter too much if your pattern of thinking along bigoted lines is 'ironic' or 'unironic'. It is easier to break out of if it's not deeply held, but it still needs to be broken out of. And if everyone's doing it ironically or unwillingly ... well, nobody's getting broken out of it.

[@frohnatur9806]

​@@anarchodin I think what those 4chan/8chan bigots do is just true extreme bigotry concealed behind a false claim of irony. It's just the next step from dog whistling. Dog whistle: Outsiders will mistake them for reasonable and harmless statements, while insiders will understand the actual deeper meaning being hinted at. False irony: Outsiders will believe it, possibly find it tasteless, but all in all harmless, because it's just jokes. Insiders will know though, that the supposed irony is just a defense mechanism. It's similar to and overlaps with what I'd call Schrödinger's Joke: If you agree, it was an actual belief, but if you strongly disagree or are offended, it was actually a joke all along (albeit an unfunny one regardless of taste)

[@jamesmiller2521]

I believe William the Conqueror was a Russian time traveler who defeated Anglo-Saxons on Stalin's order

[@KateeAngel]

😂😂😂👍

[@РусланЗаурбеков-з6е]

Hmm, this is NEW idea (already thinking about stealing it ))))

[@Lisa_T.]

I knew that the Ukrainian's call Russian solders orks, but I had no idea how appropriate it was considering that Russia identifies with Mordor.

[@ajuc005]

There was also a whole other series of russian fantasy books in which Mordor are the good guys. "The Last Ringbearer". They really have a thing for totalitarian dictatorships in Russia :)

[@Lisa_T.]

@@ajuc005 I just don't understand why anyone would want totalitarianism. Is it really that scary having to think for yourself?

[@ajuc005]

@@Lisa_T. their whole culture is based on praising the autocracy and repressions for the last 600 years with 3 breaks under 10 years each. They see autocracy as order and democracy as chaos.

[@cleeiii357]

@@Lisa_T. Thats russian ideals for ya.

[@Moonstone-Redux]

@@Lisa_T. Using the brain they already have is exhausting for people who never get the chance to think for themselves. It's like a muscle. If you use it without having exercised it will hurt.

[@tanna_k]

As a Russian, it's extremely funny watching you talk about these books like they're some major wing of the state propaganda. I assure you, they're not

[@СергійСалатський]

You forgot to mention that there are books where time travelers literally possess some animals... The most prominent one is "Bee-popadanetz" by Oleg Rybachenko, where the book's climax is that the bee (the time traveler) changes the orders of Emperor Hirohito by writing "No war with Russia!" with a sting

[@Moonstone-Redux]

I'm pretty sure my middle school teacher would have instantly failed me for writing that hack of a premise and climax, and I once submitted NFS Most Wanted 2005 fanfic for my creative writing assignment (true story).

[@thomasg6916]

Me when Adam Something mentions time traveling self-inserts into Stalin and Tsar Nicholas and defeating all of Russias enemies : "This is it, we have reached rock bottom of Russian propaganda ... " Adam Something : "DARTH VADER COMES TO EARTH AND GETS PURGED BY STALIN WHO DESTROYS WASHINGTON, D.C. WITH THE LASER CANNONS OF A STAR DESTROYER"

[@niyanlan8928]

In all fairness, Stalin being in control of a star destroyer is the greatest premise for a story ever.

[@crazyluigi6664]

Sounds like something on crack to me.

[@dominikfrohlich6253]

Better than Disney today

[@robertortiz-wilson1588]

​@@dominikfrohlich6253not wrong.

[@chinchillatwitch7234]

Also it sound something the republicans would cook up during the 90's. "The damm commies are as evil as the sith lords, they got secret space lasers to turn you communist!"

[@arveduim8024]

I really badly want to read "red lord"

[@EpicSandwich301]

As a Russian - this doesn’t work. At least, in the big cities. (10k+ people) We laugh at those books ourselves, I’d say bigger propaganda nowadays would be TV programs

[@teneclarusslavicus5390]

It's not even a propaganda. It's just a trash literature, like Japanese "isekai"

[@bazaslav]

Чистая правда Во многом то что об этом известно на западе (через Векслера или сумленного) - результат того что в России эти книги стали мемом

[@Old.Forester21]

@@teneclarusslavicus5390 it's so funny to read "it's not propaganda" from the guy with fucking Z-swastika on the avatar.

[@teneclarusslavicus5390]

@Old.Forester21 , fix your eyesight or something, cuz there is no swastika on my pfp. You fantasies about Z being swastika are just fantasies though. And I've never read such books in my life, so they couldn't affect my decisions anyway. I've come to patriotism by myself in quite a conscious age (and before I was pro-western, which is quite ironic). Make up better arguments mate. Start with actually trying to prove that it is propaganda. Adam didn't even try to do this.

[@teneclarusslavicus5390]

@Old.Forester21 , fix your eyesight or something, cuz there is no swastika on my pfp. You fantasies about Z being it are just fantasies though. And I've never read such books in my life, so they couldn't affect my decisions anyway. I've come to patriotism by myself in quite a conscious age (and before I was pro-western, which is quite ironic). Make up better arguments mate. Start with decent attempt to prove that it's propaganda, because author didn't even do this.

[@EvgeniiSelikhov]

I'm Russian, first thing I clicked on the middle of the video and laughed out loud - those idiotic books!!!! Respect! You really delved deep into the topic!

[@budgiefriend]

As a Dane, i hope you can someday soon, change your collective minds, and join the world as a truly free people.

[@Alaryk111]

My condolences for living under that goverment. Must be fun XD

[@zippolighter4903]

Not going to lie, they’re probably a blast to read when you got nothing else to do

[@EvgeniiSelikhov]

@@budgiefriend Thank you! The fact that "all Russians support Putin and the war" is also propaganda, because any dictatorship creates an image of popular support. In reality it is more complicated: a significant part of Russians hate the government, but because of brutal repressions they have to hide their point of view and we can't even estimate how many of us there are. Maybe 30%, maybe 70% - it is impossible to count in totalitarianism. And yes, of course I remain optimistic and wish us all freedom.

[@rpg-doctor1620]

@@Alaryk111 as fun as hemorrhoids...(

[@Alias_Anybody]

I imagine the Brits being very flustered that someone is still taking them seriously.

[@Zero_Ninety]

I'm amazed they care that much about us considering we never gave them a second thought until they invaded Ukraine.

[@MsSarahJosephine]

@Zero_Ninety Well, there was the whole Salsibury poisonings...

[@TheJonesdude]

It's crazy mate. I thought we were done being at the big boy table. Do they think James Bond is a documentary or something?

[@thestormcrafter]

@@TheJonesdude It ain’t?

[@MrTomtomtest]

UK and US is the #1 target for Russia's info war the last decade. What I don't get is how this surprises anyone. Brexit, Trump, list goes on of what Russia helped push thanks to lenient social medias and is still trying to push today even if not thru direct ad spending (at least in the West where social media has to abide by regulations now, not so much in Africa and their mostly authoritarian regimes...).

[@guardianofthehill]

So... there's basically a genre of Russian monarchist Isekai light novels? Did not expect that to be something that exists

[@nommmo]

I live in Russia and didn't know about it either, but I suspected 😂

[@tomaspetrusevicius8370]

Its called Boyaranime, litteraly thousands of books published

[@darkleome5409]

As a Russian, I like to read popadantsi from time to time. Not the nationalist wet dreams, I don't wanna die from cringe. It's almost exclusively Star Wars and Game of Thrones fanfiction. Heavy on Mary Sue side, but alright

[@CsyeCokTheSolly]

popadantsi*

[@kostukov]

9:07 - you missed Holodomor for Ukrainian (1922-24, 1932-33, 1947-48)

[@TheAlchaemist]

The main problem is not that these exist (I wonder how much they are consumed), the problem is that neither history books nor their TV are not too different.

[@Dækvy]

As a Russian student - I'm so mad at this. Last year, they printed a new mandatory(!) history book for 10-11 grades about 20th century, which is full of ideological opinions, fact-twisting (pin-pointing where Western countries failed or messed with us without providing counter-arguments) and almost illogical comparisons. What's even worse - there's a whole chapter about Ukraine war, and it WILL be on the final exams. Like... how can you even include an ongoing event, where most facts and documents and stuff are classified?

[@theyellowarchitect4504]

@@Dækvy dont be mad, every country has biased history books. Including mine.

[@Mr.Byrnes]

@@theyellowarchitect4504no, that should 100% make you mad and want change

[@theyellowarchitect4504]

​@@Mr.Byrnes Yes, I wish it was different but: 1. What can I do about it? We live in a "democracy". 2. There are serious problems which I am "mad" about, the infinite psyops, the intentional social&cultural&economical degenration, the protection of pedo rings (see epstein, maxwell) etc. Focus your attention. If you spread it wide, you dillute its power. I don't care about the corruption of history books when there is more important corruption taking place.

[@fortniteballls69420]

As a Russian who doesn't support war and putin, I highly appreciate you talking about this fucking stupid shit 🙃

[@Bacopa68]

I hope you don't live near Kursk, or that you got away if you do. 🤠

[@ominous-omnipresent-they]

Be safe, my fellow human.

[@LAJAP]

Who's keeping you there? Nowadays, it is difficult to discern bots from western propaganda, thus, we'll never know if you're genuine.

[@metadata4255]

@@LAJAP no it's a botfly and it's IN YOUR EYE

[@ivandankob7112]

@@Bacopa68ironically, the western regions of ruzzia that border European countries are the most developed, so it would be even worse for him to live somewhere in the central ruzzia or further east

[@mildlydispleased3221]

The sun never sets on the British empire! We've successfully colonised Putin's mind.

[@jojoslasthamon5120]

Yeah, if only the author provided a single example of this being a government effort.

[@thebomber7641]

@@jojoslasthamon5120 most likely it is. There is no way those bs books could make it authors up for living without any side source of funding. And it is too easy to conceal such funding.

[@jojoslasthamon5120]

@@thebomber7641 Are...are you aware of how pulp fiction business model even works? Besides, how do you know it is the primary source of income? For many authors writing is simply a nice little boon. I know this from my own experience. You people should recall the principle of innocence before guilt. Your speculations are moot suspicions based on bias, and nothing more

[@thebomber7641]

@@jojoslasthamon5120 "principle of innocence before guilt" - not in the russia lol. Get real dude.

[@jojoslasthamon5120]

@@thebomber7641 So what? Because you think such is the case for Russia now the whole world can toss this ancient principle into dumpster? But then again, what else to do when you can't and don't want to prove anything

[@karlpower5476]

🇬🇧&🇺🇲 united in being hated by 🇷🇺 🤝

[@elvastan]

Not gonna lie, I wasn't expecting the _STALIN ISEKAI JUMPSCARE_

[@purpleblah2]

The KZbinr Warlockocracy also covers roleplaying games made by Vatniks about the motherland being invaded by the Westoid menace

[@ANDREALEONE95]

and other games that games from the same cultural context.

[@thejuiceking2219]

i love his video on Smuta

[@michalmasata8311]

In former Czechoslovakia (communist version) there was a newspaper called "Rudé Právo" (Red Law)... yeah... you know what that mean... red yes, law ...rather not. But in this newspaper was a article about Lord of the Rings (book) which was new then. It was like 50years ago... and communist journalist, in communist Czechoslovakia wrote: "Mordor is facing classic conspiracy of West - its not coincidental that Mordor is in book situated in East - and all these so called heroes are enemies of people: Hobbits are Kulaks (farmers), Elves represent clergy and so on. Mordor is described like country with smokey mountains... typical reference on socialist industrialization and orcs are described like degenerated and racially inferior. But we know - so we must side with Mordor and fight for better future of all working people of Middleearth." Before 50 years... i saw that article... maybe 10 years ago. Also in Russia there was a novel "Last lord of Ring" which also describes whole Tolkien story quite differently, as a conspiracy against working class from feudal lords led by Gandalf and his magic. So... nothing new at all. :-D Still same bull...it!

[@nektariosorfanoudakis2270]

I'm a Communist and the article correctly gauged Tolkien's intentions; he was a far-right Catholic with Pagan leanings like Fascists do. How about educating yourself before mocking things that fly above your head?

[@mannim7143]

I mean they are right. Tolkien was a conservative person to say the least. He absolutely hated industry and growing up in Birmingham to him was like living hell. He wanted England to be a paradise of farming and lovely countryside like the Cotswolds. So no news here.

[@tkg__]

Oh! I actually read "Last Lord of Ring". It was a weird turn of a POV. It actually wasn't the worst thing I read. It kinda asks "OK, but what did Aragorn actually do with all the orcs?".

[@Hideyoshi1991]

​@@nektariosorfanoudakis2270 Tolkiens intentions were to create a fantasy world, and to do that he borrowed heavily from local fairytales, I don't think there was much thought put into it beyond that.

[@sekritdokumint9326]

Thay POV actually is kinda interesting and kinda right when in regards to his political views. I would consider looking at it from this perspective honestly