Watching movies from the 90s is a trip because its full of casual chauvinist contempt for Ukraine and other former Soviet countries, portraying them as backwards shitholes full of criminals and sex workers. Then the switch was thrown in 2022 and These People Are Gondor, Actually. It's so hollow, all the rhetoric so cheap and timely. When we finish sucking them dry and discard them, their image will be made that of dour savages who simply hate us for our freedom.

[–] SkybreakerEngineer@lemmy.world -5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Weird, almost like something happened where the entire country decided to resist imperialism and purge corruption

[–] RiverRock@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 weeks ago

That's a weird way to say "have a bunch of nazis take over and do ethnic cleansing"