i dont even know what to say about this man

  • Frivolous_Beatnik [comrade/them, any]@hexbear.net
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    2 months ago

    not satire but this bit of anticommunist propaganda (political officer shooting deserters, one man gets rifle one gets ammo etc) from early CoD kinda goes hard

    Welcome to Stalingrad. You’re about to begin the greatest moment of your life. The Germans have lost hundreds of tanks and planes. Hitler’s brutalized hordes are now advancing towards Stalingrad over mountains of their own dead bodies. Our Bolshevik Party, our nation, our great country, have given us the task not to let the enemy reach the Volga and to defend the city of Stalingrad. Forward against the enemy!

    Up into the unremitting battle, comrades, for Stalingrad, for our great country! Not one step back! Cowards and traitors will be shot!

    Do not count days, do not count miles, count only the number of Germans you have killed. Kill the German - this is your mother’s prayer. Kill the German - this is the cry of your Russian earth. Do not waver! Do not let up! Kill! Death to the German invader!

    mfw lenin-pogger

    • SickSemper [she/her, they/them]@hexbear.net
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      2 months ago

      COD did some unironically good portrayals of communists in WaW, especially compared to every other piece of American propaganda. Yeah they eventually go “killing nazi prisoners is bad”, but that moral stance rings hollow when you started out in a fountain filled with the corpses of your comrades as the fascists execute the wounded and dying. Plus ending the campaign blasting the Soviet anthem and planting the flag is incredible